Trump urges Americans to work harder despite spending 22% of term golfing
Trump urges Americans to work harder despite spending 22% of term golfing
The president called for fewer non-working holidays even as he's spent 22% of his second presidential term on a golf course
I urge Trump to go fuck himself.
With all his golf clubs at the same time
I urge him to get bent!
Honestly he should golf more
With the amount he plays golf, you'd think he'd be better at it, but apparently he's a chronic cheat at that as well.
Of course, Trump is the biggest business idiot in the country. He was largely elected because he is the big, dumb mascot of business idiots.
The other 78% he reneges on nuclear agreements in place since a decade and threatens war on the behalf of a country that starts with I, probably the Ivory Coast, or maybe Iceland, to blow up another country that starts with I, maybe Italy.
Maybe he sees all these Is and thinks "Yeah, I'm awesome."
meh, I did the quiet quit thing a long time ago. not working harder without a nice raise. I'm urging Americans to work less. go on! take that day off! you can do it!
Americans should definitely take Voting Day off, to maybe vote.
They could also have voting day on a fucking sunday like the rest of us. 🤷🏻♂️
ahaha... good one. Maybe they will go vote if they get a free burger with fries. Or tacos... 😂🤣😂
Damn it's been a while since a political nottheonion was actually a good nottheonion
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given he only complains about juneteenth, he is saying that black people should work harder.
Yeah, his comment was most definitely targeted.
And it has a TACO index. Perfect. xD
I’m not a Trump supporter in any way, but it’s not excessive.
That’s 21.7 weeks. If he went golfing on the weekend, then he still golfed less than 2 times per week.
Est. cost to taxpayers for golf since returning to office: $51,800,000
Perhaps you would not mind paying his golf bill then.
Edit to add: this is roughly $340,789 per day of golfing. Or over 21 years worth of pretax income for someone making minimum wages... for 1 day of golf. Meaning at minimum wages it would take you 3,200+ years to pay for what trump has golfed so far this term. Provided you only put the entirety of your paycheck to that bill.
He actually said at his most recent press conference that he's upset because he hasn't been golfing for the last three weeks.
Well yeah
Pensions are fucked globally
Not a single one of you will see any money from it, so better get working
Even better, you guys will probably need to extend the pension age up to 75 or so
Prepare for fun times
France revolted violently for less... and again after Charlie X started stripping away the Napoleonic rights.
His base legit acts like a class of peasants for this man. It is the most insane thing to watch in real time.
Just for that I'm playing games my entire shift.
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Every MAGA is going to volunteer to work on Saturdays, and every holiday, right? Dear Leader requires it.
"I DID NOT VOTE FOR THIS!!!" - person that voted for the candidate that promised more work without more pay
Look at that 275lb (320?) bag of piss wrapped up in a cheap looking 10k suit shitting his pants. Nubby little fingers. Weird nubby mushroom member (this is from a a legal deposition)
Clearly demented and so insecure he can’t even ask for help.
Dude is in over his head.
The stress is gonna kill him. He knows it that’s why he’s not working.
He is not looking healthy
ahaha... it gets more tragicomic everyday... Tacos, anyone?
With extra chicken, please
I realize this is not the onion but does anyone have a different source?
This looks fake
I love that CNN headline. “Is he right?” Instead of “lel”. Absolute ghouls running this world.
Thanks for the links
Also dude looks like he takes 4 hour naps a day, why do we keep electing senior citizens
our president is a hypocrite?? wow. this is news to me. well thanks for bringing this to light! i'm sure the people will have a change of heart now!
Incentivize it, you living malediction. Expand healthcare to allow more hours, increase overtime pay, make it easier to start a business, personally turn a few billionaires into pulp within a massive stadium housing solely seats, cameras, screens, a long spool of rope, and a single woodchipper. Frankly, these aren’t big asks.
For real. You'd think the black hole of failure that Drumph and his billionaire cabinet are, would be the death knell for the fucking prosperity bible. Woodchip them all !!
I think one of those industrial grinders that grind up engines and stuff would be even better. Just run it at extra slow speed as you lower them in.
No thanks, I'm good.
As much as I fucking hate the irish star, they have a good headline for once.
The mantra I was told was always 'add value' at your job.
When I read volume one of capital I came to understand that this was willingly giving more of my labour for free on top of the labour capital was already profiting from (after all I am only given a job earning x units/hour as long as capital, via management upwards, earns x+1/units from that labour). Thus wealth trickles upwards in capitalism. Not down.
Everyone bought the 'add value' line and repeated it in work as though the were doing something great - us humans tend to believe what we are told (and once those neural pathways are burned they don't change easily), which is in large part why those without empathy are able to succeed. We need to rely on each other and they don't give a fuck.
Another one is "always use other people's money" (from think and grow rich, or whichever popular book it came from). If you're Elon Musk looking to hedge risk when buying twitter then fair enough, otherwise you go cap in hand to capital, and pay it a portion of the wealth you create for the privilege of being loaned the capital to begin with. Capitalists want you to use other people's (actually their) money in order that they can take their cut of your hard work.
I'd recommend Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the 21st Century' if you're into the deep economics side of all this. Its a bit dense, but really hammers home the point that the period from ~1940 - 1980 in the US was the ONLY period where wealth inequality was declining and therefore it was easier for people to believe that we lived in a meritocracy of some kind where 'adding value' at work actually did lead to added wages. That period has ended, and now inequality and trickle-up economics are reaching all time highs, with no apparent limit in sight.
Thanks I haven't read it but do intend to. Compared to Marx Piketty is probably a breeze to read lol. I wouldn't be surprised if Piketty isn't a better choice for people to read nowadays.
I thought the amount of time he golfs would be higher. Every time he golfs we pay the taco when he stays at his properties.
I would argue that it's actually FAR better for USA and the world, that he golf as much as possible. He doesn't fuck as much stuff up when he's elsewhere amused......
He intended to golf more but the mind and body are broken.
This monster feeds on media attention. Let's all stop relating every stupid things he says and focus on basically anything else, it will always be more positive.
I hate articles like this. You know weekends are 28% of days right? Can we report on real crazy shit Trump has done instead of these performative outrages?
No, I don’t think so.
Biden golfed a total of nine times.
Obama spent 3% of his time golfing.
Trump, 22-25%, depending on the source.
This is crazy shit, a dictator stating people should work harder while spending 1/4th of his time on the course. The presidency isn’f supposed to get weekends off.
It's also the fact that Drumph whined incessantly about Obama playing golf, and vowed that he himself would be working too hard to ever play golf..... Ironically though, we are all better off the more Drumph golfs rather than "works"......
Biden golfed a total of nine times.
Biden & Obama weren't a golfer though... so looking at just golf is dumb for them.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/15/us-news/biden-took-off-577-days-in-4-years-tops-modern-era-presidents/
Biden’s out-of-office ratio far surpasses time off taken by Trump — who spent 26% of his first term away from Washington, D.C. — 381 of his 1,461 days in office, records show.
Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama vacationed for just 11% of their two-term presidencies — and workhorse Jimmy Carter took only 79 days of breaks, accounting for 5% of his single term in office.
Obama was low, Biden was stupid high. Trump is in the middle here.
Stop pretending this is anything close to normal.
He is the goddamn president. He doesn’t get weekends.
Given how worker production increasing over time and pay for said production have not stood in line with each other I think I’d rather not.
Classic 🫅
Frankly, I'd really rather that the Irish Star not encourage him to be spending more time making policy.
Exactly this. It's better for the world if he plays golf more.....
Hope be chokes on his KFC. I’ll go celebrate by eating… KFC