Donald Trump visited the golf course for the 62nd time as President
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Donald Trump visited the golf course for the 62nd time as President

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Donald Trump is at his Trump National Golf Club in in Bedminster, N.J. on Sept. 21, after yet another busy day during the United Nations General Assembly in New York. He arrived at the club in the late afternoon, marking the 62nd time the 45th President has visited one of his 17 golf clubs (and, for most of them, presumably played some golf) since becoming President on Jan. 20, 2017.

Trump has split time between Trump National in New Jersey and Trump TOwer in New York City for portions of this trip, as he has other meetings and rendezvous with world leaders in the Big Apple.

So far, Trump has been on the golf course or his clubs during some portion of the day for 25.4 percent of his presidency.

The Trump Administration, per policy, does not acknowledge that Trump is playing even a hole of golf, much less an 18-hole round. However, if he's going to the golf club for about 4-5 hours, you can be pretty sure he's playing golf. Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden has asked the White House to provide the names of Trump's golf partners, as well for his clubs to provide visitor logs to get a sense of when Trump has played golf and with whom.

The President is certainly entitled to some leisure time, and golf has been an outlet for most Commanders-in-Chief dating back to the early 20th century. However, the reluctance to even acknowledge that this President plays golf conflicts with his almost relentless criticism of his predecessor, Barack Obama, who played an estimated 333 rounds of golf as President.

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