Joe Biden’s presidency was a sleeper.
At 82 years old, Biden took more time off than any other president in recent history, with 577 out of 1,463 days in office—approximately 39%—spent on vacation, according to alarming data compiled by the Republican National Committee.
To put this into perspective, the average American, who is allotted 11 paid vacation days each year, would need to work for 52 years to accumulate the same amount of vacation time Biden did during his four years as president.
“Considering how awful his misguided policies were and the various crises they created, from the border to inflation, imagine the damage he would have done if he worked every day?” quipped Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn). “I’m not sure if we should be mad or thankful he worked so little.”
This striking figure includes 43 of the 70 days—61%—after Biden was urged by members of his own party on July 21 to drop his re-election bid.
Biden’s vacation habits outpaced those of the previous “Vacationer-in-Chief,” George H.W. Bush, who spent 37% of his presidency—543 of his 1,461 days—away from the White House.
Biden’s time off also dwarfed the amount of downtime taken by Donald Trump, who spent 26% of his first term away from Washington, D.C., or 381 of his 1,461 days in office, according to records.
Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama each took only 11% of their time in office for vacations during their two terms, and the highly productive Jimmy Carter only took 79 days off, or 5% of his single term.
George W. Bush spent 1,020 days—35%—of his 2,922 days in office away from D.C., including frequent stays at his Texas ranch, according to reports from the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Before being pushed out of the party’s presidential race in favor of VP Kamala Harris by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other former allies, Biden had already been spending significant time at his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Biden then spent the next couple of months vacationing between Delaware, California’s Santa Ynez Valley wine region, the Camp David presidential retreat, and his other home in Wilmington, Delaware, according to records.
This included an extraordinary 23-day stretch of vacation from August 8 to September 2.
Later in the year, Biden took trips to Nantucket in late November and to St. Croix in the Virgin Islands in late December. Despite this, he did show up to work for most of the last two months of his presidency.
During this period, he issued the highest number of presidential pardons and commutations in U.S. history, including one for his son Hunter Biden, who was facing federal felony charges for gun possession and tax-related offenses.
“Thanks to the mandate delivered by voters in November, Joe Biden and [former Vice President] Kamala Harris are now on a permanent vacation,” said RNC Communications Director Zach Parkinson. “And thanks to President Trump, our country is back on track.”
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Wicked evil man. A gold-digger of the worst kind. Dr. Jill is just as evil. Ripping off and lying to the American taxpayers.
“Joe Biden’s presidency was a sleeper.”
Regardless of the number of his vacation days, and despite the play-on-words, this is obviously not an accurate assessment.
FYI Joe Biden, Obama’s VP, was never president. You have to be a first-class idiot to believe otherwise. It shouldn’t take more than a minute to compare a photo of Biden when he was Obama’s VP with the fake Biden as acting president – and it has nothing to do with age. Learn to trust conspiracy theorists who have been proven to always be right.
Didn’t he take 4 years vacation while president?
This article is misleading because it apparently defines “vacation” as time spent away from Washington, DC other than official trips, but in reality presidents can and do continue working when they are on “vacation.” For example, Trump goes to his home in Florida frequently and there is no question he is working a lot of the time he is there and even while traveling on Air Force One.
“At 82 years old, Biden took more time off than any other president in recent history, with 577 out of 1,463 days in office…
“To put this into perspective, the average American, who is allotted 11 paid vacation days each year, would need to work for 52 years to accumulate the same amount of vacation time Biden did during his four years as president.”
This Trump voter calls baloney on those numbers. The “577 days” includes weekends, which most people don’t work. 52 (weeks) multiplied by 4 (years) multiplied by 2 (weeekend days) = 416 (days). Add the 10 legal holidays per year, multiplied by 4 years, and we’re up to 456 days before counting even a single day as “vacation”.
577 – 456 = 121 vacation days, which is 30.25 days per year – still a very nice number, but hardly the jaw-dropping total the article states Biden took.