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Does anyone remember how much golf trump played during his first term? I seem to recall it being a lot, like maybe more than any other president.
He had more unscheduled time per day than any other president along with:
I honestly thought it was more golf, but he might just not be that athletic.
If I recall correctly, it was literally a full year of his "presidency."
I meant to reply to you with this comment. https://sopuli.xyz/comment/14793507
So not quite a year... but not far off from it.
And he spent more in 4 years on golf than I have made in my entire life time.
Roughly 50x the average lifetime earnings of people with master’s degrees
That seems like an awful lot of government waste, maybe someone should look into that.
I think they even made a new department for that. I bet that waste will be resolved in no time!
That's a very good point. And it makes me genuinely sick to my stomach.
fun fact he was also charging the USS for the use of his facilities at the same time, so hes double dipping.
261 rounds across a single term, but not more than any other president. Woodrow Wilson played somewhere around 1000-1200 games according to different sources I read. Still, it's definitely worth noting that Trump's golfing this term has already cost more than some of Musk's cullings, to the tune of around $10.7 million.
There's a great website here. The information you're looking for is at the bottom.
320days for his 4-year term, and people were accusing obama did more. and yes hes cheating at most of them anyways. there was interceding period where trump did nothing after his major tax cuts, not until the pandemic hit, where hes was confirming judges left and right.
The bigger problem was the piece of shit profiting off of it.
I'm always very confused by the appeal of golf. I still don't get it.