In media appearances, posts on social media, and speeches as a commentator and later as candidate for president, Trump said Obama's golfing made it appear he was tired of being president, adding that Obama should have given up golf when his White House term started.

"He may play more golf than any human being in America, and I'm not sure that's good for the President," Trump said in one January 2015 comment.

The President is now facing his own criticism for golfing twice during Memorial Day weekend as the coronavirus death toll in the United States approaches 100,000 -- an action he defended as "exercise" accompanied by attacks on Obama's golfing habits.

Trump previously drew criticism for golfing during Hurricane Dorian in September of 2017 and later that month attended a golf tournament and his own New Jersey club after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico.

Trump said the media never covered, "all of the time Obama spent on the golf course, often flying to Hawaii in a big, fully loaded 747, to play.

What did that do to the so-called Carbon Footprint?"

"Barack was always playing golf," he added in a tweet.

Since taking office, Trump has golfed and traveled more than Obama, a CNN fact check on Monday reported -- with the President spending one out of every 4.92 days so far at a golf property.

Speaking on Fox News in March 2011, Trump criticized Obama for golfing when Japan was hit by the earthquake and tsunami that damaged several nuclear facilities.

"This is catastrophic trouble, I think is totally inappropriate."

In a tweet on November 18, 2013, a day after several tornado outbreaks struck the Midwest, Trump tweeted, "President Obama played golf yesterday???"

Trump's trip this past weekend to the golf course was his first since March 8, when there were 550 cases of the coronavirus in the US.

2014 criticisms

Trump was a frequent critic of Obama golfing in 2014, attacking him for golfing after the beheading of journalist James Foley and when there were two confirmed cases of Ebola in the United States.

"It was a terrible image," Trump said of Obama golfing after a news conference of Foley's beheading.

Speaking on Fox News' "On The Record" in October 2014, Trump said Obama's golfing after the beheading made it appear he was tired of being president.

"You wouldn't think that that's something that's not a PR person has to say it's not a good time for you to be playing golf," he said.

Eleven total cases of Ebola were treated in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

2015 and White House run

In a speech in New Hampshire two months prior to announcing his 2016 presidential run, Trump criticized Obama for golfing, citing the September 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of certain non-profit conservative groups for delayed processing of applications.

"Somebody is that shouldn't be."

Trump later criticized Obama for visiting, saying in a tweet, "President Obama should have gone to Louisiana days ago, instead of golfing.