Trump set to embark on 1st vacation since inauguration (his golf weekends don't count????)

[niyad]

Trump set to embark on 1st vacation since inauguration

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump once questioned the wisdom of taking vacations. "What's the point?" he asked. But now the president is getting ready to join the annual August exodus from this town he calls "the swamp." Trump is due to set out Friday on his first extended vacation from Washington since the inauguration — a 17-day getaway to his private golf club in central New Jersey.


(1 of 1) President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport, in Morristown, N.J., en route to Washington from Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. Trump once questioned the wisdom of taking vacations. “What’s the point?” he asked. But now the president is readying to join the annual August exodus from this town he calls “the swamp.” Trump is due to set out Aug. 4 on his first extended vacation from Washington since the inauguration _ a 17-day getaway to his private golf club in central New Jersey.
August 03, 2017

The president's vacation could be driven, in part, by necessity. Everyone who works in the White House West Wing, including the Oval Office occupant himself, will be forced to clear out by week's end so that the government can replace the balky, 27-year-old heating and cooling system. But the White House hasn't been entertaining questions about the president's August plans. Asked whether Trump would be leaving Washington this month, given his recent warning that Congress should stick around until they vote on health care legislation, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday: "We'll continue to keep you guys updated on his August schedule as those details are finalized."

Trump and his supporters like to tout his disdain for taking vacations, when the truth is he takes them constantly. "Don't take vacations. What's the point? If you're not enjoying your work, you're in the wrong job," Trump wrote in his 2004 book, "Trump: Think Like a Billionaire."
He told Larry King in an interview that year that "most of the people I know that are successful really don't take vacations. Their business is their vacation. I rarely leave. You know that," Trump said. "You and I are friends. How often do you see me going away?"

Actually, Trump gets out of town quite often. So far, he has spent 13 of his 28 weekends in office away from the White House, mostly at his properties in Palm Beach, Florida, or in Bedminster, New Jersey, according to an Associated Press count. The figures include a weekend during official travel overseas, and Father's Day weekend at Camp David, the government-owned presidential retreat in Maryland. Contrast Trump's own frequent getaways with his criticism, before and during last year's presidential campaign, of former President Barack Obama's vacations and frequent golf outings. "@BarackObama played golf yesterday. Now he heads to a 10 day vacation in Martha's Vineyard. Nice work ethic," Trump tweeted in August 2011.

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[Sneederbunk]

1. Work, Work, Work.

[smirkymonkey]

2. Doesn't he ever go anywhere or do anything fun besides golf?

He has so few actual interests. Not only is he stupid and ignorant, he's boring too.

[dreamland]

3. All on taxpayers dollars.

How much has he spent on just the leisurely activities? Not to mention the time not spent on brushing up on State issues? And the secret service and advisors following him? And advisors assistants too? Oh, let's not forget the entire Rump clan in tow. There is more baggage attached to this administration in terms of manpower and expenditures than the last four Presidents combined.

[Paladin]

4. I've got mixed feelings, as usual.

Yes, trump is a hypocritical fuck-off, spending a lot more time on non-serious activities than Obama ever dreamed of. On the other hand, he's not botching things up from the Oval Office if he's out, cheating on golf.

[louis-t]

5. Right, "what's the point?" of taking vacations when

you only work 3 days a week? He was 'working' all those weekends anyway, traveling to his properties to bleed the taxpayers to pay for his golf, house and feed the secret service and his entourage and rent their golf carts and put the money in his pockets.

[Johonny]

6. Most Americans worried he might return from vacation too soon

4 years off seems just about right to me.

[Ms. Toad]

7. That's nice. He makes roughly 6 times what I make, and I'm pretty sure

works fewer than 1/3 of the hours I work.

My first vacation from the job I started in October 2013 was last fall, three years after I started. Seven months of the year I work around 15 hours a day, 7 days a week - last weekend was the final weekend of that period, so this weekend will be my first weekend I am not physically in the office (or on other office business) since December.

I'm glad Mr. nearly-every-weekend-is-an-enormous-taxpayer-paid-vacation needs a 3-week vacation after 6 monts on the job.

[niyad]

8. don't most people have to work at a job at least a year before they get a vacation?

[niyad]

9. I wonder how the people of the small community of bedminster feel about being saddled

with orange and co for three whole weeks?