One out of every five minutes in Palm Beach

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By Philip Bump April 17 at 11:54 AM

... Why was Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday? Quite simply, because he’s usually there on the weekend. On seven of the 13 weekends he has been president, he has spent time at the resort, usually slipping away from Mar-a-Lago to head to one of his nearby golf courses to play a round. That includes each of the past two weekends, when he arrived on Thursday and stayed through most of Sunday ...

If we tally the time spent in Palm Beach (at Mar-a-Lago and his golf clubs nearby) rounded to the half-hour since he was inaugurated and through noon on Monday, Trump has spent about one out of every five minutes of his presidency at the “winter White House” — 424.5 hours there and 1,663.5 hours everywhere else, including on Air Force One headed to Mar-a-Lago. (That trip takes about an hour-and-a-half, so that’s an additional 21 hours spent flying there and back.) ...



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/04/17/trump-has-spent-one-out-of-every-five-minutes-of-his-presidency-in-palm-beach/

[Buns_of_Fire]

1. I'm looking forward to his 3-month summer vacation.

He needs his R&R, you know. Prezidentin' is hard werk.

I figure it would give the country some extra time to change the locks on the WH while he's gone.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. And it's all on the taxpayer's dime