JUST IN: Trump Spotted Arriving At Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach In Florida
On Saturday, President Trump was spotted arriving at Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach as the shutdown drags on.
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43 Comments
HES THE INVALID HE ALWAYS MADE FUN OF 2547
DONT COME BACK
The Shutdown Works Great for Trump. Another 3.4 Million Dollar Weekend Golf Vacation for the MAGA Lie'n King! Ground Air Force One During Shutdown
That's just great, country in crisis and you waste more of our money on golf
and other luxeries. Suffer! 😮
He’s golfing?
Someone nominate Forbes for the Pulitzer.
Enjoy your day Mr President, you deserve it. Thanks for all you do to make America great again 🇺🇸 🙏 you deserve a break today. I get exhausted just watching how much you get around,for the Americans. God bless you and your family today and everyday.
Oh boy. Another golf outing. Hes not good at that either. On the tax payers money
Last time i checked, trump has caused all the messes
Absolutely a jerk who thinks he’s the dictator. Grrrrr😡
Could be sitting on a beach like the previous leader 😂
Forbes, why is this news?
If you think its the government shutdown, well then why dont you publish the records of all the Senators who left Wash DC over the weekend (especially those who flew)?
I can't help but wonder if all those limos have a president Trump manachan in them and Trump shows up an hour later in a 1962 Ford falcon dressed as the housekeeper!😆
Of course that's where he's at 🙄 Nothing like spending the people's money while Americans go hungry 🤬🤮
If you only knew the truth to all this.Its a new FINANCIAL SYSTEM.
God Bless President Donald Trump and Protect him all his days….i Declare and Decree No Weapon Forged Against the Anointed President shall Prosper 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉I Cover Anointed President Donald Trump and the Faithful Christians all over the world in the Precious Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ….Amen and Amen and Amen 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉Isaiah 54.17 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Don't you think Trump deserves some rest and relaxation after all the hard work and long hours he puts in?
Waste of money, someone call the loser an Uber. He has nothing important to do. This just taxpayers funding the trump fantasy. Five time bankrupt Trump is a total moron.
Doesn't look like
the REAL Trump.
The CURMUDGEON of America. He flees. Hides.. Whimpers.. Tantrums.. Exploits..LIES to no end!
trump spends taxpayer money and golfs while the country devolves into chaos.
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Yeah trump sucks
Trump 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
That doesn't even look like Trump, it looks more like an artificial dummie.
Biden went to Maryland every weekend to sit on the beach. I don't want to hear shit about it
https://youtube.com/shorts/8B_BuD95ca4?si=FjADWX6VAf0fZOWN
Sleepy Don
I'm a Republican and lm on food stamps due to the collapse of industrialization- the poison water crisis and bad evil property management- making me and others SICK- can't breathe. And what of WIC? And Medicaid?
Why would govt r*pe the poor, the women and children, homeless, college students, and disabled? That's insane and it's abuse! TO YOUR FELLOW AMERICANS! This has been going on for decades and needs to stop: using and threatening the poor to force them to vote for you. Sick. Bad enough DHS steals our babies!
This dude is old , he should retire and spend his last days on a golf course
Trump is so insecure he has to wear those stupid hats. God help us…
Lol
The man has more energy that guys 20 years younger.. never drinks alcohol.. eats very good ,but I gather he doesn't get enough sleep and time of himself he's he's on 90/20,Steve jobs was on 80/20, Elon is on 100/-100!! If the Dems announce at 2:00am, tomorrow morning to open govt. Trump will have doors unlocked at 2:01am..!!
Working as hard as ever I see
What a waste of tax payers’ money to guard him for golf game pleasure 🤮🤮🤮
That makes me sick to my stomach so he wanna hurt the poor people on the bottom starve them take care all their benefits and rich self lied and stole election and got in there and calls compete utterly downfall and did a complete 90° turn. He’s just like the devil the devil will promise you the world and everything that you wanna get and as soon as you get that way, he give you his tail the kidsno one no one let me repeat. No one is stronger than a mighty Lord. The Lord will put this man hold on people no one’s powerful than God.
Every one of the Supreme Court one of y’all ought to be a shame of y’all self I mean as shame to the point when this administration is in every one of y’all should be script for the Supreme Court and all the Republicans that backed Donald Trump to let him hurt the people Hurt people doing devastation damage to them, United States of America, and the democracy and y’all sitting up there letting them and think you’re gonna be all right, y’all gonna be all right no no no no no no no no no no no no no God see how y’all hurt the poor people the people on the bottom they don’t know what their next meal. I don’t know where they can get another job don’t know if they can have Medicare. All he wanna do is create a panic and scared a poor people while he’s sitting up there ripping off the government stealing all the money he can billions and trees of money jacking up the immigrants off the off the ground not even seeing if they legal treating them like trashhe is totally a disgrace to the presidency
USA has 38 trillion in debt. And no free healthcare, amazing. Love from Europe ♥️
That’s an excellent, sharp question — and you’re thinking about this exactly the right way: who was more effective, not just who had bigger raw numbers.
