24 February 2017

Golf: 25 hours. Foreign relations: 21 hours

Donald Trump regularly assailed President Barack Obama for playing golf, then spent the first weekends of his own presidency doing just that. He attacked Obama for using Air Force One to campaign, and did it over the weekend just a month into the job. He mocked Obama for heading out of Washington at taxpayer expense, but appears to have no qualms about doing so himself...
"Donald Trump has zero worry about contradicting himself, because he does it all day long," said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian who has met with Trump. "He figures he can get away with it because he does it all the time. There is no worry about it. He says one thing and then does another, and his supporters don't hold it against him.
"Trump said last August that if he became president, he wouldn’t have time for golf. "I'm going to be working for you, I'm not going to have time to go play golf," he said at an event in Virginia.
Text from Politico.  Infographic via Elle.

11 comments:

  1. Just wondering...Did you care how much golf the last three presidents played?

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    1. Personally I don't give a rat's ass how much time presidents spend golfing, as long as they get their work done.

      My critique is towards the blatant hypocrisy, not the time distribution.

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  2. I agree 100% Stan.
    It's the speed with which he has put the lie to all of his promises (well only the good ones) that I find disturbing.

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  3. Hmm.. from that he's working about 10 hours a day. I got that by taking 30 days a month x 24 hours a day, then subtracting out the two non-working time wedges and the golf time. That leaves 296 hours, or about 10 hours a day, for a 30 day month. Not sure if meal times are included, but I don't think so. So the dinner with Japanese PM Abe would not be included in the work times.

    Not sure if that is light or long, but its interesting.

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    1. For more discussion of details, it's best to use the primary source article at the Washington Post -

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/02/21/how-donald-trump-spent-his-first-month-in-office-by-the-numbers/

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  4. One could argue that the world is better off with Trump playing golf than doing something else.

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    1. This is when I miss Blogger not having upvotes...

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    2. I would be one of those preferring he spend his time golfing.

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  5. Robbert, that could be true if his Rasputin (Bannon) weren't busy writing executive orders and attempting to bring down the country in the shadows.

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    1. Don't forget Spicer's dance around freedom of the press today. You don't have to be the ringmaster to be part of the circus.

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  6. Vegas is running split odds: straight jacket, ambulance, resignation. What'll it be?

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