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Opinion: Biden, the national lampoon who vacations 40% of the year

Photo/Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times / President Joe Biden rides a bicycle along the beach at Kiawah Island, S.C., on Aug. 14, 2022.
Photo/Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times / President Joe Biden rides a bicycle along the beach at Kiawah Island, S.C., on Aug. 14, 2022. Photo/Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times / President Joe Biden rides a bicycle along the beach at Kiawah Island, S.C., on Aug. 14, 2022.


The Republican National Committee research department studied the presidential record. Based on its tweet, President Joe Biden spent 146 days on vacation in 2022. This means that during 40% of the year, Biden was somewhere other than the White House.

According to the New York Post, “Biden’s weekend jaunts and vacations spanned 234 days — with seven in 10 of them spent at his homes near Rehoboth Beach, Delaware — out of 589 days in office.” Other places he spent his environmental credibility (it is always so friendly to the carbon footprint when a president travels with his big cars, staff and multiple cargo planes) and our money were Kiawah Island and Nantucket, among others. He is so clueless that his handlers should put an ocean “green screen” in the Oval Office and tell him he is on vacation. It would save us money.

Biden being on vacation 40% of the time is probably better for the nation. With stock markets down 25%, and illegal immigration spiking along with inflation, the country could not stand him “on the job” too much.

Most recently, Joe Biden spent our tax money and Air Force One resources in the tropical confines of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Bill Clinton was the last U.S. president to vacation there in 1998. After he left, the Virgin Islands changed its name to just “The Islands.”