Laziest president EVER!

Laziest. President. Ever. pic.twitter.com/3hq1XhItaj

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) December 27, 2017

Courtesy of Guacamole:  

While he was on the campaign trail, President Donald Trump never held back from criticizing his predecessor, Barack Obama, for taking vacations during his time in office. In fact, he regularly laid into the former president for the time he spent golfing or going out of town with his family. Once he took office, however, Trump must have realized the presidency is a pretty stressful position.

Every time Trump visits one of his own properties, American taxpayers are essentially putting money into the president's pocket. Though many predictions forecast that Trump's personal costs are on pace to outspend every other President, the amount of money he's spending on vacation shouldn't actually matter. What's most concerning to many is that Trump is using the power of the presidency to enrich himself––something Americans once seemed so wary of that voters demanded Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm before taking office. 

The Trumpsters will claim that these are "working vacations" but every bit of evidence available suggests that this idiot works as little as humanly possible, which ultimately is probably a good thing since one can only imagine how much more he could screw up if he worked harder at it.

Here is the president of your country waddling over to some golf club guests while supposedly "working" for America.

This group ran into President Trump himself at Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey
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— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) August 6, 2017

Jesus the man is so unsteady on his feet that he looks like he ready to keel over at any minute.

Now according to Trump he is NOT on a vacation.

Working in Bedminster, N.J., as long planned construction is being done at the White House. This is not a vacation - meetings and calls!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2017

Golf cart, golf clothes, walking around pressing the flesh of gold club attendees, certainly looks like a vacation to me.

Which is perfectly fine with me.

As far as I'm concerned the less time this guy spends destroying our country the better for everybody. 

Sean Hannity goes on "vacation" as advertisers flee his show likes rats on a sinking ship.

Uh oh My ANNUAL Memorial Day long weekend starts NOW. Destroy Trump/Conservative media breathless coverage starts! Did Hannity do last show?

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 25, 2017

Now if that seems familiar you may remember that Bill O'Reilly also claimed that he was on vacation, while in fact Fox was busy cleaning out his desk.

Now that does not mean for certain that Hannity is toast, but then again yes it pretty much does just that even though Fox is claiming he is coming back.

He may indeed return from vacation on Tuesday, but the writing in on the wall. 

Courtesy of the LA Times:

Fox News may be seeing a repeat of advertiser backlash that eventually drove out its former top anchor, Bill O’Reilly. 

At least seven advertisers — Cars.com, Leesa Sleep, Casper, USAA, Peloton, the Crowne Plaza hotel chain and doorbell company Ring — have reportedly asked to be pulled from Sean Hannity’s prime-time program. 

The defections are in response to the host’s promotion of a right-wing theory that Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer, was slain after providing party emails to WikiLeaks. 

I'll tell you one thing, if Hannity does lose his job this Seth Rich conspiracy theory will be his great white whale, and he will keep flogging that dead horse until he takes his last breath.

Sounds like the perfect end to a despicable career.

Just a reminder that this cool customer is still out there in the world. And that he has plans. Big plans.

We have heard from Eric Holder that Obama is getting ready to reenter the world of politics: 

“It’s coming. He’s coming,” Holder said, speaking to reporters at a briefing for the new group. “And he’s ready to roll.”

We also know that he and Michelle might have the most lucrative book deal in the history of lucrative book deals.

Another thing that we know is that he is still haunting the dreams of the current resident of the White House:

Even though top Republicans on Capitol Hill have provided little support for President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that former President Barack Obama broke the law to spy on his campaign, Trump reportedly remains committed to attacking his political arch nemesis because he is “somewhat haunted” by “President Obama’s first term.” 

Sources close to the president reportedly chalk up his latest set of wild allegations as part of a larger obsession with his predecessor. 

And this is before the former President has even reentered the world fully after his long overdue vacation.

One has to wonder how Trump will respond once  President "So Much Cooler Than Thou" returns to the national stage?

So for those of you wondering when the Daily Mail would finally post those Bristol Palin Hawaii vacation photos, wonder no longer.

Courtesy of the Daily Mail: 

Bristol Palin traded the cold Alaska weather for some fun in the sun with her sisters and her two-month-old daughter Sailor Grace during a much-needed family vacation. 

The 25-year-old left her custody battles with former partners Levi Johnston and Dakota Meyer behind and enjoyed a girls' getaway in Hawaii with her sisters Willow, 21, and Piper, 14, over the weekend. 

Bristol took to Instagram to share photos of them frolicking in the surf and a picture of what was presumably Sailor's first dip in a swimming pool. 

