Trump vs. Obama: Golf Course Outings Piling Up Six Months Into Donald’s Presidency – Newsweek
President Donald Trump is set to breeze pastthe legacy of his predecessorBarack Obamathat is, at least when it comes to golf.
Trump officially hit the six-months-in-office milestone Thursday, and many of his 181 full days in the White House haven't actually been spentin the White House. Quite a few havebeen spent on the links.
It's tough to calculate exactly how many rounds of golf Trump has played in office. Whereas Obama was up front about when he was golfingwe know he played exactly 333 times during his eight years in officeTrump often goes to one of his golf courses and disappears for about, oh, four hours orso. (Curiously enough, that's about how long it takes to play 18 holes of golf.)
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The Trump administration has worked to keep the president'sgolfing habit under wraps. That might be because Trump used to slam Obama, over and over, about golfing while in office. "Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf," Trump tweetedin October 2014, for instance.
Later than month, he tweeted about Obama and golf yet again:"President Obama has a major meeting on the N.Y.C. Ebola outbreak, with people flying in from all over the country, but decided to play golf!"
But despite the efforts the White House makes to prevent folks from knowing if Trump is golfing, news of the president hitting the links often gets out. Sometimes the press catches wind that the president mighthit a few ballslike when he showed up to one of his Florida courses on Mother's Day wearinggolf shoesand a golf glovewhile other times he's spotted playing through the trees, like Bigfoot. Sometimes Trump makes himself known at a golf course by driving his golf cart across the greena nearly unthinkable breach of etiquetteand chatting up other players. But we stilldon't really have an official count.
It is known, however, that the presidenthas spent 40 of his 181 fulldays in office at a Trump-branded golf course. That's roughly 22 percent of his days in office. He has been to TrumpNational Bedminsterin New Jersey 14 times, Trump International West Palmin Florida 13 times, Trump National Potomac Falls near Washington, D.C., 12 timesand Trump National Jupiter in Florida once,according to NBC News'stracker. The website TrumpGolfCount.com has community-sourced a rough tracker of the president's rounds of golf and estimates he hasbeen spottedplaying golfat least 16 times.
Despite Trump's frequent complaints, Obama, comparatively speaking, spent very few days on the golf course in the early days of his presidency. And over eight years he visited a golf course on about 11.4 percent of his days as president. So, at about 22 percent, Trump is well ahead of Obama's pace on the links.
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Trump vs. Obama: Golf Course Outings Piling Up Six Months Into Donald's Presidency - Newsweek
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