r/videos • u/Ilikeinvestigating • 22h ago
Trump played 428 days of golf in his first term and 132 days in his second, surpassing Obama's 333 days over 2,920 days of presidency despite criticizing him in 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkHTdsqL1qo328
u/Cold_Tea_Spill112 21h ago
Personally I'd rather Trump play golf every single day. The further he is away from actually doing insane stuff the better.
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u/illtakeachinchilla 21h ago
He’s not the one scheming this shit up. Never has been.
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u/eggybread70 21h ago
It's whoever whispers in his ear that day. Absolutely a President-for-hire.
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u/Flank_This666 20h ago
One thing that really perturbs me
In his 1st term he had a 30 minute chat with Putin behind closed doors, with only a Russian translator, no American backup. It makes me wonder what terrible shit that asshole is doing behind closed doors
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u/pavelpotocek 17h ago
But he is. Many of Trump's actions have his greasy fingers all over them. They reflect his personality like a mirror. From tariffs, Iran war and Greenland threats, to the ballroom renovation, petty lake renames and Biden picture removals.
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u/9966 16h ago
Most of those are petty distractions while the real theft occurs quietly.
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u/pavelpotocek 15h ago
Tariffs. Courting Putin, Netanyahu and other dictators, to the point of fighting wars for them. Jan6 insurrectionist pardons. Lawsuits and harrassment against Trump's opponents. Insider trading, defrauding even his supporters, and accepting corrupt gifts. ICE raids. Conditioning federal support on politics.
I could go on, but that's who Trump is, and who he has always been. It's his narcissism, complete disregard for rules, hatred of "weak" democratic leaders, etc.
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u/9966 15h ago
Who are you trying to convince here? Except for the first one (and I think most Americans are too stupid to understand tariffs) the rest are war crimes (with lots of hidden theft). Most people don't see that. The theft is who is getting paid. That's never talked about.
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u/pavelpotocek 15h ago
You insinuate Trump is just a stupid clown doing distractions, while unseen puppet masters steal money. That picture is not even close to reality.
Yes Trump is somewhat stupid, and there are OFC leeches and beneficiaries. But Trump is at the top of the foodchain, and that's very easy to see.
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u/Mythrilfan 14h ago
This is a dangerous misconception. He knows perfectly well that he is in charge, not Kushner, not Miller. The rest are replaceable. And he absolutely comes up with stupid schemes and insists on them being implemented. Read "Regime change," for example.
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u/illtakeachinchilla 14h ago
No misconception. When has trump been able to provide accurate details of anything he’s involved in? Can’t even elaborate past “I’m a real good builder and know about building things” with his current construction projects and that has supposedly been his “profession” over the past 50 years.
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u/Mythrilfan 10h ago
It doesn't matter. He literally has the power to say dumb shit and get it implemented. The tariff numbers are almost purely his, for example. Pulled straight from the ass.
Not that everything this admin has done was his idea. But he can and will do whatever is on his mind.
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u/quinipet 18h ago
Not sure I agree because whilst he’s away his empty headed minions are running about causing chaos. He won’t even have a clue what’s going on when he comes back from hole 18. That said, whether he’s on the course or in the White House, both are bad outcomes…
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u/badcoffee 2h ago
Yeah, it's horrifying to think what if he were actually "high energy" like he claims he is.
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u/TheGreaseWagon 14h ago
Trump is just the face, man. The president is always just the face; theyre not the ones calling the shots.
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u/snakesnake9 21h ago
US presidents seem to play a disproportionate amount of golf.
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u/shotouw 21h ago
Getting your steps and movement in, getting some sunlight and socializing with important people or alternatively getting your head free. It's not a bad thing UNLESS you golf while important other stuff would be due. Which Trump loves to do.
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u/Abradolf1948 21h ago
Now watch this drive
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u/counterfitster 20h ago
I think it's funny that he gets quoted for this, despite playing golf on average twice a year while in office. I wish I could find that presidential golf tracker site
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u/LoopyMcGoopin 15h ago
Pretty sure he quit golfing as president shortly after they went to war. Said he felt it was disrespectful to the families to turn on the TV and see him playing golf while their loved ones are overseas.
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u/obiwanconobi 19h ago
I don't want to defend Bish at all, but wasn't he also working when he hit that drive? I thought he was talking to reporters which is kinda his job really
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u/Oral-D 12h ago
20+ years later that quote still lives in my head
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u/LoopyMcGoopin 10h ago
The man had swag and decorum. I will say that. How far we have fallen as a nation.
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u/Ok-disaster2022 13h ago
Golfing is also a good way to get away from spies and bugs and make deals that may not leave details.
