Trump Sets A Shocking Record For Laziness By Taking 5 Times More Vacation Days Than Obama

Laziness, eh? Go ahead and keep thinking that.

I don't think Pres. Trump is lazy because he's taken almost twice as many 'vacation' days as the next closest President. Let's face it, the POTUS is NEVER off the job. His Staff, the Nuclear Codes and associated system, a fully functioning Command and Control System, et al. is always with him, wherever he goes. AND all the Security people and equipment needed to protect the POTUS when he's on the road.

He's not lazy, in the common sense of the word. But he is a hypocrite.

One of the consistent criticisms he had for Pres. Obama was "the expensive golf outings he took on the taxpayer's tab". Now Pres. Trump has spent more than four times as many days on the golf course as Pres. Obama did in his first year, and doesn't appear to be at all concerned with the hypocrisy of doing so.

Oh, but Pres. Obama went to Hawaii, while Pres. Trump has only gone to Florida. Much closer. But it's not distance that accounts for the cost of a Presidential outing. It's all those other thing that go with being the President and Commander in Chief.

It's not cheap to transport the Pres./CIC, his Staff, the Nuclear Codes and associated system, a fully functioning C and C System, et al. AND all the Security people and equipment needed to protect the POTUS when he's on the road.

Pres Trump's responsibilities don't go away when he takes time off--"Rocket Man" for example doesn't care that the Leader of the Free World is in Florida for the American Holidays. Pres Trump is still instantly accessible. There's never a time when he's "off the grid." Unlike a corporate CEO or a Division Commander, the doesn't have a general manager or Vice Commander that can step in and run things for a couple of weeks so he can truly take a vacation. Stupid complaint.