(CNN)Donald Trump repeatedly attacked then-President Barack Obama for golfing during times of tragedy and disaster from 2011 to 2016, a CNN KFILE review of his comments finds.
In media appearances, posts on social media, and speeches as a commentator and later as candidate for president, Trump said Obama’s golfing made it appear he was tired of being president, adding that Obama should have given up golf when his White House term started.
“He may play more golf than any human being in America, and I’m not sure that’s good for the President,” Trump said in one January 2015 comment.
The President is now facing his own criticism for golfing twice during Memorial Day weekend as the coronavirus death toll in the United States approaches 100,000 — an action he defended as “exercise” accompanied by attacks on Obama’s golfing habits.
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