Vacation: Is Donald Trump Spending Too Much Time Golfing?
Party Friday for 17 days of rest in his golf course in New Jersey, the American president will have had, by the end of August, two months of vacation since his inauguration.
Overwork is a plague. A fortiori - and without laughing - when leading the world's leading power. But is Donald Trump protecting himself more than reason? Since Friday, the President of the United States is officially on vacation: he has planned 17 days of escape to Bedminster, New Jersey, where one of the golf courses he owns is located.
If we add to this his past stays at his property in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, the American head of state will have granted himself, by the end of August, 53 days of rest since his arrival. to the White House. According to a calculation made by the Washington Post, this is almost triple what his predecessor, Barack Obama, had allowed himself in 2009, on the eve of his first term.
The sprinkler watered
As we knew long before his victory in November 2016, the former real estate mogul is passionate about golf. Like many other tenants of the White House, by the way. This does not prevent all American observers from judging their president far too idle. Especially since, as CNN recalls, Donald Trump did not cease, under the Obama administration, to criticize his predecessor when he took a few days of vacation.
In December 2013, the Republican mocked the president who, at the time, flew to his native land, Hawaii ... for 17 days of rest.
Less than a year later, Donald Trump denounces a Barack Obama deciding - according to his words - to play golf instead of managing the Ebola virus which threatened to spread in New York. In all, the Washington Post lists a dozen similar tweets.
Another problem is the fact that the billionaire claims during his campaign that he "[would] rarely leave the White House, because there is so much work to be done."
But the natural has returned at a gallop. Insatiable golfer, Donald Trump has already completed 34 sessions on the green since his induction on January 20, not to mention those he will indulge in in New Jersey. His preachers can, however, be reassured by reading the statistics of George W. Bush, president from 2001 to 2009: over the first 196 days of his presidency, as the CNN site reminds us, the Republican head of state spent 67 ( more than a third) in its various resorts. Unbeatable.