So yeah I think it's pretty clear that the Daily Mail has now replaced Radar Online as the go to source for Palin propaganda.

Though to be honest I have no idea how this helps Bristol sell her image as the poor hard working single mom.

I was raised by a single mother and do you know how many times we went to Hawaii?

That would be the same number of times we went to Florida, California, New York or even freaking Washington state.

Never, not once, nada.

 But do you know what? Vacations are not the tool by which somebody measures good parenting.

Courtesy of Sunny Johnston's Facebook page.

That would be the quality of the time you spend together, not the location in which that time is spent.

A couple more pics of poor single mom Bristol Palin on vacation in Hawaii.

my heart

A photo posted by Bristol Palin (@bsmp2) on Mar 5, 2016 at 4:12pm PST

☀️ best sister friends

A photo posted by Bristol Palin (@bsmp2) on Mar 5, 2016 at 9:44pm PST

And yes, like many of you, I find that these pictures raise some interesting questions.

P.S. By the way there will be a troll coming by at some point to attack us for spending any time talking about Bristol and her vacation because it is "irrelevant." However the fact that they spend the time to attack us every single time proves that it is not. 

So yes, for those wondering, Bristol Palin is actually in Hawaii with her newborn daughter.

A photo posted by Bristol Palin (@bsmp2) on Mar 4, 2016 at 8:32pm PST

I was not sure what when I first saw the picture so I reached out to some sources, and yep she went to Hawaii alright.

I don't think she took Tripp however, I think he is with Levi and Sunny right now.

So the question to be asked is, what in the hell possesses somebody to take a newborn on a trip to Hawaii?

I mean it's not like Sailor can enjoy the ocean. Or the sun. Or the local culture.

In fact she will have no memory whatsoever that she even went.

All I know is that I wish I had a job like Bristol keeps claiming to have, because I have not been on a vacation for more than fives years now. 

Hiking in Hawaii is great fun. Especially when the President makes a surprise appearance.

When you and your gf meet the President of the United States #POTUS #Hawaii #bucketlist @sandi_jo

A video posted by @dtmad3it on Dec 22, 2015 at 5:53pm PST

There were several other folks out hiking that day who also took notice of the President.

Okay well you know I am not usually one to criticize the President very often, but I have to say that I lived in Hawaii when I went to college, and I cannot imagine why he would be wearing a black t-shirt and long black sweatpants while hiking in that heat.

It is no exaggeration to say that would have killed me.

I did a ton of hiking while I lived there, and unless it was raining, I was stripped down to as few clothes as possible without risking an arrest for indecent exposure.

Still somehow he looks cool calm and collected, even in that muggy heat.

Taking children out of school in the middle of the school year to rub your ex's face in the fact that you can afford to give them more stuff. Just Bristol Palin things.

Courtesy of Bristol's Pikore account.

Caption: #7monthspregnant but still the best time with my boys

You know the holiday break is coming up in just about two months. That is typically when Alaskans take their children on holiday to tropical locations.

You know, so as not to interrupt their education.

But I guess it is better to take your son to, what looks like Hawaii to me, while his father is busy working hard on the North Slope to make money to pay those back child support payments.

That way you can show your son that you can give him all of the vacations, toys, and electronic devices that his father can't afford. And all his father can provide is a stable home life, and love.

By the way can somebody once again explain to me how the above photo is Bristol while seven months, but below is Bristol while training several hours a day for a competitive dance contest?

So confusing.

Travel agency uses Denmark's low birth rate as inspiration for some creative, and rather naughty advertisements.

Courtesy of the YouTube page: 

Spies Travel is joining forces with wannabe grandmas in the fight against Denmark's low birth rate. Introducing Spies Parent Purchase™: Send your child on an active holiday and get a grandchild.

Okay now THAT is pretty funny, and a not a little risque.

And the really inspired part is that it would also probably work.

A vacation where you are encouraged to have as much sex as possible. Don't know how you turn something like that down.

For those who have been asking how the Palin wild child is doing, well Willow seems to be living the high life.

A photo posted by @wbf_ on Apr 13, 2015 at 8:38pm PDT

According to Willow's Instagram she is currently in Cabo.

Well gee Track gets replaced by a more impressive, though potentially suicidal, version of himself, who Bristol is being married off to in order to increase the family's social media presence and attract more SarahPAC donations, while Willow gets to hang out at a beach in Mexico while riding a freaking horse.

Well I think we know who's the REAL favorite these days, don't we?

Come to think of it she's always been my favorite as well, because she clearly does not take shit from anybody.

In order to take as many vacation days as George W. Bush, President Obama would have to be on vacation for almost every day for the remainder of his term.

