{"id":385879,"date":"2026-01-02T01:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/385879\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T01:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:57:15","slug":"fore-trump-spent-nearly-a-quarter-of-2025-at-his-golf-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/385879\/","title":{"rendered":"Fore! Trump spent nearly a quarter of 2025 at his golf clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump has spent nearly a quarter of his second term at a golf club<\/a>, according to a tracking website.<\/p>\n

The 79-year-old has visited golf clubs at least 79 times <\/a>since taking office on January 20, 2025, or about 22.8 percent of the presidency, according to DidTrumpGolfToday.com. <\/a><\/p>\n

The tracker, which compiles data based on Trump\u2019s public schedule, does not note how many of those days the president actually hit the courses. It also does not include data from December 2025.<\/p>\n

Since returning to office, Trump\u2019s golf club visits have cost taxpayers an estimated $110,600,000, according to the website.<\/p>\n

The tracker based that calculation on a 2019 Government Accountability Office report on the cost of four golf trips during Trump\u2019s first presidency.<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump has spent nearly a quarter of his second term so far at his golf clubs, according to a tracker (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s busiest month at the golf club was August, when he spent every weekend at his golf clubs, totaling 10 days.<\/p>\n

The president also spent nine days at the golf club in both March and November, according to the tracker.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump is working 24\/7 to Make America Great Again and make the world a safer place. Nobody works harder than President Trump who has delivered a record number of historic achievements in only a year,\u201d White House spokesman Davis Ingle, told The Independent.<\/p>\n

A HuffPost analysis <\/a>from late November put Trump at spending about $71 million in taxpayer-funded golfing outings during his second term.<\/p>\n

Many of the trips were to Mar-a-Lago, which costs an estimated $3.4 million in travel and security, according to the report.<\/p>\n

During his first term, Trump spent $151.5 million in taxpayer-funded golf travel and security.<\/p>\n

Aside from Mar-a-Lago, Trump made nine trips to his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf resort, costing about $1.1 million each, and one trip to his new Aberdeen, Scotland course, costing nearly $10 million in taxpayer funds.<\/p>\n

HuffPost\u2019s analysis was also based on cost estimates from the same 2019 Government Accountability Office report on Trump\u2019s first\u2013term Mar-a-Lago trips. Most of the costs come from military and law enforcement salaries, which haven\u2019t kept up with inflation, so the figures aren\u2019t adjusted to current dollars.<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s busiest month at the golf club was August, when he spent every weekend at his golf clubs, totaling 10 days (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Trump is not the first president to spend a decent amount of time on the golf course. Former President Barack Obama received sharp criticism<\/a> while in office over the time he spent playing the game.<\/p>\n

While Obama was known for his frequent golf outings, his cost is estimated as significantly less than Trump\u2019s, as he would use a smaller aircraft or play at nearby courses.<\/p>\n

Trump famously slammed Obama\u2019s frequent golfing<\/a> at a rally in February 2016, promising that, as president, he would give up visiting his courses in Scotland and South Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love golf, but if I were in the White House, I don\u2019t think I\u2019d ever see Turnberry again. I don\u2019t think I\u2019d ever see Doral again,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI don\u2019t ever think I\u2019d see anything. I just want to stay in the White House and work my ass off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump quickly broke that promise, golfing 293 days at his courses during his first term.<\/p>\n

The president has spent Christmas and New Year at his Mar-a-Lago resort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump has spent nearly a quarter of his second term at a golf club, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,51063,22880,2425,85],"class_list":["post-385879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-golf-club","tag-government-accountability-office","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}