anyway. Remember how Donald Trump laid into Barack Obama for spending so many
weekends playing golf? ‘Can you
believe that, with all the problems and difficulties facing the US, President Obama spent the
day playing golf. Worse than Carter,’ the then businessman said in 2014.
Well, someone has
Well, someone has
worked out the amount of time Trump himself spends on the course. In October, that would
be… every weekend. And out of 282 days in office so far, 76 were spent at his golf
properties, according to NBC’s tracker – more than one in three of every day he’s been
Commander in Chief. This Sunday he went to his club the Trump National Golf Club in
Virginia for the fourth weekend in a row. The time before that, he couldn’t make it as he was
busy with the Presidents Cup golf tournament in New Jersey.
Politfact calculates that by the
Politfact calculates that by the
same stage his his presidency, Obama had spent 22 days playing golf as opposed to
Trump’s 29.
However, Trump’s administration are often
However, Trump’s administration are often
reluctant to confirm whether the President has played golf at his residences, saying he
spends a lot of his time there doing work. Many presidents play golf as a way to switch off
from the demands of the job. But if that’s the plan, maybe don’t campaign on the fact you
won’t.
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