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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 25 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

No, I don’t think so.

Biden golfed a total of nine times.

Obama spent 3% of his time golfing.

Trump, 22-25%, depending on the source.

This is crazy shit, a dictator stating people should work harder while spending 1/4th of his time on the course. The presidency isn’f supposed to get weekends off.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 0 points 29 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago) (1 children)

Biden golfed a total of nine times.

Biden & Obama weren't a golfer though... so looking at just golf is dumb for them.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/15/us-news/biden-took-off-577-days-in-4-years-tops-modern-era-presidents/

Biden’s out-of-office ratio far surpasses time off taken by Trump — who spent 26% of his first term away from Washington, D.C. — 381 of his 1,461 days in office, records show.

Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama vacationed for just 11% of their two-term presidencies — and workhorse Jimmy Carter took only 79 days of breaks, accounting for 5% of his single term in office.

Obama was low, Biden was stupid high. Trump is in the middle here.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 0 points 9 minutes ago* (last edited 5 minutes ago) (1 children)

The article discussed golf. I replied with golf. It’s apples to apples. You want to butwhatabout the rest of the time? Ok.

Fuck the NY Post. Just another sensationalist rag. If you want to be taken seriously, find a source that isn’t a right wing mouthpiece.

In contrast,The Washington Post, which used White House pool reports, reports that Biden spent 256 days on vacation or at one of his homes in Delaware through May 22, 2023.

Former President Donald Trump spent a little over a quarter of his presidency, around 380 of his1,461 days in office on personal trips.

Trump's time out of office earned a of media attention because he spent most of his time away, around 250 days, at properties he owned -- and would therefore financially benefit from by his presence -- during his presidency.

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However, Snopes comprehensively analyzed the former president's public calendar, research from his administration and pool reports — detailed daily dispatches from the White House press corps tracking Biden's movements — and found that the RNC's claim was inaccurate. It is difficult to define what a "vacation" is for a president, given that a president is never away from duties. Therefore, Snopes determined how many days he was in a vacation setting

Based on this definition, Biden spent 117 or 118 full days of his 1,461-day presidency (Jan. 20, 2021 to Jan. 20, 2025) on vacation, or about 8% of his presidency. He also spent 66 days, about 4.5% of his presidency, partially in a vacation setting.

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[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 1 points 6 minutes ago* (last edited 51 seconds ago)

So then you admit that

Biden golfed a total of nine times.

Is a bullshit comparison then?

Edit: Interesting that you trust snopes.

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/snopes

NY post is effective the same , but other direction. So if my source is unusable then so is yours.
https://www.allsides.com/news-source/new-york-post

But still... your source says way more than 9 days out of office... and certainly not all that far away from trumps numbers at best.