Presidential Vacation Days Comparison Chart
Hes spending this vacation in Marthas Vineyard with his family.
Presidential vacation days comparison chart. Because the fiscal year does not line up with Trumps inauguration we have left fiscal year 2017 out of. President Obama all or part of 21 days One long weekend visit to Chicago all or part of four days Eight visits to Camp David all or part of 17 days President GW. 8 the day before Obama left for Marthas Vineyard Knoller tweeted that Obama had spent 125 full or partial days on vacation and at the same point in Bushs presidency he had spent 381.
So here it is. According to new reports not even three months into his presidential tenure Trump has cost US. Bush all or part of 67 days.
The full cost of this trip is unknown. He told us via email that Obama has been on 28 vacations including long weekends spanning all or part of 217 days. At this point in his second term former President George W.
In seven years the Obama family took a total of 933. As vice president in 1799 Jefferson had remained away from the capital even longer--ten months. Bush had made 51 visits to his ranch in tiny Crawford Texas totaling all or part of 335 days.
Obama has spent 185 days abroad one fewer than Bush through his 87th month and three fewer weeks than President Clinton 206 days. For comparisons sake President Bill Clintons total is 174 days and Reagan hit 390 349 at his ranch and 41 in Palm Springs according to Knoller. A lot more.
Another telling comparison is how the approval ratings through 100 days of all three presidents stack up. Statistics regarding presidential vacations217 Estimate of number of vacation days President Obama has taken in the last eight years349 Estimated number of vacation days taken by his predecessor. The president has just over four months left in his term.
Presidential vacations are common. Bush took more days of vacation than Ronald Reagan. According to Knoller Carter spent just 19 days on vacation in 1977.
For a man who seemingly cant keep former President Barack Obamas name out of his mouth a comparison of their presidential travel expenditures seems fitting. At the same point in his presidency Aug. Taxpayers at least 24 million to cover expenses for trips to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach Florida.
President Clinton took all or part of. Adding in Camp David visits would bring Obamas total to date to 223 thats 83 days at Camp David and Bushs total for his entire time in office to 1024 491 days at the presidential retreat. He left for home mid-July and did not come back until October setting the precedent for long presidential vacations which Madison was to improve upon.
President Obamas First 100 Days Barack Obama took the oath of office on January 20 2009 just four months after the collapse of Lehman Brothers the nadir of the Great Recession. He split his vacation time between the ranch in. Most of that time Knoller says the former president spent at his home in Plains Ga.
At this point in his Presidency Bush had paid visits to 124 countries an average of 29 per trip. Unofficial presidential travel is common but Obamas vacation time was on the low end of the spectrum. However compared to past presidents Obama has taken relatively few vacation days.
Still much is made of these presidential vacation days and how to count them. 13 2005 George W. At around the 100-day mark 53 percent of Americans said they approved of the.
In the last fiscal two years the Trump family has taken 3249 protected trips. 13 2013 Obama is on his 15th vacation trip covering all or part of 96 days total. The chart below shows the number of protective trips for each fiscal year which for the federal government begins in October.
