President Donald Trump is flying to Florida this weekend, and he is likely to spend his time at Mar-a-Lago, his second home, which means he’s almost certain to hit the golf course. According to the president’s public schedule, he departed from the White House at 3:30 p.m. on Friday en route to Palm Beach, Florida, where the Trump International Golf Club, as well as the waterfront mansion, is located.
The president’s frequent trips to Mar-a-Lago are nothing new, especially on weekends, when he’s usually seen hosting events or golfing. A White House pool report, which came out on Sept. 1 stated that Donald Trump has visited his own golf courses 66 times during his presidential term for playing his favorite sport.
🚨 Video of Trump golfing at his Virginia golf club today. This is what he was doing instead of working to keep the government open. pic.twitter.com/HSuClqfebr
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) October 4, 2025
USA Today reported on Sept. 26 that Roll Call Factbase reviewed Trump’s schedule, showing he spent four more days at his golf clubs since then, and this excludes the late-night arrivals. And if it is assumed that he has golfed every day while he was present at the course, it can be stated that he has golfed 28% of the days in this presidency.
He also marked Halloween with a lavish celebration at Mar-a-Lago, whereas a day before that, he was in a trick-or-treating celebration at the White House itself. A White House correspondent for conservative-leaning news outlet NewsNation stated in a post on X, reflecting on the theme of the party – “A Little Party Never Killed Nobody,” the name of a song in the soundtrack of the 2013 film, “The Great Gatsby.” The story was reportedly first told by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the famed 1925 novel. There, it is stated that it follows people at both ends of vast wealth as well as class disparities during the Roaring Twenties.
The U.S. federal #government shutdown has reached 38 days, officially becoming the longest in American history, surpassing the previous record set during President Trump’s first term.
Sources: Reuters, CNN, NY Times, Congressional Research Service, News reports pic.twitter.com/pRZvNAKMrz
— WorldVisualized (@WV_on_X) November 8, 2025
All these talks are coming up as the US is facing a situation where it has been in the longest government shutdown in its history. It has reached 38 days, with government workers being unpaid, American airspace facing a crisis, and also, nutrition assistance recipients scrambling to find food, concerning the fact that their benefits ran out on November 1.
According to reports, the government maintained about $5 billion in emergency funds for paying out SNAP benefits during the shutdown, but the US Department of Agriculture still announced last month that it wouldn’t allocate the funding to pay out benefits for November.
