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Article snippet: BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Here is how a vacation day starts for President Trump. He wakes up, he turns on the television, he sees something that makes him mad, and he reaches for his Twitter-enabled smartphone to vent. In other words, it’s an awful lot like the way he starts his workday. So when Mr. Trump protests that he is not really on vacation, as he spends 17 days this month away from Washington, he has a point. For Mr. Trump, there is no vacation from grievance and frustration. He does not define daily life by such easy delineations as office hours and home hours. He may take a relaxed approach at work, and he may engage in politics from his bedroom in Bedminster, N.J. To be sure, no president is ever really on vacation, not in the sense of escaping to the beach, clearing out the head and genuinely leaving the office behind. Whether it was Bill Clinton at his luxury rental in Martha’s Vineyard or George W. Bush at his ranch near Crawford, Tex., the world has a way of following a president. Barack Obama was singing Christmas carols in Hawaii when an aide interrupted to tell him that a man with explosives in his underwear had tried to blow up a passenger plane. As other presidents have done, Mr. Trump had his daily intelligence briefing on Monday. He followed it up with an hourlong telephone call with Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson to talk about the confrontation with North Korea over its ballistic missile program. His chief of staff, John F. Kelly, who was al... Link to the full article to read more