Joe Biden Set A New Record While He Was President — And It’s Not A Good One

 President Joe Biden abruptly exited the 2024 presidential race in late July — after a disastrous debate performance and a series of troubling interviews and public appearances — but he did still manage to etch his name in the presidential record books.

Biden, according to data compiled and published by the Republican National Committee, took 577 vacation days out of the 1,463 days he spent holding the office of the presidency. By percentages, that amounts to 39% of his total time in office — more vacation than any modern president has taken.

The RNC was already tracking Biden’s excessive vacation habits long before he left office.

As the New York Post noted, average Americans would have to put in 52 years of work — without ever using a vacation day — to accrue the number of days, at a rate of 11 days per year, that Biden blew through in just four years.

“That’s a day off for every 2.5 days on,” Noam Blum added.

 

David Limbaugh also added context, saying, “These are apparently the days identified as vacation days. But in truth I doubt that 10% of his days in office were anything remotely approaching working days.”

Biden’s vacation days outnumbered the 381 taken by President Donald Trump during his first term of 1,461 days — which comes out to approximately 26% of his time in office — and even managed to surpass the previous record set by the late George H.W. Bush, who spent 543 of his 1,461 days as president, or 37%, on vacation.

Former President George W. Bush had a slightly lower vacation-to-work ratio, taking 1020 vacation days out of his 2,922 days in office (35%). The late President Ronald Reagan and former President Barack Obama came in at 11%, and the late President Jimmy Carter vacationed for just 5% of his presidency.

Biden put them all to shame when, after being unceremoniously ousted from the Democrats’ 2024 presidential ticket, he took 23 days off in a row beginning on August 8th.

Biden also made headlines when he issued 39 pardons and nearly 1,500 sentence commutations on December 12, 2024 — the “largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.”