Courtesy of Breitbart Unmasked:  

President George W. Bush took 879 days of vacation time during the eight years he was in office — an astounding 30% of his presidency. According to the Washington Post, as of August 15th Barack Obama had taken 150 days of vacation (Or 138 according to the above graphic. But hey, what's twelve days between friends?) in the five years  and seven months he has been president, or roughly 7% of his presidency. 

Using second grade addition and subtraction skills, anyone can determine for themselves that Obama is at least 719 days behind George W. Bush in his bid to become the most vacationing president ever. And he’d better hurry up if that’s really his goal, because he only has 880 days left in office. 

It never fails to amaze me that the Republicans find no irony in accusing this administration of the same corruption, abuses of power, and slothfulness that helped define the administrations of presidents representing their party.

No the President has done NOTHING as bad as Watergate!

No this President has NOT written more executive orders than any other President in the last fifty years.

And no this President has NOT gone on more vacations more than his predecessors.  Not even close.

It's Monday so let's start it off with something sweet.

A little girl was bothered that her daddy worked too hard, so she wrote a letter on his behalf to his employer, who happened to be Google.

Just in case you can't read it clearly: 

Dear Google Worker, 

Can you please make sure when daddy goes to work, he gets one day off. Like he can get a day off on Wednesday. Because daddy only gets a day off on Saturday. 

 From, Katie 

P.S. It is Daddy's BIRTHDAY 

P.P.S. It is summer, you know 

Yeah, it's summer you know. 

Believe it or not, Katie's dad's boss at Google wrote back.

Wow, he got a whole week off for vacation. Nicely done Katie!

You know the only time my daughter got me out of work was when I had to use vacation days to stay home with her when she caught chicken pox.

We still kind of had fun. You know in between the itching and applications of calamine lotion.

(H/T to Business Insider.)

Here we see Tripp Johnston with his sorry excuse for a mother and his new replacement daddy.

Ahh, isn't that sweet?

Here is Tripp, with Bristol, and her boy toy Joey Junker, outside of the happiest place on earth.

Maybe taking Tripp on vacations will help him forget that he was ripped from the loving arms of his father and transported all the way across the country, to punish Levi for finding happiness with his new wife.

"Sorry Tripp your dad was bad and you can't see him anymore. But hey look there are rides and sugary foods here to take your mind off of it!"

Hey Bristol, where is "bar hopping" listed under family values?

(Photo courtesy of Brancy's blog.)

Courtesy of the National Enquirer:  

So much for family values! Party-hearty Bristol Palin has shipped off her 4-year-old son Tripp to Grandma Sarah in Ari­zona so she can go wild on the bar scene in Alaska, say sources. 

“Since her son left last month, it’s been nonstop partying and club­bing for Bristol,” a family insider told The ENQUIRER. 

“Bristol is hitting the local bars and acting like she’s a single girl without a worry in the world.” 

Disclosed an eyewit­ness: “While Tripp is away, Bristol is at play. She’s been a regular at the Mug-Shot Saloon in Wasilla and other bars in nearby Anchorage.” 

To complicate matters, sources say the 22-year-old single mom has been making it difficult for baby daddy Levi Johnston, 23, to spend time with their little boy. 

Levi, her former fiance who mar­ried last year, was stunned a few weeks ago when Bristol told him she would be moving to Arizona with Tripp in September and returning to school. 

Then, just days later, Bristol texted Levi that Tripp was already in Arizona with Mama Grizzly Sarah, the ex-governor of Alaska and former Republican vice-presidential candi­date. 

“Now Levi has no idea when he is going to see his son again,” said the insider. 

Returning to what school? When did Bristol ever actually attend school in Arizona?

As for the drinking I had already received one e-mail saying that Bristol was whooping it up in Anchorage, and was just waiting for confirmation. And here it is.

I have to admit that I am a little surprised that Bristol would visit the Mugshot in Wasilla considering how disliked the family is and how muhc the National Enquirer is willing to pay for information.  I mean I know she is not exactly a rocket scientist but still....

Well I guess NOW we know why Bristol was MIA during the Palin family's SarahPAC funded Arizona "vacation" earlier this month. (Exactly what part of their life is NOT a vacation these days?)

I feel badly for Levi again, sort of.  We all did try to tell him that he needed to fight Bristol in court or she would never stop pulling this kind of thing, but he was never quite willing to take it that far.

I mean let's face it this is the "What's in it for us" family. They do not do ANYTHING for anybody else unless it benefits them in some way. And that includes their children.

