410
Trump urges Americans to work harder despite spending 22% of term golfing
(www.irishstar.com)
And it has a TACO index. Perfect. xD
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.
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.
He charges the government for golfing at his golf clubs
He actually said at his most recent press conference that he's upset because he hasn't been golfing for the last three weeks.
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.
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'.
Agreed, but the person I'm responding to made a point about weeks vs. weekends.
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.
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
If he's angry, he doesn't look that bad. If he's just listening, he doesn't look great, almost deflated looking.
If he's just pretending* to listen
Ftfy. Everyone knows he never listens.
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.
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.
For anyone keeping count, that's about a day and a half per week.
They did the math!
Given how worker production increasing over time and pay for said production have not stood in line with each other I think I’d rather not.
Frankly, I'd really rather that the Irish Star not encourage him to be spending more time making policy.
I hate articles like this. You know weekends are 28% of days right? Can we report on real crazy shit Trump has done instead of these performative outrages?
I thought the amount of time he golfs would be higher. Every time he golfs we pay the taco when he stays at his properties.
Of course, Trump is the biggest business idiot in the country. He was largely elected because he is the big, dumb mascot of business idiots.
I keep seeing Ed's site posted everywhere and we need to promote the HELL out of him!!! It seems he is the only person actually making sense today. I send his articles to everyone I know and urge them to read it.
Honestly he should golf more
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.
Hope be chokes on his KFC. I’ll go celebrate by eating… KFC
No thanks, I'm good.
His base legit acts like a class of peasants for this man. It is the most insane thing to watch in real time.
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."
This monster feeds on media attention. Let's all stop relating every stupid things he says and focus on basically anything else, it will always be more positive.
I realize this is not the onion but does anyone have a different source?
This looks fake
wrong
given he only complains about juneteenth, he is saying that black people should work harder.
Yeah, his comment was most definitely targeted.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2025
410 points (99.3% liked)
Not The Onion
17075 readers
460 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Please also avoid duplicates.
Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS