There are a lot more important things to be upset about than how Trump spends his leisure time, but since he made such a big deal about how much time President Obama spent playing golf, let’s take a look at what he’s doing on his time off.
Before Donald Trump became president, he sent several dozen tweets criticizing then-President Barack Obama for playing golf. “I just want to stay in [the] White House [and] work my ass off,” he told reporters in February 2016. That November, Trump acknowledged that he would play golf as president, but said he would “always play with leaders of countries and people who can help us.”
Since becoming president, Trump has played a lot of golf. Specifically, he has made six trips to the golf course in 30 days. This has caused some people to suggest Trump might be a hypocrite. The White House, which seems sensitive to those allegations, has responded by keeping the press and the public in the dark about Trump’s golfing ― sometimes literally, like on Feb. 11, when administration officials made an AP reporter wait in a room with black plastic over the windows while the president played golf.
Trump’s golfing this weekend was similarly secret. Late Sunday afternoon, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a top White House press aide, told reporters Trump had played “a couple of holes” Saturday and Sunday.
It was more than a couple, and it wasn’t all with world leaders: Trump played 18 holes on Sunday with pro golfer Rory McIlroy, who’s ranked third in the world; sports agent Nick Mullen; and Richard Levine, a Trump friend, donor and frequent golf partner, McIlroy told golf blog No Laying Up.
So why should anyone get worked up about what Trump does on the weekends? Well, for one thing, he made a yuge deal about President Obama’s love of the links and now he’s just fine — if not a bit touchy — with it. Which shows that old golf adage to be true: if someone will lie about their golf game, they’ll lie about anything.
Not unusual to lie about your golf game, but when does the real work of being President get done? Not in the late night when he’s getting his foreign policy from Tucker Carlson and working his phone with his thumbs. Not when he’s schmoozing with members of his private club (don’t call it the Winter White House, please). Not when he’s off being stroked by crowds wearing his red caps in a pre-re-election rally with the Presidential plane as a prop. The results of his daily routines show in the numbers: 34 appointments out of the 5 hundred plus that will need confirmation. No plan for a re-do of the ACA. No plan for a budget submission. Our President is a walking talking example of HDAD and stupid besides.