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SLACKER IN CHIEF

WHERE’S DONALD? Most weekends, Trump flees the White House like a factory worker screaming “TGIF!”
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GETTY

The week that began on August 8, 2011, found President Barack Obama in the midst of what The New York Times would call “the most dismal stretch of his presidency.”

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