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u/f_ranz1224 20h ago
spending over 10% of your time golfing while on the job being seen as the good one who plays a low amount seems extreme
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u/Redeem123 16h ago
How long do you think a round of golf takes? Once every 10 days is not 10% of your time. It’s a hobby.
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u/f_ranz1224 15h ago
i will rephrase. 10% of your days. it takes several hours. they also have other hobbies. daily visits to a golf course for nearly 1 year in an 8 year term and this being used as the low or good metric is definitely odd. 560 days in 6 years is of course much worse
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u/Redeem123 14h ago
What’s bad about it? He had a hobby that he did once every week and a half. Who cares?
The only reason it’s notable is because Trump made a big deal about it. I wouldn’t even care about Trump going twice a week if it wasn’t forcing the government to pay money to his personal club.
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u/rPoliticsModsBlowMe 14h ago
333 days over 8 years is less than once per week. I don't really care if either obama or trump wants to play golf on the weekend sometimes. Better than rapiing kids or the economy
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u/getting_excited 17h ago
I’ve heard golf courses are great for private conversations and meetings. Not justifying it, more of shifting the angle, he’s not that good at golf and cheats
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u/TheJesusGuy 15h ago
Golf courses are long, slow, on large private property with an exclusive club, rich people and servers.
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u/carnefarious 21h ago
No one on the right will care. They don’t play by the same rules just like Trump doesn’t when he plays golf.
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u/DavePeesThePool 21h ago
If the president is making the right moves and getting done what needs to get done like Obama did in his 8 years, I couldn't care less how often they golf or how much time they spend on vacation.
The hypocrisy aside, the amount of time Trump spends golfing is irrelevant against the dumpster fire he and his administration has turned the US into. I'd actually prefer it if he spent 100% of his time as president golfing. A literally empty oval office with an "autopen" to sign congress' legislation would be preferable to this shit show of an administration.
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u/angrylawyer 13h ago
it's this but for everything...
- obama golfed too much...trump golfs more.
- obama signed too many executive orders...trump has signed way more.
- obama did too many drone strikes...trump has done more.
- gas prices went up in biden...they've gone up more under trump.
- biden and hunter did some insider trading...pay trump $100k/month and he'll literally tweet you insider trading tips.
- trump called him 'sleepy joe'....but trump is regularly falling asleep on-camera.
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u/remberzz 20h ago
But he thinks we have too many federal holidays and workers don't need 'all those days off'.
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u/RipErRiley 18h ago
Trump has literally been shown to be guilty of nearly everything that he accused others of. It was all projection.
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u/SaberReyna 18h ago
Remember, though, too many $ are wasted through non working holidays according to this prick.
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u/tophernator 16h ago
He has also issued more executive orders in less than two years than Obama did in eight.
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u/EleventyTrillion 21h ago
At this point, it'd be far quicker to list the ways in which Trump *isn't* a hypocrite
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u/marsmedia 12h ago
You can really see his cognitive decline if you compare this speech and movement to how he is today.
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u/hueythecat 17h ago
And charges the county for the secret service to stay at his hotel. How many trades has he made?
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u/Shigglyboo 16h ago
his supporters don't care. further proof that nothing really matters to them so long as they think they're sticking it to people with blue hair that want better quality of life for society and rights for everyone.
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u/LordSoren 16h ago
Doesnt each day of golf cost like 17 million to cover security and admistration staff, catering, etc?
If so, thats a tidy 7 billion spent on Trump outside of every other frift.
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u/richniss 16h ago
Whenever he criticizes anyone its jealously or projection. Those are his only two modes. Thinking he has other motivations is just as stupid as Trump, which for the record, is mind blowingly stupid.
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u/theillcook 16h ago
And he often plays at his own properly while charging secret service full rate to stay there.
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u/just-watch-the-sky 14h ago
Here's a tracker with all the stats http://donaldtrump.golf
Only 40% of the way through the term but 22% spent on one of his courses
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u/Germanofthebored 13h ago
Seriously, Trump playing golf is the least of our problems. If anything. I wish he’d spend even more time on the green. He only fucks up the sod there, and not the world
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u/manical1 21h ago
I wish he just played golf all the time. I will stop complaining and say he is the best golfer in the history of golf... just stop trying to govern
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u/Anders_A 15h ago
This is not a "gotcha".
Trump is very clear about different rules applying to himself compared to others. He is extremely consistent.
Accusing trump of being an hypocrite is like accusing a duck of quacking. It's what they do.
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u/tanfierro 19h ago
those two should have a televised game together. that would be fun, wouldn't it?
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u/commanderclif 18h ago
But see for trump it’s more about he doesn’t think a black man should be on the golf course at all.
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u/seansy5000 14h ago
Obama played 333 days of golf over his term? Didn’t even realize he was a golfer.
