# Is a 17 day vacation a lot in the US?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 6, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-17-day-vacation-a-lot-in-the-us/792957 "2017-08-06T23:50:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-17-day-vacation-a-lot-in-the-us/792957/81 "2017-08-08T11:05:41Z")

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I think there are a few factors:

1. 17 days is on the longish end of vacation for Americans and probably out of reach for many if not most;
2. Trump has spent a lot of his time golfing, in fact he leaves the WH most weekends;
3. He is once again spending his time at a Trump owned facility at great expense to the tax payers; and
4. He criticized Obama for vacationing, although Obama vacationed much less than Trump at this point in his presidency.

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