U.S. President Donald Trump speaks while U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, FIFA President Gianni Infantino and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stand by his side, as he meets with the White House Task Force on the FIFA World Cup 2026 in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 17, 2025.
American television host and conservative political commentator S.E. Cupp had an unexpected response to news that President Donald Trump spends an exorbitant amount of time on the golf course rather than manning the White House.
Forbes reported this week that Trump is spending nearly 30 percent of his second term chasing balls around on the green, with Forbes Senior Editor Dan Alexander telling CNN anchor Erin Burnett that these are “long days,” too.
“If you count the days, it's about 165 of his first 600 days, in his second term, that he's visited one of his golf courses. But what's more surprising is that these aren't short stays,” said Alexander. “And so if you add up the hours, you get to more than 1,400 hours on the golf courses. And that doesn't even count the time that he's at Mar-a-Lago. This is just the amount of time that he's at the golf courses where he's often playing or sometimes doing other things like meetings [and] having lunch.
Alexander also reported that Trump had his chef serve hotdogs to his Secret Service team while killing time at his national golf club outside Washington, DC. But then the Trump-owned club billed the secret service, according to a club insider.
But to this news, Cupp appeared nonplussed, even grateful.
“Um, I'm glad he's spending a lot of time golfing,” Cupp told Burnett. “And I mean that sincerely because time on the golf course is not time spent starting trade wars with our neighbors, starting real wars with Iran and making policy decisions. Forget whether you're Republican or Democrat, [these are] terrible for Americans, terrible for farmers, terrible for ranchers, terrible for working people, terrible for college students. Just terrible, terrible policies.”
“I mean, any other administration, and I'd be wagging my finger at all this time on the golf course,” Cupp added hastily. “But I'm happy he's there and not doing other things. About the hot dogs — I mean, this is not surprising. He's been bilking American taxpayers and grifting off of them for years.”
In the first administration, Cupp reminded Burnett that Trump was charging Secret Service members for staying in Trump-brand hotels, and “double billing” them.
“He bilked his own supporters out of their own money with the Stop the Steal nonsense money, which he used to divert to his lawyers. He's always been drifting off of the American public. This is not surprising news to me. It is terrible, but it's not surprising.”
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