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      With the amount he plays golf, you’d think he’d be better at it, but apparently he’s a chronic cheat at that as well.

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      I’m not a Trump supporter in any way, but it’s not excessive.

      That’s 21.7 weeks. If he went golfing on the weekend, then he still golfed less than 2 times per week.

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        Est. cost to taxpayers for golf since returning to office: $51,800,000

        Perhaps you would not mind paying his golf bill then.

        Edit to add: this is roughly $340,789 per day of golfing. Or over 21 years worth of pretax income for someone making minimum wages… for 1 day of golf. Meaning at minimum wages it would take you 3,200+ years to pay for what trump has golfed so far this term. Provided you only put the entirety of your paycheck to that bill.

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          Not for nothing, but the headline of the article is talking about time spent golfing, and so is neon_nova’s comment.

          The thing the President did isn’t the problem, or really even the frequency. The problem is the cost to the taxpayer.

          ‘20,000 American’s pay for President’s golf habit’ would be a better title.

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        There is a calendar on the site showing which days he was confirmed to have been golfing. There are many on the weekends, but not all, which means “work week” time was spent golfing.

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          Eight days so far during ‘work week’ time. If he was going on his own dime, this wouldn’t be worth talking about.

          It just makes a better talking point to say ‘he’s golfed 37 days out of 152’ despite it not being about how he’s using his weekends (assuming we hold government to the same 5 on 2 off standard as most of us have) when it’s really about how much it’s costing.

          A better headline would be ‘President spends income tax of 20,000 Americans on personal entertainment’.

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            Agreed, but the person I’m responding to made a point about weeks vs. weekends.

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              Yes I suppose, just like anything, a nuance here would be whether or not we expect a person of such political authority to be able to have weekends at all.

              On one hand, they’re still a person working a job and no one should be working 365 days a year On the other, the societal cost, in terms of income tax covering travel and security costs, of having a President that travels every weekend is a bit much.

              If the President was only golfing on the weekends, and wasn’t charging the government to golf at his own clubs, then this whole thing of him taking leisure every weekend would be a harder thing to argue against without getting into that whole administration work life balance discussion.

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        He actually said at his most recent press conference that he’s upset because he hasn’t been golfing for the last three weeks.

  • Let's Go 2 the Mall!@lemmy.world
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    meh, I did the quiet quit thing a long time ago. not working harder without a nice raise. I’m urging Americans to work less. go on! take that day off! you can do it!

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        They could also have voting day on a fucking sunday like the rest of us. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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        ahaha… good one. Maybe they will go vote if they get a free burger with fries. Or tacos… 😂🤣😂

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    The other 78% he reneges on nuclear agreements in place since a decade and threatens war on the behalf of a country that starts with I, probably the Ivory Coast, or maybe Iceland, to blow up another country that starts with I, maybe Italy.

    Maybe he sees all these Is and thinks “Yeah, I’m awesome.”

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    Look at that 275lb (320?) bag of piss wrapped up in a cheap looking 10k suit shitting his pants. Nubby little fingers. Weird nubby mushroom member (this is from a a legal deposition)

    Clearly demented and so insecure he can’t even ask for help.

    Dude is in over his head.

    The stress is gonna kill him. He knows it that’s why he’s not working.

    He is not looking healthy

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      I hope you’re right, but I think like Putin he lives on pure motivated hatred and spite.

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          I feel like the despicable you are and the more people hate you, the longer you live. That certainly explains Kissinger and other real life villains

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          Evil sustains. Not sure why and science has yet to yield answers. One of the Rothschilds would get continued organ transplants to sustain his life, often from organ donors who did not know they were organ donors, usually from third-world countries.

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      If he’s angry, he doesn’t look that bad. If he’s just listening, he doesn’t look great, almost deflated looking.

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    wrong

    given he only complains about juneteenth, he is saying that black people should work harder.

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    His base legit acts like a class of peasants for this man. It is the most insane thing to watch in real time.

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    Incentivize it, you living malediction. Expand healthcare to allow more hours, increase overtime pay, make it easier to start a business, personally turn a few billionaires into pulp within a massive stadium housing solely seats, cameras, screens, a long spool of rope, and a single woodchipper. Frankly, these aren’t big asks.

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      I think one of those industrial grinders that grind up engines and stuff would be even better. Just run it at extra slow speed as you lower them in.

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        Run some salt rocks through first, so the blades are nice and blunt, chipped and salty. Salt because we don’t want to wait for them to get rusty…

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      For real. You’d think the black hole of failure that Drumph and his billionaire cabinet are, would be the death knell for the fucking prosperity bible. Woodchip them all !!