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		</div><p>Donald Trump’s visit to the UK left taxpayers with a six-figure bill in entertainment and hosting costs, it has been disclosed.</p>
<p>The US President’s four-day trip cost €259,690 in venue and production costs and a further €76,104 in “entertainment”, according to figures released by the UK Foreign Office on Friday.</p>
<p>Adding in the cost of policing the visit, the UK was left with an overall bill in excess of €16.7 million.</p>
<p>Mr Trump met the British Queen at Windsor Castle and was hosted by UK Prime Minister Theresa May during the July visit, which was met by mass protest.</p>
<p>The UK Foreign Office’s bill came in at €371,229 after factoring in transport and staffing costs.</p>
<p>This was nearly twice the cost of the King of Spain’s trip a year earlier, which was for the full pomp and grandeur of a state visit, while Mr Trump’s was billed as a working visit.</p>
<p>Mr Trump’s was the priciest diplomatic trip since the president of China’s state visit in 2015, which cost about €3,400 more.</p>
<p>The US leader’s was cheaper because there was no need for translators or accommodation, while he stayed at his ambassador’s residence and his own golf resort.</p>
<p>Figures obtained by the Press Association under Freedom of Information laws previously showed policing the property mogul’s visit cost €16,451,900.</p>
<p>Thousands of officers were drafted in from every force in Britain to secure the trip, which began when Air Force One touched down at Stansted Airport on July 12.</p>
<p>Theresa May hosted Mr Trump at her Chequers country retreat and at Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill.</p>
<p>Blenheim was the setting for the black-tie dinner where it was disclosed in a firestorm of a newspaper interview that he had criticised Mrs May’s handling of Brexit and warned her plan could “kill” any UK-US trade deal.</p>
<p>Policing the visit cost so much in part because of the widespread protest against Mr Trump, which included thousands of people marching in London.</p>
<p>The UK Home Office reimbursed €9.1 million to cover the additional costs to the three forces in England that “hosted” the president – the Metropolitan Police, Thames Valley Police (TVP) and Essex Police.</p>
<p>The UK Treasury was to refund Police Scotland, which spent €3.7 million while Mr Trump played golf at his Turnberry resort in Ayrshire on both days of the “private visit”.</p>
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