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STERLING, Virginia – While the east coast of the United States was waiting to be battered by Hurricane Dorian on Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump was playing golf.

The president was taking time out while visiting his Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia.

He was still at work however as he continued to churn out tweets about his political grievances.

According to a report on CNN, the president’s visit to Trump National marks the 289th day he has spent at a Trump property, and the 227th day he has spent at one of his golf clubs since he was installed in the White House.

After speaking by telephone with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis earlier Monday, DeSantis, a Republican, said at a press conference that the President is “fully engaged” with federal, state and local officials.

When campaigning for the presidency, Mr Trump often criticised past presidents for spending too much time playing golf.

“Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf,” Trump tweeted in 2014. “Worse than Carter.”

Then on the campaign trail, as reported in an earlier CNN report penned by Dan Merica, the presidential candidate said: “I’m going to be working for you. I’m not going to have time to go play golf.”

Norm Eisen, the chief White House ethics lawyer under Obama, called Trump’s 100th day at a golf property as president, which was reached in March last year, “an ignominious anniversary.”

“First, there is his hypocrisy in criticizing Obama for golfing and then playing much more himself,” Eisen told Merica. “Then there is the fact that he is using his government platform to promote his businesses.”

“Finally, he is also mingling with representatives of corporate interests who are paying to play, and not just golf. Because they have business before the federal government, that creates more conflicts. Trump has hit an unprecedented ethics bogey,” Eisen said at the time in his comments to CNN.

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