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© Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Trump takes break from White House with 'working vacation'
By CATHERINE LUCEY BRIDGEWATER, N.J.©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Dango bong
what?! jobs... up. stocks... up. illegal immigrant deportations... up.
I think his first six months have been wonderfully successful. The negativity about Russia and other trivial social issues are drivel
Madverts
A grand jury says otherwise, 'lil buddy.
Trump has nothing to show for a first screaming six months. Couldn't even repeal Obamacare. Positive job numbers are still riding on the coattails of the Obama administration.
CrazyJoe
How do you take a "working" vacation when you don't do a "working" work day?
Trump complained about Obama, a real president, and now he has golfed more times in 6 months than Obama did in three years. Remember when he said he would probably never leave the WHITE House because he would be working so hard.
He doesn't do anything but watch cable TV and twit lies on his phoney.
takeda.shingen.1991@gmail.com
Who knew doing nothing was so hard? What a wuss.
Prime81
I totally agree Dango bongToday
what?! jobs... up. stocks... up. illegal immigrant deportations... up.
I think his first six months have been wonderfully successful. The negativity about Russia and other trivial social issues are drivel
OssanAmerica
Jobs and stocks may be up. But anyone notice that the US Dollar is worth crap now?
takeda.shingen.1991@gmail.com
Not only that, but ask yourself why stocks are up.
theFu
Someone should take the keys to all aircraft from Pres. Trump. He needs to stop going on "away missions."
Simon Foston
Burning BushToday 06:58 am JST
It's got plenty more to throw at him.
Mostly, it appears, by accident or mistake.
bass4funk
The president has been working, the man sleeps about 4-5 hours a day, but that work is being overshadowed by this farce witch hunt and the second reason is congress for some reason seem they can't do anything on their own, so naturally that and add to that the daily leaks and the blood thirsty MSM it's all tiring and the president needs a break, I'm astounded that the man didn't leave sooner. but I wish him a good rest and a reinvigorated return to take on these vultures.
I don't know about the real president part, that's debatable, but even Obama as much as I thought he was one of the worst needed a break, all presidents do, they are human after all.
Yes and he's right. He's working hard to stop these forces that are fishing for Tuna in a smelly creek.
The last president watched a lot of TV as well and tried to take on a major network, nothing different.
Goodlucktoyou
17 days aint bad. i struggle for 4 here.
takeda.shingen.1991@gmail.com
Silly to assume that because he sleeps only 4-5 hours he's working hard. He's not. The man's already spent more than 3x the number of days on the jobs as his predecessor.
About the only bill he's signed is one he categorized as 'seriously flawed.'
He gives next to no press conferences, has nothing intelligent or worthwhile to say when interviewed.
He may sleep little, but that's only because it takes a while to put on fake spray tan, fume at news, and then go on a twitterstorm.
bass4funk
And 3x more the effort to combat the crazy forces that are trying to dislodge this president, so it's understandable.
Well, that's not his fault, that's the fault and inability of congress
I wouldn't either if I had an obnoxious press that had an agenda and not trying to ask legitimate questions or trying to get a gotcha moment on camera.
Well, at least he doesn't put his chin up in the air points a people and lectures them like little children talking every five minutes that we need to invest in flying cars by the end of 2020.
SuperLib
But not at Trump properties. When it's Trump's money, foreign workers come first. Buy American is something for the little people in his fan base to take care of.
bass4funk
Maybe that's why so many people were angry at the last admin. they didn't care about the little people in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Jimizo
I'd be careful accusing a past president of speaking to an audience as if they are children. Trump has the ability to dumb down the already childish babble of Fox and Friends for his audiences of whooping boneheads at rallies.
bass4funk
Why? If the shoe fits....
I wish the previous president would have done the same with Mika and Joe.
Jimizo
In the interests of non-partisanship, do you wish the previous president had launched a childish trash attacks on the trash MSM Fox muppets like Hannity?
bass4funk
Oh, so you think the public should just swallow the trash that the left media in their hate and childish outbursts spew in the faces of the public?
Jimizo
No, I think people should treat trash from both sides with the contempt it deserves. The volume of one compared to the other is irrelevant.
Why do you refuse to attack the trash right? Trash is trash.
bass4funk
Did you ever hear me mention Alex Jones?
Jimizo
No, but you do defend Fox. You even said Fox offered a balanced view.
LMAO.
bass4funk
And you defend the previous president, and?
