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For the last two presidents, their preferred leisure time has been spent primarily playing golf. Which, again, is totally fine! Being president, in case you might not be able to guess, is a very stressful job. You need ways to blow off steam.

The problem for Trump is -- and stop me if you've heard this one before -- the fact that he was very, very outspoken about the number of rounds of golf that President Barack Obama played during his time in the White House.

And then there is the fact that Trump promised on the campaign trail that he wouldn't be golfing if he got elected president because he would be too busy cutting great deals on behalf of the American people. "I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to go play golf," Trump said in August 2016 on the campaign.

If he ever did play golf, Trump promised, he wouldn't just play with his buddies like Obama did, but rather use the golf course as a sort of outdoor board room -- playing with foreign leaders, members of Congress and the like to convince them about something or other related to the running of the country.

The point of this all is that Trump has made the bed he is currently lying in. Had he said nothing about his predecessor's leisure habits, there'd be no stories -- or, at least, a whole lot fewer stories -- about his own love of the links. But since Trump attacked Obama relentlessly for his golf outings, it's difficult to turn around and say that it mattered for Obama but not for him. Golf is just golf. But, it's a reminder that Trump doesn't really believe that what's good for the goose is good for the gander. He sees no apparent hypocrisy in railing against Obama's golf-playing while playing even more golf himself.

Welcome to the wonderful world of contradictions that is President Trump.

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Donald Trump's golf problem - CNN