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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump takes vacation from mounting scandals to spend entire month of August golfing
Friday, July 21st, 2017
Trump takes vacation from mounting scandals to spend entire month of August golfing
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By Oliver Willis | July 21, 2017
Donald Trump is taking almost all of August off to enjoy a luxury vacation at his golf club resort in New Jersey.
(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Donald Trump will be taking the month of August off to relax and frolic at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
A notice filed by the FAA and highlighted by Times Zeke Miller advises that from August 3-20, flight restrictions will be in place over the area, due to Trump. In the past, these notices have been issued in advance of Trump trips to the area.
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His taxpayer-funded luxury travel also serves to advertise the Trump properties and enrich Trump, since he has not followed tradition and divested as other presidents did from their financial holdings. It lets him use Air Force One, Marine One, the Secret Service and the prestige and grandeur of the American presidency to line his pockets.
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Trump is skipping out on Washington even as he demanded the Senate stay in town instead of recess to jam through the unpopular health care bill. Trumps decision is a reversal from his predecessor. President Barack Obamas first August in office was packed with events on a host of issues to promote his agenda.
Trump, meanwhile, has done very little to promote his own legislative goals.
The White House preemptively responded to likely criticism of his extended vacation, with top aide and Nazi sympathizer Sebastian Gorka arguing that Trump was entitled to extended time off because he has been crushing it in the presidency.......................
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Trump takes vacation from mounting scandals to spend entire month of August golfing (Original Post)
riversedge
Jul 2017
OP
But at that luncheon he told the GOP senators that "we" should not leave town before
tblue37
Jul 2017
#7
Trump has done everything he could to advance his legislative goals; there are only two:
Shrike47
Jul 2017
#10
TBA
(825 posts)1. Great News.... Might as well extend it for about 3.5 more years.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)2. Is this satire? I honestly can't tell.
Seriously. I can't.
nolabear
(41,915 posts)8. Me either.
underpants
(182,274 posts)3. How much is he billing us for?
And putting in his own pocket?
LakeArenal
(28,729 posts)4. Yea before he was only taking 30 days, now it's the whole month...nt
ExciteBike66
(2,280 posts)5. Was it on SNL
that Will Ferrell (as G.W.Bush) said he was "working 24/7. That's 24 hours a week...7 months a year."
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)6. Deja vu all over again.
Cover your asses, everyone. Remember what happened the last time our so-called President took off the entire month of August. God, or whomever, help us.
tblue37
(64,980 posts)7. But at that luncheon he told the GOP senators that "we" should not leave town before
finishing work on the healthcare bill.
Of course WE knew that HE had no plans to stay in DC and work.
Binders Keepers
(369 posts)9. Good. Gives Mueller more time to work unmolested.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)10. Trump has done everything he could to advance his legislative goals; there are only two:
Make himself even richer and get re-elected. Other than those, he doesn't give a damn or have any plans/policies.
Gothmog
(143,999 posts)11. Trump does not want Congress to take a recess but he is taking the month of august off
That will not go over well