Lame duck President Obama is on his last taxpayer-funded Hawaiian vacation for Christmas. As we were relentlessly reminded during the campaign, the office of the Presidency requires focus, attention, and the ability to take emergency phone calls at 3 am. Unless you are Obama, in which case – screw it all! It’s time to golf!

Nope, I’m not kidding. A Russian ambassador is assassinated, people have been run over with a truck in Berlin (following in the footsteps of the attack in Nice and the attempted attack at Ohio State University), but this president has mentally checked out. Nothing is going to take him away from his precious taxpayer-funded golf time in Kailua. (Video is from two years ago – clearly, this is a favorite golf course.)

The first email shows that Obama has directed his staff to keep him updated on the situation in Turkey regarding the assassination of the Russian Ambassador.

From the White House, per Principal Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz:

“This morning the President was briefed by his National Security Team on the assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey in Ankara today. The President directed his team to provide updates as warranted.”

Meanwhile, at 10:10 a.m. in Kailua, the press van prepares to depart the rental house where we’ve been holding.

In a following email, we are informed that Obama is leaving the rental home to go play golf.

The President and his motorcade departed the Kailua neighborhood where the First Family rents a vacation home at 10:21 a.m. Spectators on the street threw shakas and recorded photos or video on cell phones as the motorcade made the 10-minute drive to Mid-Pacific Country Club, where the President will be golfing under cloudy skies.

This pattern of playing golf after people have been brutally murdered is a typical M.O. of Obama’s.

No wonder people think Donald Trump is already president. (Or Ash Carter.) The media has given Obama cover all these years every single time he’s slipped out to play golf, so why should anything change now? You expect Obama to care that Europe is being dominated by terror and Russia? Pfffft. It’s not his problem any more. (Like he ever thought these things WERE his problem.)

Over one hundred years ago, a political assassination plunged Europe into the first World War. Right now, in the aftermath of another assassination that has the potential to ignite an international powder keg, Obama is off lounging in Hawaii. Don’t worry, the staff back in Washington will let him know if he needs to set down the fruity drink and golf wedge in order to make a call on the “Red Phone” to scold Putin. Of course, he’s never used it for anything SERIOUS before, like people dying. He’s only used it to scold Russia about hacking the DNC emails. Priorities, people.

In the meantime, FORE!