Joe Biden, as we reported earlier in the week is currently on vacation in Delaware. He left the White House Friday around 11 a.m. and likely wouldn’t be back until at least Tuesday. The drama he created on vacation was exacerbated by a fall from his bike. The rest of his family are trying to distract from the incident by laughing at Donald Trump’s stupidity. But these are the “adults in charge,” right?
Biden’s vacation numbers are as high as his approval numbers are low. He’s on pace to spend more time away from the White House than any of his predecessors — he’s now spent almost 200 full or partial days away from the White House. He would be away for 553 days if he continues at the current pace. He’s spent the last four weekends in a row away.
His team claimed that he, like others before him, was “constantly on the job, regardless of their location — whether they’re on a state visit overseas or just 100 miles from the White House for a short trip to Wilmington.” They said that, when it came out that he was the one who had spent the most time on personal travel in his inaugural year.
However, there’s no accountability for what he’s doing or who he’s seeing when he is in Delaware. They refuse transparency on who he’s meeting with. We only learn about this if the man is willing to share it with us. As it is, with all the early lids and his various issues, I’m not sure he’s much the job when he’s even in Washington.
But Biden messed up the ‘he’s constantly at work’ argument with what he told reporters on Saturday. Either he didn’t get the memo about what he was supposed to say–or he forgot about it–when reporters asked him a question about whether he would be talking with China’s President Xi Jinping.
Biden got prickly with the reporters and said that he wasn’t going to be talking to them, since “[he’s] on [his] vacation.”
REPORTER: Mr. President, can you speak to President Xi quickly?”
BIDEN: “I won’t talk to you!” I’m on my vacation…Yes, I’m going to be talking to him.” pic.twitter.com/FifEdlKSk9
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 19, 2022
Not exactly looking like he’s “constantly on the job” there. He’s “constantly” on vacation, and how dare anyone bother him! This man has a strong sense of entitlement. It’s our time on which he’s taking that vacation. Every time he goes to Delaware, we’re paying for Air Force One to get him there, as well as the Secret Service and their accommodations.
Here’s what the NY Post said, about cost for these trips, in November 2021:
Biden’s regular weekend and a few midweek trips home to Delaware have cost nearly $3 million in security alone, Secret Service expense records shared with The Post show.
Biden’s security detail spent $1.96 million on 16 trips to his Delaware homes this year, the records indicate. Another nine trips aren’t yet counted and likely push the total to $3 million.
These 25 trips were accumulated in only 43 weeks.
And the true price tag to taxpayers is higher because the Pentagon hasn’t released costs for Air Force One and Marine One helicopter trips.
If I’m reading that right, that’s $120,000 on security alone for just one of the trips, if you divided $3 million by 25. That’s not counting the plane, the helicopter, or anything else. So we’re talking about a lot more, for each trip.
Meanwhile, as he takes his time to hang out and have fun at the beach — yet again — Americans are trying to figure out whether to buy gas or food to deal with all the spiraling costs. Priorities.
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