He made six visits to his ranch in Crawford, Texas, where he spent 39 days. Trump is being called a hypocrite for taking more vacation time than Obama. Others complain his travels have soaked taxpayers for travel and security expenses, and that he uses the trips to market his vacation resorts.
Trump says he's spending his time in New Jersey doing presidential business. Working in Bedminster, N. This is not a vacation - meetings and calls!
Manuel Balce Ceneta, Associated Press. Barack Obama took vacation days in eight years. Like Trump, all presidents say they work during their time away from Washington. It's too early to predict how Trump will stack up in the presidential vacation pantheon at the end of his term. But we can tell you how many days his predecessors took before they left office. And despite Trump's Twitter tirades over his vacationing, Obama took comparatively few days off.
Obama, took 29 vacation trips spanning all or part of days, according to Knoller. He also made 39 visits to Camp David, that totaled all or part of 93 days. That's a grand total of days over eight years. Many of his trips were to Martha's Vineyard, where he's pictured during a vacation.
He also made several trips to Hawaii, where he was raised. Eric Draper, Associated Press. Bush took 1, vacation days while in office. During the eight years he spent in office, George W. Bush was a more enthusiastic presidential vacationer than Obama. He also tracks how often presidents flee Washington for what he calls "vacations" — always in quotes — which he notes can never be clean breaks from the job, thanks to modern communications, which bring global crises to the presidential doorstep no matter where it happens to be.
As of August 12, , Obama has taken 20 "vacations" lasting 2 to 15 days. And the president has made 33 visits to the official Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland, totaling all or part of 84 days. At this point in George W.
Bush also frequently used the property to host world leaders. And the former Texas governor had been to Camp David times for a total of all or part of days. Bush played 24 rounds of golf as president.
He later explained his decision to stop in the fall of by saying he felt it was not appropriate to be seen golfing while American troops fought in Afghanistan and Iraq.
But Bush also drew liberal protesters against his policies — the most famous of them antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan, who pitched a camp down the road from the Crawford ranch. And Bush drew liberal scorn in August when he began a round of golf in Kennebunkport with a somber denunciation of a bus bombing in Israel. An Orange County mom has filed a police complaint after her daughter was left with a concussion from a sucker punch during a youth basketball game.
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By Lena Grossman. French Polynesia, Tetiaroa. Former President Obama takes a photo of his wife Michelle, on the top deck of the meter Rising Sun yacht where the couple and friends spent the morning off the Island of Moorea, in the South Pacific, part of French Polynesia on April 14, Related Stories.
Already a print subscriber? Go here to link your subscription. Bush visited Bush visited once with his wife and two daughters, and another time just with his wife. Obama took his wife and daughters on his trip to three African countries, at an estimated price tag of tens of millions of dollars - possibly the most expensive of his tenure.
The federal government provided all the resources, because the options in developing areas did not meet White House standards, The Post reported. That made the trip particularly costly. Clinton and Bush made similarly resource-intensive trips.
Yoho's staff did not provide a response or comment, but we will update this fact check if we receive one. There was a lot of interest at recent town halls about Trump's travels to Mar-a-Lago, and how much they are costing taxpayers. Yoho, responding to a constituent with some inaccurate information, did not make an apples-to-apples comparison of Trump's and Obama's travels in the town hall. So the two figures are not directly comparable. And while Obama's trips to Africa were costly as were the Africa trips of Bush and Clinton , he didn't go "quite a bit" when you look at his Africa trips compared with the rest of his travels as president.
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