Donald Trump Jr. was on Wednesday accused of hypocrisy after he attacked President Joe Biden’s work ethic on X, the social media platform previously often known as Twitter.
Donald Trump’s eldest son claimed the Biden White House had solely introduced the president was going to go to the positioning of the fiery February 2023 prepare derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, round its one-year anniversary as a result of it’s an election yr.
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“Americans aren’t falling for this anymore,” wrote the Trump scion.
“Joe Biden has spent 40% of his presidency on vacation & often calls a lid on his day before noon,” he added. “He’s had plenty of time to go, but couldn’t be bothered till an election. People aren’t giving him 4 more years to keep destroying America!”
Biden has spent round that quantity of his presidency away from the White House, however usually it’s working from dwelling in his dwelling state of Delaware.
“It is 2022, not 1922. If the rest of the country can work from home, so can the president of the United States,” mentioned Michael LaRosa, a former press secretary to first woman Jill Biden, defending the president’s time away to CNN in 2022.
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Critics of Trump Jr.’s spin pointed to his father’s personal file in response.
When president, the present GOP front-runner Trump reportedly paid 285 visits to golf programs at a price of $142 million to the taxpayer.
In 2019, Axios reported the four-times-indicted ex-POTUS spent round 60% of his working hours in so-called unstructured “executive time” ― which concerned watching TV and making calls to pals and advisers.
Following his 2020 election defeat to Biden, Trump’s every day schedule within the last weeks of his presidency mentioned he “will work from early in the morning until late in the evening.”
“He will make many calls and have many meetings,” it added.
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