Cost of State Dinners

…The cost of state dinners, paid for by the State Dept., ran about $250,000 to 300,000 (in constant 2000 dollars) from the time of Reagan through Bush43.

Then came Barky, whose average expenditure was over a million. That average doesn't include the $3,000,000 extravaganza he threw for Mexico…

Good summation of relative costs.