Why does it matter that POTUS has spent more time away from the White House then tRump???

[a kennedy]

President Joe Biden spent the weekend at his home in Delaware, where he met up with his wife, other family members and – if they followed usual practice – Willow the cat and Commander the dog.

It’s a familiar weekly ritual. As of this point in his presidency, Biden has spent more than a quarter of his time working from his home state of Delaware, either at his house in Wilmington or his Rehoboth Beach property.

Some 21 months into his term, Biden has made 55 visits to Delaware, totaling some or all of 174 days as of Sunday, according to a CNN analysis of presidential schedules and a tally kept by Mark Knoller, the longtime unofficial statistician of the White House press corps. In addition, Biden has made 19 visits, or all or part of 64 days, to the Camp David presidential retreat in rural Maryland.

He has now surpassed even the getaway time of former President Donald Trump, so often criticized by Democrats for his regular departures from the White House to stay at one of his personal homes. At this point in his tenure, Trump had spent about 135 days at either his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, or his home at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Trump also had spent 23 days at Camp David.09

Oh right, this article is from CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/politics/joe-biden-presidency-delaware-work-from-home/index.html

[JohnSJ]

1. It doesn't matter. What does matter is the republican party supports someone who tried to overthrow

the government

[gratuitous]

2. And what did/does each man do in his time away from the White House?

Reporters were uniformly barred from seeing the former guy when he was hunkering down at one of his resorts, charging the taxpayers thousands and thousands of dollars for the Secret Service to stay there. What was he doing? Playing golf, for the most part.

What is President Biden doing during his time at home or Camp David? We know he's not golfing. And he's getting items crossed off his agenda, like the Inflation Reduction Act. This is a pretty lame attempt at both-sidesing the work ethic of President Biden with the non-existent work ethic of the former guy.

[2naSalit]

11. +1

[mahina]

12. Is he getting plays from Putin and giving away our secrets CNN?

No, he is not.

So if he packs up on a Friday and goes back to work on Monday like the rest of us you count that is four days CNN? GTFO

[Xoan]

3. Because it riles both sides.

[Demsrule86]

4. Delaware is a hop, skip and a jump from DC and Biden doesn't bilk the country by charging his

SS personal 'rent'. My question to you is why post a right-wing talking point? And this is why I don't watch CNN.

[Demsrule86]

5. Biden is the president and a Democrat you know...

[Historic NY]

6. He's approx 30 minutes by helicopter or plane from the WH.

some people seem to forget the house was already configured for government use back in his first term as VP.


"The amazing thing about this job … is that the job seems to follow you around," he told reporters. (Bush)

"It's going to be a working vacation — it's going to include parts work and parts vacation," he said, noting that Bush would receive daily intelligence briefings, except on Sundays, Ari Fleischer

"There's almost no relationship between the number of hours you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office and how good a president you are," he said. Michael Beschloss

"Presidents don't get vacations — they just get a change of scenery," he said in 1985. "You're still president … The job goes with you." St. Ronnie

[link:https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121420&page=1|]

[Ocelot II]

7. What is he doing when he's in Delaware for the weekend? That's what matters.

TFG played golf while he was away and didn't do a hell of a lot of work even when he was in DC. Biden keeps working. And Delaware is a hell of a lot closer to DC than Florida; you can drive to either Wilmington or Rehoboth Beach in a little over 2 hours.

[Historic NY]

13. Estimated flight time from New Castle Airport, Wilmington, to Andrews Air Force Base,

is ten minutes, it take him longer to drive. The flight time by Marine I to Andrews is about 4 minutes.

So its probably longer from the NG base to his house 7.5 miles away

[Joinfortmill]

8. Ha! The difference is Joe is working - Trump was criming.

[SlimJimmy]

9. It doesn't matter

But perception is everything in politics. And it gives a talking point to the repukes.

[brush]

10. Ahhhhh...he's not racking up outrageous fees for his own...

golf resorts for the Secret Service and the rest of his entourage to rent carts and rooms etc.

Carol Leonnig
@CarolLeonnig

NEWWW - Trump Org charged @SecretService five and six times the government rate for agents who had to stay at his properties to protect him and his families.
As much as $1185 a nite for Trump International -- not "at cost" and "free" as Eric Trump claimed

There's quite a bit of difference, and Delaware is a 30 minute helicopter ride from DC,

Why the republican talking point on DU?