


Harry Truman played poker on the porch in Key West, Florida.
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Presidents have been escaping Washington’s summer heat and humidity ever since Thomas Jefferson looked out of the White House windows and watched as a white fog that was believed to be toxic rolled in. His staff rarely acknowledges that he plays, even when photos of him on the course pop up on social media.
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But he plays golf whenever he’s at his clubs sometimes it’s the full 18 holes, other times less than that. “I’m going to be working for you, I’m not going to have time to go play golf,” he told supporters in Virginia. Trump said last year that he wouldn’t have time for golf if he became president. Nice work ethic,” Trump tweeted in August 2011. Now he heads to a 10 day vacation in Martha’s Vineyard. The figures include a weekend during official travel overseas and Father’s Day weekend at Camp David, the government-owned presidential retreat in Maryland.Ĭontrast Trump’s frequent getaways with his criticism, before and during last year’s presidential campaign, of Barack Obama’s vacations and frequent golf played golf yesterday. So far, he has spent 13 of 28 weekends in office away from the White House, mostly at his properties in Palm Beach, Florida, or in Bedminster, New Jersey, according to an Associated Press count. “How often do you see me going away?”Īctually, Trump gets out of town quite often. He told Larry King in an interview that year: “Most of the people I know that are successful really don’t take vacations. What’s the point? If you’re not enjoying your work, you’re in the wrong job,” Trump wrote in his 2004 book, Trump: Think Like a Billionaire. Trump and his supporters like to publicize his disdain for taking vacations, when the truth is that he takes them constantly. White House officials said this is a “working vacation”, and that Trump would not have time for a reading list, USA Today reported. Asked whether Trump would leave Washington this month, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Tuesday: “We’ll continue to keep you guys updated on his August schedule as those details are finalized.” The White House hasn’t been entertaining questions about the president’s August plans. Everyone who works in the White House West Wing, including the Oval Office occupant himself, must clear out by the end of the week so that the government can replace a bulky, 27-year-old heating and cooling system. The vacation could be driven in part by necessity.
