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Trump urges Americans to work harder despite spending 22% of term golfing (www.irishstar.com)
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[+] -23 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I’m not a Trump supporter in any way, but it’s not excessive.

That’s 21.7 weeks. If he went golfing on the weekend, then he still golfed less than 2 times per week.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Est. cost to taxpayers for golf since returning to office: $51,800,000

    Perhaps you would not mind paying his golf bill then.

    Edit to add: this is roughly $340,789 per day of golfing. Or over 21 years worth of pretax income for someone making minimum wages... for 1 day of golf. Meaning at minimum wages it would take you 3,200+ years to pay for what trump has golfed so far this term. Provided you only put the entirety of your paycheck to that bill.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    Not for nothing, but the headline of the article is talking about time spent golfing, and so is neon_nova's comment.

    The thing the President did isn't the problem, or really even the frequency. The problem is the cost to the taxpayer.

    '20,000 American's pay for President's golf habit' would be a better title.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He charges the government for golfing at his golf clubs

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Which includes room and board for his SS detail.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    There is a calendar on the site showing which days he was confirmed to have been golfing. There are many on the weekends, but not all, which means "work week" time was spent golfing.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Eight days so far during 'work week' time. If he was going on his own dime, this wouldn't be worth talking about.

    It just makes a better talking point to say 'he's golfed 37 days out of 152' despite it not being about how he's using his weekends (assuming we hold government to the same 5 on 2 off standard as most of us have) when it's really about how much it's costing.

    A better headline would be 'President spends income tax of 20,000 Americans on personal entertainment'.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Agreed, but the person I'm responding to made a point about weeks vs. weekends.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Yes I suppose, just like anything, a nuance here would be whether or not we expect a person of such political authority to be able to have weekends at all.

    On one hand, they're still a person working a job and no one should be working 365 days a year On the other, the societal cost, in terms of income tax covering travel and security costs, of having a President that travels every weekend is a bit much.

    If the President was only golfing on the weekends, and wasn't charging the government to golf at his own clubs, then this whole thing of him taking leisure every weekend would be a harder thing to argue against without getting into that whole administration work life balance discussion.

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