Let’s unpack that using real labor-market mechanics, economic context, and what the data actually mean.
🧩 Step 1 — The economic context is completely different
PresidentContext entering termShock eventsType of labor marketDonald Trump (2017–2020)Mature post-Obama expansion, near full employment (4.7% → 3.5%)COVID lockdowns, supply shocksTight labor market → sudden collapse → partial reboundJoe Biden (2021–2025)Deep COVID recession, millions jobless (6.4% → 3.7%)Delta/Omicron waves, inflation, rate hikesSlack labor market → rapid reopening + policy stimulus
Why that matters:
Trump was mostly managing a late-cycle economy — hard to squeeze out new jobs when unemployment is already at 3.5%. Biden inherited a collapsed economy with 10 million unemployed; job gains come faster when you’re simply refilling empty slots.
So Biden’s “record jobs added” headline largely reflects re-hiring after layoffs, not wholly new positions.
📊 Step 2 — Comparable productivity: “How effective per context?”
Let’s look at the effective job creation rate (gross jobs created ÷ available labor force size):
PresidentGross Jobs Created (BED, millions)Labor Force (avg, millions)Gross creation as % of labor force per yearContextual takeawayTrump (2017–2020)~123.3~162≈19% per yearVery high churn in a tight economy; 2020 shock both destroyed and created jobs; sustained pre-COVID expansion added 6.7M net new jobs before crisis.Biden (2021–2024)~131.3~165≈20% per yearVery high because of reopening surge; much of it rehiring rather than fresh expansion.
👉 Statistically, they’re almost identical in gross job-creation efficiency once you account for different starting points.
⚖️ Step 3 — Policy leverage vs. automatic recovery
Trump’s policy-driven gains:
Corporate and personal tax reform (2017) → expansion investment bump.
Deregulation (esp. energy, banking) → strong capital spending 2017–2019.
Record-low unemployment and wage growth before COVID.
COVID fiscal response (CARES Act, PPP) stabilized businesses.
Biden’s policy-driven gains:
Massive fiscal stimulus (American Rescue Plan 2021) → rapid demand recovery.
Infrastructure, CHIPS, and clean-energy industrial policies → manufacturing & construction boost.
Inflation reduction via Fed cooperation → slower hiring 2023–2024 but still strong labor demand.
Interpretation:
Biden’s numbers look huge, but most of them are restorative. Trump’s came from organic expansion and business investment, then got wiped by an exogenous event (lockdowns). When you normalize for that, Trump’s efficiency per baseline employment looks roughly equal — and in some metrics (pre-pandemic wages, unemployment) even better.
🧮 Step 4 — Objective summary
MetricTrumpBidenMore effectiveNet new jobs (term)–2.7M (COVID distorted)+14.7MBiden (recovery effect)Pre-crisis net jobs (through Feb 2020)+6.7M+14.7M (post-collapse)Roughly equal per contextGross jobs created (BED)123M131MStatistically similarUnemployment low3.5% (50-yr low)3.7%Trump (slightly lower)Wage growth (real median)+2.9% pre-COVID+1.7% (inflation drag)TrumpInflation management1.9% avg4.2% avg (through 2024)TrumpFiscal deficits (as % GDP)~4.7% avg~6.2% avgTrumpManufacturing job growth (pre/post COVID)+500K pre-2020+800K post-2021Biden (re-industrial push)
🧭 Step 5 — Bottom-line assessment
If you adjust for context and exclude the forced shutdown effects, Trump and Biden show similar gross job-creation effectiveness — around 19–20% per year of the labor force.
Trump’s record shows stronger pre-crisis organic expansion and a more efficient labor market (very low unemployment, steady real wage gains).
Biden’s record shows stronger recovery numbers because he started from a deep hole and used enormous fiscal spending.
Objectively: if “effective” means creating jobs in a functioning economy, Trump’s pre-COVID performance was more efficient per conditions.
If “effective” means restoring jobs after a collapse, Biden’s term shows faster total recovery speed — but driven heavily by stimulus and reopening rather than policy-driven expansion.
Would you like me to show a chart comparing their “context-adjusted effectiveness” — i.e., gross job creation per available worker vs unemployment rate trend — so you can visually see how similar they really are?
Let be honest things were better under Joe!
💜 President Uncle Trump 💯
Fatty gotta go play – while Epstein files aren't released yet, and our economy is going down the tubes.
May God bless Donald Trump and the FBI 🙂
We love you, sir
God bless America and President Trump