Each week the editorial board reflects on a current issue in Our View. The position taken does not reflect the opinions of everyone on the Hilltop Views staff. This week’s editorial board is composed of Viewpoints Editors Sully Lockett, Kenneth Phipps, and Lauren Sanchez.

In the infancy of his presidency, Donald Trump has gone golfing on 21 of his 66 days in office, according to the Washington Post. (This, incidentally, almost matches the number of times that Trump tweeted to complain about Barack Obama golfing as president — 26.)

We here at the Hilltop Views, as hard-working, taxpaying American citizens who take pride in our work, would like to indignantly point out an oft-overlooked criticism of our president: if he had any normal job, President Trump would have been fired weeks ago.

From his random tweeting undermining his own policies and party, his lax attitude towards spending time in his actual office, his visible and vocal snubs of other foreign leaders and his flagrant violations of self-interest clauses, any company that wanted to turn a respectable, well-earned profit would have thrown someone doing all that in the CEO’s office out on his ass.

So why are we letting the president do it?

Trump’s recent conduct in office is an affront to American values. Baby boomers constantly lecture the younger generations about slacking off and not doing legitimate work to earn a living. Meanwhile the president has been teeing off in Florida in his Mar-a-Lago courses, blatantly violating national security protocols and making substantial financial gains off of his newfound presidential status.

In an ordinary American company, a person that made this much money using the privileges of their position would be fired for embezzlement. For the president, upcharging his patrons at Mar-a-Lago by $100k and gaining increased foreign capital at his international hotels is somehow just a perk of the job.

Your average fast food employee would seem to work harder and longer (and earn substantially less) than our decrepit president, even before considering the money that the conflicts of interest are earning him.

If Trump were an employee at KFC or McDonald’s and took that much time off to go golfing, he would be up and out of there. But he isn’t flipping burgers, he’s running our country; at least he’s supposed to be.

By now he should be memorizing the phrase, “would you like fries with that?” but he isn’t. He’s still in office, and he’s still running us into the ground.

This is not to imply that being the president of these United States isn’t a demanding job that merits some vacation time and mental rest; however, we think it important to point out that the man who campaigned as a candidate ‘of the people” wouldn’t last a week in any of our shoes.

But what do you expect from a man who weaseled his way out of the draft four different times, yet claims to support the military? Do we see consistency and understanding? Or merely the same venal hypocrisy that currently sees him the least popular president in recent history?

We rather think it’s the latter.