Such a shame that this news comes out right after Palin started to pimp her daughter as the newest thing in political pundits. But then again, considering Bristol's past escapades, is anybody really shocked?

Nobody living in Wasilla, that's for damn sure!

Final photo of the day.

You know seeing this would usually make me seethe with jealousy.

But do you know what? If ANYBODY deserves to frolic in the Hawaiian surf after a year like this it is President Barack Obama.

Don't you agree?

President Obama to cut his vacation short in order to deal with "fiscal cliff." Right Wing unimpressed, accuse First Lady of wasting taxpayer money by staying.

Courtesy of the New York Times:

President Obama is planning to cut his Christmas vacation short and return to Washington to make a last-ditch push for a compromise on a tax and spending dispute that remains stubbornly unresolved. 

The White House said Tuesday that the president would leave Wednesday night. His family, however, will stay behind in Hawaii.

Now you may naively believe that this is a good thing as reflects the President's seriousness about getting this  budget situation under control before January 1st, but that only because you don't watch, read, or listen to Right Wing media outlets.

According to them having Michelle and the girls stay behind in Hawaii luxuriating in the Socialist sunshine is costing taxpayers a whole bunch of money, according to some figures that these idiots pulled out of their ass:

The White House does not reveal the price tag for the Obamas’ vacations. But an estimate can be made given several known and likely expenses. 

Assuming Mrs. Obama uses the type of plane she has flown before to Hawaii, the Air Force C-40B Special Mission Aircraft, the cost of a flight from Honolulu to Washington would be about $63,000. If the C-40B must be flown out to Hawaii to retrieve Mrs. Obama, as would seem likely, the first lady’s travel costs could amount to about $126,000, assuming the jet is dispatched from Washington.

Okay so assuming a whole bunch of things it appears that staying behind will cost a lot. We assume. (Of course we could also assume that ALL Presidential vacations have cost a lot of money, but that it didn't really bother the conservatives until THIS President was in the White House. Hmm, I wonder why that is?)

Of course if we continue with those assumptions we could also ascertain that much of the travel expenses connected to the First Lady's time in Hawaii is used for security, something which is perhaps more of a concern with THIS Presidential family than those in the past simply because, with the help of these same Right Wing media outlets, there have been more threats made against this President than any other President in history.  And several of THEM were shot!

And speaking of vacations, the Right Wing talking points will ALWAYS fall flat when faced with the reality that George Bush spent 1,020 days of his two terms in office on vacation. Which is far, far more than any OTHER president in history.

And by the way, that is NOT an assumption, that is a fact!

Now this makes me WANT to go flying. And I hate flying!

Living in Alaska means that every vacation or business trip I have ever gone on always involved an incredibly long and uncomfortable airplane trip out of the state.

I have no problem with the flying itself, but I HATE being cramped into one of those tiny ass airplane seats.  I am not all that tall, nor am I particularly large (Though my shoulders tend to invade the space of the person sitting next to me), however I constantly feel cramped and claustrophobic during these long plane trips.

For that reason it usually takes a rather significant vacation destination or event to get me out of Alaska these days. (The last one was Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Reason.)

However if I could fly while sitting in these luxurious seats on Virgin Atlantic, I think I would spend my days thinking up new and different places to go.

I mean seriously, on Alaska Air all you get are stale peanuts and a coke. If you're lucky.

CNN's Jeanne Moos shows video that nails Piper Palin's behavior during this "family vacation."

And as you can see that second exit from the hotel shows up in this montage, and is the ONLY portion which demonstrates Piper looking happy about the press.

(H/T to CNN)

Update: It looks like Piper is not the ONLY family member giving Sister Sarah sleepless nights:

But the White House hopeful is seemingly taking precautions ahead of her rumoured 2012 Presidential bid and has reportedly pulled her daughter Willow out of school.

The 47-year-old politician will home school the 16-year-old in a bid to keep her out of the spotlight, it has been claimed.

According to the National Enquirer, the former Alaska governor wants to keep any scandal involving her daughter to a minimum.

Willow hit the headlines in the past six months for making homophobic slurs and being caught speeding.

A source told the publication: 'Willow is a wild girl and Sarah fears any sort of screw-up on Willow's part could blow her campaign, so she has her under lockdown at their Wasilla home.'

'Sarah isn't doing this for Willow - she is doing it to protect her public image. The last thing she needs is another teenage daughter winding up pregnant', the insider added.

Willow is counting down the days until she can get away from her mom's supervision,' the insider shared. 'Her older sister Bristol has promised her that the minute she turns 18, she can move in with her.'

Of course those of you who visit here regularly already knew some of this information.