OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In mid-August 2011, then-non-politician Donald Trump levied a critique of President Barack Obama.
‘@BarackObama played golf yesterday. Now he heads to a 10 day vacation in Martha’s Vineyard. Nice work ethic.’
This was one of dozens of tweets criticizing Obama for playing golf… It was one of a handful that also dinged Obama for taking a vacation.
On the campaign trail, Trump was adamant: He would rarely play golf — ‘I’m not going to have time to go play golf,’ he once said — and he certainly wasn’t going to take a lot of vacation. (‘There’s just so much to be done,’ he told ’60 Minutes,’ ‘so I don’t think we’ll be very big on vacations.’)
On Friday [8-4-17], Trump will head to his golf course in Bedminster, N.J., for a 17-day vacation. That’s nearly twice as long as the vacation Obama took in August during his first year in office, when he went to Martha’s Vineyard…
By our count, by the end of August, Trump will have spent all or part of 53 days in office at leisure, compared with 15 days for Obama through August 2009. What’s more, Trump will have played at least 33 rounds of golf, nearly double Obama’s 17 rounds — and that’s even before Trump gets to his vacation spot, an actual golf course.”
-Philip Bump, “By end of August, Trump will have spent three times as many days at leisure as Obama” The Washington Post online, Aug. 3, 2017 03:06pm