Donald is golfing and visiting in fly in fly out appearances. Maybe it helps with morale.
I think it is true that the president plays golf, just as most of the recent presidents have done.
He doesnt play as much as Barry did (if we are supposed to be calling presidents by their first names here?). Obama played 333 rounds of golf--or 306 depending on whose report you trust the more--while Trump has played 29 as of this month. But because he owns several golf courses, it is a fact that he has used them as meeting places to conduct presidential business, consult with people, conduct interviews, etc. out of the range of the media. And Obama often took lengthy vacations in order to play golf, which Trump does not do.
The more important thing is that he is fairly called a workaholic when it comes to his job as president. There has been no president in my lifetime who worked more hours every day at the duties of the presidency than the current one...and that's irrespective of whether we favor or oppose his policies.
(As a matter of fact, that's a major reason why he beat Hillary in 2016. While she was off the campaign trail for days at a time, Donald Trump was holding rallies and giving speeches in three or four different states in a single day. I don't remember many candidates doing that in prior years.)
