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 referred to as Twitter.
Donald Trump’s eldest son claimed the Biden White Home had solely introduced the president was going to go to the location 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.
“Individuals aren’t falling for this anymore,” wrote the Trump scion.
“Joe Biden has spent 40% of his presidency on trip & usually calls a lid on his day earlier than midday,” he added. “He’s had loads of time to go, however couldn’t be bothered until an election. Folks aren’t giving him 4 extra years to maintain destroying America!”
Individuals aren’t falling for it anymore. Joe Biden has spent 40% of his presidency on trip & usually calls a lid on his day earlier than midday. He’s had loads of time to go, however couldn’t be bothered until an election. Folks aren’t giving him 4 extra years to maintain destroying America! https://t.co/KnTN0mtDvO
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 31, 2024
Biden has spent round that quantity of his presidency away from the White Home, however usually it’s working from house in his house state of Delaware.
“It’s 2022, not 1922. If the remainder of the nation can do business from home, so can the president of the US,” stated Michael LaRosa, a former press secretary to first girl Jill Biden, defending the president’s time away to CNN in 2022.
Critics of Trump Jr.’s spin pointed to his father’s personal document 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 “government time” ― which concerned watching TV and making calls to mates and advisers.
Following his 2020 election defeat to Biden, Trump’s every day schedule within the ultimate weeks of his presidency stated he “will work from early within the morning till late within the night.”
“He’ll make many calls and have many conferences,” it added.
There’s nothing you may say or do to confront MAGA gaslighting that received’t be met with extra MAGA gaslighting
They’ll say something to make themselves the sufferer and hero in all the pieces. And there may be nothing you may say to do something about it.
That’s the MAGA gaslighting paradox
— Luke Zaleski (@ZaleskiLuke) January 31, 2024
I by no means heard you complain about your dad {golfing} each different day so possibly it is best to sit this one out.
— Rod Johnson (@johnsonrod09532) January 31, 2024
Properly your father spent 95% of his day tweeting 😂
— Andrew Mc Cormack (@phpfyi) January 31, 2024