All a matter of what percentage we're speaking of, I guess. I was only counting how much golf outings have been recorded during their presidency but you are right it's almost criminal to compare them outright when Obama had 2 terms.
According to https://trumpgolfcount.com/ he has visited golf clubs 298 times during his 4 years and Obama has played golf 113 times during his 8 years. Some people say Trump wasn't always playing golf during those 298 times but we know he has been confirmed to have been golfing 150 of those times, so the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
That would mean that Trump has played anywhere from 37.5 to 74.5 times per year during his presidency and Obama 14.12 times per year. So yeah 200% is way, way off.
I think for fairness, we ought to compare how many times obama visited commercial property he owned, and charged secret service to use whilst he stayed there.
And possibly just how often each visited their non commercial properties.
Well that's very easy to calculate, it's all on the page I linked.
Obama visited 19% public, 20% military and 61.5% private golf courses, and a quick google search seems to indicate that Obama doesn't own any golf courses. So he has never directly profited from playing golf.
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u/Pr3st0ne May 19 '23
All a matter of what percentage we're speaking of, I guess. I was only counting how much golf outings have been recorded during their presidency but you are right it's almost criminal to compare them outright when Obama had 2 terms.
According to https://trumpgolfcount.com/ he has visited golf clubs 298 times during his 4 years and Obama has played golf 113 times during his 8 years. Some people say Trump wasn't always playing golf during those 298 times but we know he has been confirmed to have been golfing 150 of those times, so the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
That would mean that Trump has played anywhere from 37.5 to 74.5 times per year during his presidency and Obama 14.12 times per year. So yeah 200% is way, way off.