because golf is 'important'

[rae121452]

.This from the Washington Examiner.


Joe Biden, frequent Delaware vacationer, doesn’t have time for your stupid border

President Joe Biden still hasn’t been to the U.S.-Mexico border, where a humanitarian crisis of his administration's own making has raged for the past several months. He is just too darn busy, the president explained Thursday evening during a town hall event hosted by CNN.

Yes, all presidents are busy. But not all presidents make two dozen trips to Delaware over the span of 10 months.


As of this writing, Biden is scheduled to spend yet another weekend at his home in Delaware. This marks his 20th such trip since becoming president, according to former CBS News reporter Mark Knoller.

In total, Biden has visited Delaware 24 times since January.

The president has also done 10 weekends at the presidential retreat at Camp David, according to Breitbart’s Charlie Spiering.

“Biden enjoys leaving the White House on Friday and returning home on Monday, following a similar schedule that he enjoyed as a U.S. senator,” Spiering notes. “Instead of riding Amtrak, Biden utilizes the presidential Marine One helicopter to fly back and forth from Washington, D.C.”


Yes indeed, what a difference a day makes.

Donald Trump took weekends off to go to Maralago and play golf... tens of thousands of dollars just to fly back and forth. Not a peep from the right-wingers!

"I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to go play golf." --Donald J. Trump, August, 2016

TRUMP GOLF COUNT: 298*

Cost to Taxpayer: About $149,000,000

*Daytime visits to golf clubs since inauguration, with evidence of playing golf on at least 150 visits. Our last recorded outing was on December 30, 2020. Click on complete data table for a list of Trump's outings, or view our breakdown of total costs.

Days Trump has spent at Mar a Lago:127

Cost of flights to Mar a Lago (31 so far):*~$60,138,000

Days Trump has spent at Bedminster:86

Cost of flights to Bedminster (27 so far):*~$23,515,500

Trump has visited his clubs once every this many days since his inauguration:5.9

Projected visits to golf clubs in four years:249

Projected visits in eight years:498

Total times Obama played golf during his eight year Presidency:306

 

[jomar]

And trump billed the the US for the SS room and board.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Speaking of our senile President, it turns out he's pro-wall after all: He's building a half-million-dollar one around his beach house. You know, one of those walls that don't work.

 

[pecksniff]

Never seen the appeal of golf. And people actually watch this boring game on television?!

 

[jomar]

Never seen the appeal of golf. And people actually watch this boring game on television?!

Yeah, can be an acquired taste. Like any sport, can be dramatic if you understand the game.

 

[YDB95]

Donald Trump took weekends off to go to Maralago and play golf... tens of thousands of dollars just to fly back and forth. Not a peep from the right-wingers!

Well, there was at least one peep. They were known to express their belief that Trump didn't spend as much time golfing as Obama had. They were wrong, but what else is new?

 

[KeithD]

Where the president is on any given day doesn't ipso facto determine whether the president is doing presidential work there or not. I don't think we're being shown much of what Biden is doing when he's in Delaware (near Washington, D.C.) (Biden commuted from there when he was in the Senate). But we got a whole lot of coverage of Trump actually golfing in places much further away from Washington, D.C., than Delaware. I was delighted that Trump was actually golfing rather than busy in the moment fucking up the United States.