81-year-old President Joe Biden, the oldest U.S. president to ever hold office, has taken enough vacation days to match what a typical employee would accumulate over 48 years.  Biden has been on vacation all his political life.

     The Republican National Committee stated that Biden has taken 532 vacation days so far in his administration, or 40.3% of the 1,326 days he has been in office until the end of August.  However, according to left-wing outlets like The Washington Post, whose website motto reads: “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” they claim that Biden has spent 256 days either on vacation or at one of his Delaware residences through May 22, 2023, much less than the 532-days figure. The Washington Post cited the White House’s reported number of days that the president has taken personal trips.

     Nevertheless, it has also been disputed by conservative commentators that the White House tends to not count vacation days as long as Biden has “worked” in some way, but the vague phrasing does not explain whether they consider, for example, Biden simply sending an email on his phone as “work,” and whether anything else as trivial would retract from his counted vacation days.  “The image of Biden fast asleep and lying flat on his back in his chair at the beach while America [and] the world is on fire, will define the Biden presidency,” said former White House budget office general counsel Mark Paoletta.

“Inflation has been out of control; prices still way too high; our border overrun with millions of illegal aliens committing violent crimes on our citizens; the world in a perilous state; and all Biden wants to do is go on vacation and check out—for more than 530 days,” he continued. After dropping out of the 2024 presidential race, Biden took even more time off this summer. The Washington Post argued that this is likely because “he’s annoyed with fellow Democrats” who “turned against him and strong-armed him into not seeking reelection.”  However, the pace for the entire year is comparable to that of the Biden administration’s third year, when the The Post described him as “on pace to become America’s most idle commander in chief.”