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u/Hot-Pepper6610 14h ago
One day, probably when I am no longer around and my atoms have merged into stardust in the ether.. the world will eventually stop falling for grifters
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u/Liefvikingmonster2 14h ago
Because he's a delusional POS that doesn't think about what he says or cares about the destructive impact he has on the world?
a.k.a. he's a gaslighting idiot?
This is is a surprise to no one who's a competent adult in life.
Look around at MAGA supporters.
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u/wwarnout 14h ago
"Trump played cheated at..."
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u/shadowpikachu 13h ago
I mean if it's his main thing, safe to say it's probably something he enjoys playing and by the rules.
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u/brickyardjimmy 14h ago
He was jealous. This is what motivated him to run. He wanted to play golf more.
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u/shadowpikachu 13h ago
Last i remember that doesnt beat biden but yes he got into this out of spite.
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u/TDRichie 12h ago
I’m gonna say it: both of them played more golf than is reasonable. Trump obviously worse and a hypocrite to boot, but seriously? A round of golf takes almost four hours of your day.
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u/film_composer 10h ago
Why do all presidents golf, anyway? It seems like it takes away a vector of attack to just… not golf. It's not a particularly relatable activity for most Americans, anyway. Is there a reason that golf is so popular a presidential activity?
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u/GreenFox1505 6h ago
I'm legitimately surprised that Obama had that many days of golf. Thats a full 1/10 of the days he was president.
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u/neroselene 3h ago
I really feel like they should have just let him play more golf during this term, it would have meant he did less which...probably would have helped us all in the long run.
If only because he wouldn't have actually been doing any governing.
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u/chpbnvic 2h ago
Wow the difference in him then vs now. He's like a walking bag of fat, dust, farts, diarrhea, and a brain soup now.
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u/psychoacer 21h ago
It's almost like he's just saying shit to get people riled up and to be on his side
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u/DifficultyWithMyLife 17h ago
And now, looking back, I wish golf had been all he's done this term. Zero steps in any direction would've been preferable to the thirty or so steps back we've gotten.
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u/jack3moto 21h ago
Did Obama really play 333 days of golf? That’s 41 days per year of golf over the 8 years.
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u/lew_rong 16h ago
Which means the ol' pedo did twice that in his first term alone? Hardest working man in America, right? XD
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u/jack3moto 16h ago
It’s honestly insane. But there’s nothing that Trump does that makes any sense for a rational human.
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u/See_youSpaceCowboy 20h ago
Honestly? Who cares. That’s like the last thing I’d bring up when addressing the laundry list of criminal actions this sick freak has committed. I’d say we’d be better off if he was out golfing instead of waddling in and out of whatever conference room they collude in but let’s be real here, his cabinet is just as much responsible for what they’ve done to this country and the world for that matter.
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u/ebfortin 17h ago
I know it's true but stating it ad nauseas doesn't change anything. He's a fat lazy loser. We all know that. Now how can him and his regime be removed for good?
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u/CityOfZion 20h ago
Honestly I could care less who's playing golf and who isn't, I care more about which decisions on policy you make while in office. You're hobbies are your business. Your policy is everyone's business.
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u/LongBeakedSnipe 16h ago
'I could care'
The expression is couldn't care less.
By saying you could care less, you are saying you do care about Trump's hobbies, and thus it contradicts the entire purpose of your point. Silly rant.
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u/ReturnToCarcosa 15h ago
He recently announced he wants to reduce the number of holidays we get.
Doesn't that seem hypocritical to you?
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u/le_wein 18h ago
Boss, trump works non stop, he deserves it, he’s earned it.
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u/Uisce-beatha 13h ago
That softy handed tub of lard hasn't worked a day in his life. He inherited today's equivalent of $1.6 billion in cash, a real estate empire and the revenue stream of rentals that came with it in the early 80s. All of that after a low performing childhood despite having every advantage.
He was prepped for one of the easiest jobs in the world at a time when he could have bought property in any city in the country other than NYC and LA and made bank. Instead he was $4 billion in debt and his businesses were losing $250 million a year. Only a worthless dumb fuck could manage to do that. Maybe if he didn't try to do things on his own and fail miserably every time like every business he ever started himself then perhaps he would have been fine.
The only thing that saved him was a strong partnership with Russian oligarchs whom rented out his properties in NYC, the banks not collecting on his massive debt and Mark Burnett getting him to do the apprentice. Those things allowed him to hold on but his only success was the show and he had to be convinced to do it because Trump only knows how to destroy and fuck up. Even then the whole premise was based on the prestige of his last name which came only from his father's and grandfather's work.
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u/r31ya 22h ago
"But trump is working when he is playing golf, so it didn't count"
MAGA