Donald Trump once again has left the White House to embark on a vacation, however this time it isn’t a measly weekend getaway. Oh, no.
The Commander-in-Chief is taking presidential laziness to new levels by heading to the East Coast on a 17-day “I forgot where I work” relaxation stint. Just yesterday (August 5) The Donald promised that he’d be working mostly during the vacation, but turned around and hit the links that same afternoon just hours earlier.
What makes it so infuriating isn’t that he’s taking a vacation, although we believe he should be spending more time, you know, running the country (actually, we don’t want that either), it is because Trump is the very person who criticized Barack Obama for taking far less vacation time for himself while he was in office.
So far the 45th president has had 53 “leisure” days through August 2017 compared to Obama’s 15 through 2009. That’s like more than three times as many.
During the campaign, Trump said that he wouldn’t be taking any time off and that he’d be so busy making deals that he wouldn’t even have time for leisure.
“I would rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done,” Trump said in July 2015. “I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off. “
I’m going to be working for you,” Trump later said in August 2016. “I’m not going to have time to go play golf.”
Ummmm. Someone’s playing Pinocchio over here, and his nose is growing. Reaction from social media to Donald Trump’s newly announced 17-day vacation was expectedly angry. See some of the disappointment below.
Donald Trump said last year if he is elected he wouldn't golf or go on Vacation.
— Mhambi M. (@Mhambi_M) August 3, 2017
Taking a 17-Day Vacation
— PROUD RESISTER 👊 (@ProudResister) August 3, 2017
- Donald Trump 🤡
Not Taking a 17-Day Vacation
- The Resistance 👊
Not Taking a 17-Day Vacation
- ROBERT MUELLER 🕵🏻
Donald Trump: I'm not on vacation
— Edward Hardy (@EdwardTHardy) August 6, 2017
Also Donald Trump: pic.twitter.com/0HedghxLFv
"Most of the people I know that are successful really don't take vacations." - Donald Trump
— Ray*mond L*i (@madbarrister) August 3, 2017
"I'm going on vacation" - Donald Trump
Just a notice that #DonaldTrump is going on a vacation longer than the allowed #maternity leave of many female employees in the U.S.
— Kieran Moolchan (@kieranmoolchan) August 3, 2017
Donald Trump is going on a 17-day golf vacation, which will be a nice break from the usual 2-day golf vacation he takes every weekend.
— Spencer Robinson (@13spencer) August 3, 2017
Donald Trump is fast becoming irrelevant so he might as well go on vacation. Everyone is learning to function without him.
— John L. Roberson (@jlr_1969) August 6, 2017
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