The New York Times reported that Trump’s outing with the Japanese prime minister actually included two rounds of golf: 18 holes at Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida, and nine holes at the President’s club in West Palm Beach. Having a great time hosting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the United States! The President confirmed one such golf outing in a Facebook post: Trump has visited his two golf courses near his Mar-a-Lago estate - Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach and Trump National Golf Course in Jupiter - six times in his first month in office.Īlthough President Trump reportedly visited a golf course six times during his first month in office, we were only able to confirm that three of those visits included his playing golf. “I’m going to be working for you, I’m not going to have time to go play golf,” Trump said at the time. Trump even suggested during a 2016 event in Virginia, in a knock on Obama, that if elected he was “not going to have time to go play golf.” One possible reason: Trump was a frequent and vocal critic of President Barack Obama’s golf habit, regularly slamming the former president for playing golf with many pressing issues before the country. President Donald Trump has made visiting his Florida golf courses a near every-weekend habit in the first month of his administration, and his aides are trying to obscure whether Trump is actually golfing during the visits. On 21 February 2017, CNN published an article about President Trump’s golf trips during his first month in office, reporting that Trump had visited a golf course six times during his first month, although it did not confirm that he played golf on each of those occasions: Trump played golf six times during his first 30 days in office. Regardless, it’s clear that Trump often criticized President Obama for playing too much golf during his time in office. The image macro did not specify which three-year span (i.e., it’s possible that Trump criticized Obama more between 20), and the terms we searched on may not have yielded all of Trump’s complaints. Trump’s gripes about Obama predate 2014, but we used that year as a beginning point since the image macro specified a three-year span. We searched Trump’s Twitter feed for the terms “golf,” “golfing,” “vacation,” and “vacationing” and found that he had complained about his predecessor’s leisure activities about 15 times between 20. However, we had a hard time verifying that Trump had issued 38 separate Twitter complaints on the subject over the last three years: Trump frequently criticized Obama during the latter’s eight years in the White House for spending too much time on vacation and on the golf course.
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