{"id":5904,"date":"2026-08-24T14:39:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=5904"},"modified":"2026-08-24T14:39:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:39:44","slug":"trump-ripped-obama-for-flying-long-distances-to-play-golf-now-hes-flying-to-the-irish-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=5904","title":{"rendered":"Trump ripped Obama for flying long distances to play golf. Now he\u2019s flying to the Irish Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The trip is the most recent example of how the president blurs the line between official business and travel in ways that can benefit his family business. His sons have taken over day-to-day control of the Trump Organization, but the September trip once again lays bare how Trump has\u00a0leveraged his second term to pad his family\u2019s profits\u00a0in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=5902\">Jack Welch fired him from GE. He became a Fortune 500 CEO 3 years later<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump is scheduled to be in Ireland on Sept. 12 and 13 and will join an event with U.S. embassy workers and business officials before attending the golf tournament at Trump International Golf Links Ireland in Doonbeg, according to the White House official, who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump\u2019s course in Bedminster, New Jersey, hosted a LIV golf tournament in August. Another Trump course at Doral in South Florida is scheduled to host a PGA event, the Cadillac Championship, in March 2028, and Trump has talked about his course in Turnberry, Scotland, hosting the British Open, which it last did in 2009, before Trump bought the resort. A return of the British Open to that property continues to face\u00a0major logistical\u00a0hurdles.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, Trump went to Scotland for five days\u00a0to golf at Turnberry\u00a0and later\u00a0inaugurated a new Trump golf course\u00a0in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire. The White House refused to call that\u00a0midsummer jaunt\u00a0a vacation, but insisted it was a working trip \u2014 and Trump found time between games to talk about trade with then-British Prime Minister\u00a0Keir Starmer\u00a0and European Commission President\u00a0Ursula von der Leyen.<\/p>\n<p>Trump frequently travels to golf courses he owns in Florida and New Jersey, as well as a course in Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. But he is not known to take lengthy holidays.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t take vacations. What\u2019s the point?\u201d he wrote in his 2004 book, \u201cThink Like a Billionaire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=5900\">New York added 30,640 tech workers in 3 years, surpassing San Francisco as AI hiring surges<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s trip to Ireland will have him leaving the country right after he tries to rally support for Republicans in the November elections as the GOP holds its first-ever national convention ahead of the midterm elections. The unusual event, scheduled in Dallas on Sept. 9-10, was Trump\u2019s idea to try to galvanize support by staging something similar to the conventions both parties normally have before presidential elections.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As recently as last summer, Trump derided Barack Obama for flying long distances for golf as president \u2014 something Trump himself is now doing.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey talked about the carbon footprint and then Obama hops onto a 747, Air Force One, and flies to Hawaii to play a round of golf and comes back,\u201d Trump said last year.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Aside from the Scotland getaway, the longest stretch of downtime Trump took last year was when he went to his\u00a0Mar-a-Lago\u00a0club in Florida in early December and stayed past Christmas \u2014 though even that trip featured visits by Ukrainian President\u00a0Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u00a0and Israeli Prime Minister\u00a0Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=5898\">Top CD rates from major banks on August 24, 2026: Chase CDs, Bank of America CDs, Citibank CDs, and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The trip was first confirmed by the New York Post.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Associated Press writer Michelle L. 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