If you’re taking a load off this weekend, you’re in good company: So is the president. Again.
Joe Biden just completed a landmark—for his family, not yours.
Biden took his 100th vacation to Delaware since 2020.
Last week, Biden—debuting his new strategy of walking with other people surrounding him, to hide his painfully show shuffle—ignored reporters’ questions on his way to yet another Delaware holiday.
This isn’t exactly new behavior. Joe Biden “has spent 460 days — 38% of his presidency — on vacation,” the Republican National Committee pointed out.
Crooked Joe Biden (surrounded by his handlers) ignores questions as he shuffles off to Delaware for another long weekend of rest.
He has spent 460 days — 38% of his presidency — on vacation. pic.twitter.com/DA8STIxYwI
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 4, 2024
“If it is the weekend—and sometimes even when it isn’t—President Biden is probably in Delaware,” reported the Wall Street Journal in February.
Biden’s prodigious vacation habits makes him the lazier American president on record—beating George H.W. Bush, who spent 36 percent of his time outside the White House. (Jimmy Carter only spent five percent of his four years on vacation.)
Joe Biden is “the American Idle,” slammed the New York Post last September.
If going on vacation isn’t new, some strange things took place this time out: Reporters, who never lose sight of the president while he’s on official, public business, lost sight of Biden. Twice.
“It’s rare for the pool to lose touch with the commander-in-chief at all. One veteran White House reporter who is frequently part of the traveling press corps estimated that they had witnessed it fewer than five times in nearly a decade,” reported Politico.
Less than five times in 10 years—and then twice in the same trip? Does that sound like a coincidence, or a plan?
Biden’s team says there’s nothing to it: Just a handful of “hiccups” hid Biden’s confused performance from the press, said Nicolette Jaworski, White House director of press advance. “We don’t want hiccups to happen. But things don’t always move as smoothly as we would like,” she said.
While Biden sinks his toes into the warm Rehoboth Beach sand, life isn’t moving as smoothly as most Americans would like.
Biden’s self-indulgent vacation took place while “inflation has RISEN 19.4%, weekly wages are DOWN 3.9%, (and) 10 million illegals have flooded the border,” said Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wisc., on X (formerly Twitter).
Joe Biden took his 460th day of vacation this weekend all the while:
❌Inflation has RISEN 19.4%
❌Weekly wages are DOWN 3.9%
❌10 million illegals have flooded the border
❌Antisemitic agitators turned colleges into illegal campsites— Rep. Tom Tiffany (@RepTiffany) May 8, 2024
“Look, the president’s really busy,” insisted White House spokesperson and spinmeister Karine Jean-Pierre.
She tried to reassure reporters that “obviously, he probably catches up during the day,” and he’s “gonna focus on the American people.”
According to KJP, Joe Biden is “busy.” He’s spent more time on vacation than any modern president. pic.twitter.com/XWfftFkhAQ
— GOP (@GOP) May 8, 2024
While Biden goes to the beach, Americans got taken to the cleaners.
Almost half of all Americans say they will skip summer vacation this summer.
Their top reason isn’t hard to imagine: two-thirds of those Americans say they just can’t afford it, according to a survey taken by Bankrate.
More than one out of three Americans—36 percent in all—say they will go into debt in order to take a holiday this summer.
American’s aren’t just feeling the Biden-based summertime blues. When asked, 62 percent of Americans said they would cut back on Christmas spending last winter—and a full 34 percent of Americans bought no Christmas gifts in 2023 because of their financial shape, according to a survey from WalletHub.
Between empty Christmas stockings and summer staycations, Americans have hit springtime lulls.
Consumer confidence in April hit its lowest rate since July 2022.
“According to April’s write-in responses, elevated price levels, especially for food and gas, dominated consumer’s concerns, with politics and global conflicts as distant runners-up,” according to Dana Peterson, chief economist at the Conference Board. “Consumers became less positive about the current labor market situation, and more concerned about future business conditions, job availability, and income.”
As usual, the middle class is getting screwed in “Middle-Class Joe” Biden’s America. People who make less than $50,000 a year say they feel as confident as ever. It’s only middle-income respondents who said their hope in their economic present and future has “weakened.”
Of course, these problems impact people who suffered from Bidenflation, not the Biden clan.
“Seventy-four percent of respondents with annual household incomes of $100,000 or more are planning a summer vacation, which is more than lower income respondents,” according to Bankrate.com.
Joe Biden makes $400,000 a year as president—and millions more dollars from overseas sources, as documents produced by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
Biden’s presidency has been one long day at the beach for him and his left-wing handlers. Meanwhile, the American Dream is drifting out to sea—and far out of reach for the average American.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”