Conservatives were wrong to complain about the taxpayer costs of President Barack Obama’s vacations. Likewise, liberals are wrong to complain about President Trump’s golfing costs.

HuffPost is out with a hyperventilating report that Trump’s golf trips have cost taxpayers $102 million. The report says Trump’s costs are an egregious affront to taxpayers. But here’s the problem: Trump’s travel costs are not a function of his profligacy, but rather of his position. The same principle applied to the Obama administration’s travels (which liberal media outlets surprisingly had few complaints about).