Trump: The First Year

Indeed, those of us with a modicum of intelligence know that the government pays the way for President and family.

Those of us with a modicum of intelligence also know, however, that Republicans frequently criticized Obama for taking too many golf trips and vacations, kinda like this guy:

(this was pretty easy to find, BTW, by searching “zeb obama golf”)

As for the man himself Trump tweeted about Obama golfing too much something like 30 times during Obama’s Presidency. This was also a Trump talking point during his campaign: he was going to be so different from Obama, the man who worked for the people, who didn’t waste taxpayer money on vacations, who didn’t go golfing in times of crisis.

Personally, I have no problem with the President having some leisure time, and fully understand that the President and family will require Secret Service protection. Duh. It’s just funny to see a President who very frequently and specifically criticized the prior President for taking too many vacations, playing too much golf, and spending too much taxpayer money on pace to obliterate the prior guy’s spending. And equally funny to see a guy who had no problem criticizing Obama for doing so (see above) flip to “Hey, whatcha-gonna-do, politicians, amirite guys?”

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