President Joe Biden (Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith) President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, gave a brief interview to Ryan Seacrest,
President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, gave a brief interview to Ryan Seacrest, host of the annual “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” broadcast, to ring in 2024.
The session was recorded in advance on Saturday to be shown on New Year’s Eve. As The Hill reported, “The first couple was speaking from St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the Biden family is celebrating New Year’s.”
It turns out that was on brand for America’s most vacation-intensive president.
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The New York Post reported on Sunday that Biden spent 138 days — or roughly 38% of the year — away from the White House in 2023.
When he was not in Washington, the Post added, Biden could often be found “at a getaway spot — either one of his Delaware residences, a posh vacation site or Camp David.”
As America ricocheted from one crisis to the next, Biden was officially on “vacation” for only 22 days in 2023, most of which was spent at the homes of wealthy donors in St. Croix, Lake Tahoe, or Nantucket.
But he spent the other 116 days either at his Delaware properties or Camp David, the presidential retreat facility in the Maryland mountains.
The Post further noted that Biden’s 2023 total time away from the White House matched the 38% he spent out of town in 2022.
But, as the paper observed, “Biden — who historically rode Amtrak to get out of DC when he was a senator — outpaces all recent presidents in terms of days away from Washington. George H.W. Bush was his closest competitor, spending 36% of his presidency at a getaway spot.”
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“Former President Donald Trump, who liked to spend time at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, was out of town 26% of his time in the White House.”
The Republican National Committee posted on X last Wednesday that Biden has been on vacation for 417 days during his time in office.
And he still has a year to go.
In comparison, Trump took off for 381 days during his one term, former President Barack Obama took vacation for 328 days over his two terms, while former President George W. Bush was gone for 1,020 days, according to The Daily Wire.
Biden, if re-elected and at the current pace, would beat Bush’s total by 86 days — meaning he was out almost 40% of his time in office.
It raises the question of whether Americans should think the country would be in better or worse shape than it already is, if Biden were on the job more often.
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