Trump said at an August 2016 campaign rally that he may never see his properties again if he was elected, explaining, “Because I’m going to be working for you, I’m not going to have time to go play golf.” And in an October 2016 speech, Trump said Obama’s struggles to pass legislation were a result of excessive golfing. He played more golf last year than Tiger Woods,” Trump said at a December 2015 campaign rally. Two-hundred-fifty rounds – that’s more than a guy who plays on the PGA Tour plays. He promised that he would be different as president. Trump, now lashing out against criticism of his own golfing, was a vocal critic of Obama’s golfing. Trump’s history of criticizing Obama’s golfing In addition to the promotional value of these trips by a president, Trump’s company has generated hundreds of thousands in revenue from charges to the Secret Service, according to Washington Post reporting. It’s also worth noting that Trump’s trips – like his Saturday and Sunday visits to the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia – have almost exclusively been to resort properties and golf courses his company owns. Trump, conversely, has been at a golf club once every 4.92 days so far. In other words, Obama played golf once every 8.77 days as president. Obama played 333 rounds during his eight years as president, according to Knoller. Through this point in his first presidential term, Obama had made three vacation trips to his birth state of Hawaii for a total of 29,978 miles in the air, Knoller tweeted, while Trump has made 30 trips to Palm Beach, Florida, the home of Mar-a-Lago, for a total of 51,540 miles. Mass and brunch online: My new Sunday by Michelle Krupa.French villagers find parallels with World War II by Jim Bittermann.When social distancing extends to the birth of your child by Saskya Vandoorne.A flash of normalcy in Washington is jarring in these times by Dana Bash.London holds its breath by Nick Paton Walsh.And Trump’s own golf-related “carbon footprint” has been bigger than Obama’s even if you count only air travel. Regardless, it is clear that Trump has spent more time golfing than Obama. And some of Trump’s rounds, like when he plays with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, mix leisure with official business. Since Trump and his aides often refuse to confirm that he actually played golf during a visit to a golf club, even when he has been spotted in golf attire, it is not possible to definitively say how many times Trump has golfed as President. By contrast, Knoller said, Trump has spent all or part of 248 days at a golf course.ĬNN’s own count has Trump at 266 days spending some time at a Trump golf course. Obama played 98 rounds of golf through this point in his presidency, according to data provided to CNN by Mark Knoller, a veteran CBS News White House correspondent who is known for tracking presidential activities. Just Trump’s airplane trips to his Mar-a-Lago Club and residence in Florida, from which he has often taken a motorcade ride to a nearby golf course he owns, have required far more air travel than Obama’s once-a-year Hawaii vacations did through this point in the term. “Barack was always playing golf,” he said in one of his five golf-related tweets.įacts First: Trump has spent much more time playing golf than Obama did through this point of the term – after repeatedly attacking Obama’s golfing and claiming he would not play if he got elected himself. What did that do to the so-called Carbon Footprint?” (CNN, among other outlets, did note that it was his first golf outing since March 8.) Trump also accused the media of failing to talk about “all of the time Obama spent on the golf course, often flying to Hawaii in a big, fully loaded 747, to play. Trump denounced the media, which he called “sick with hatred and dishonesty,” for supposedly failing to mention that Saturday was his first time golfing in three months. Criticized for golfing twice on a Memorial Day weekend during which the US coronavirus death toll approached 100,000, President Donald Trump responded Sunday and Monday by drawing attention, again, to former President Barack Obama’s golfing.
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