They also say, "We report, you decide" libs always leave that part out.
katsu78
Low-energy Trump is taking a break from his general routine of not getting anything done to not get anything done with even more intensity. Meanwhile, the S&P, Dow Jones, and NASDAQ have been growing at a fairly consistent rate since 2009 and Trump's apologists want to give responsibility for that to be the man who was president for the most recent 6 months of it, not the man who was President for the first 8 years of it.
Goodlucktoyou
maybe he's preparing to attack NK or Iran?
Simon Foston
bass4funkToday 08:18 am JST
Right, except when he's lecturing boy scouts about how fantastic he is it's pretty hard to make any sense of what he's saying.
Simon Foston
bass4funkToday 10:01 am JST
We can get all the hate and childish outbursts we want right here. Although the left wing media can write properly.
ClippetyClop
You have a nice break Donny, you take all the time you need. We're in no rush to see you back.
CrazyJoe
I wasn't aware that he had accrued two full weeks of vacation time during his first six months on the job. How soon is he eligible for early retirement?
Jonorth
Pointing out how little he sleeps is nooot a good thing. When you don't get more sleep than that, you might as well be drunk. You'll be poor at making decisions, irrational... I guess it does explain a lot though.
peterl
A sign of how inefficient he is with his time. He should spend less of it tweeting and boasting, and more on real policy (not only the ones that help benefit the richest 1%).
bruinfan
"Congress for some reason seem they can't do anything on their own, so naturally that ..."
More Republicans than Democrats, Libertarians and Green Party politicians put together currently...just saying. Should we vote these incumbents out of office next time?
presto345
I know at least 2 things Trump does, he tweets and plays golf. But of course he is entitled to a break once in a while: he is not that young anymore, which signals another problem. It's becoming increasingly hard to distinguish truth from fiction.
mmwkdw
Interestingly his return to the WH coincides with the deadline for US Citizens to have left NK.... sounds a bit ominous.
FizzBit
Ask the NSA, they spy on everyone.
Wolfpack
I love it how people switch sides over presidential vacations every time the presidency switches parties.
bass4funk
Hate??? Seriously? If that were true people across the country wouldn't be cutting off their cable bill and people would take them a bit more seriously all that education and still can't turn it into winnable elections. Do universities issue refunds? Lol
Wolfpack
At least there is an admission that the media is Left wing. Imagine if the tables were turned and Fox were the only Left wing media outlet in a sea of conservative media companies. In such an environment our Japan Today would likely choose not to publish a story like this on its website.
Lizz
Trump complained about Obama, a real president, and now he has golfed more times in 6 months than Obama did in three years.
But at least Trump owns the courses which makes for a true working vacation anyway you slice it.
SuperLib
Is he nice to the foreigners who work as his properties? Does he give them a little wink and say, "Don't worry, I'm talking about other immigrants, not you, the cheaper ones I bring in to replace American workers."
You'd think being such a hypocrite would get him in trouble with his base, but he's trained them to keep their mouths shut. None of them will speak out against the Dear Leader and his replacing of American workers with foreign ones.
gcbel
Trump may deserve a vacation. It may even be a working vacation. True or not, Trump certainly deserves criticism for his super hypocrisy. He repeatedly criticized Obama for going on vacation and repeatedly said he wouldn't.
TumbleDry
http://www.golfwithdonald.com
Hypocrisy?
Simon Foston
WolfpackAug. 6 10:01 pm JST
No, you've misinterpreted that. I won't bother to explain how, you probably know already as I daresay it was deliberate. Either that or you can't read properly.
wtfjapan
He ran on a campaign of rocking the boat and he has kept is promise. yet a real president would have ran his campaign on good policies, so far after 6 months all of them have failed, Im just getting tired of all this winning from Trump.
wtfjapan
Do universities issue refunds? probably the same as goverment welfare requiring to be repaid.
bass4funk
I wish the left would read properly as well as being more methodical in their execution of ideas, then they just might win an election or two since they are so smart. ROFL
Wolfpack
It did seem that when you wrote, "Although the left wing media can write properly", it did seem to me that you were saying there are media that are Left wing (and not neutral as they pretend to be). But if you say you did not mean it in that sense, then I take you at your word. There are obviously some Right wing media outlets but these are few in number and overwhelmed by the massive onslaught of Leftist propaganda filling the airwaves, newspapers, and the Internet.