Of course, Trump has also not ventured past the shoreline of the Atlantic Ocean, nor has he traveled north of the 49th parallel or south of the Rio Grande. Trump’s sojourns as president have been almost exclusively to places where he feels naturally comfortable: Eastern states that voted for him and properties that bear his name.

Using pool reports covering the period from Trump’s inauguration through the end of April, we put together a map of where Trump has gone. He’s made seven trips to Mar-a-Lago, his resort in West Palm Beach, Fla., and several jaunts over to Sterling, Va., where he has another golf club. In total, those trips alone constitute nearly 12,000 of the 16,000 miles he’s accrued, counting travel to and from the locations. He’s made some other stops while en route to Mar-a-Lago or while there — a visit to Charleston, S.C., and a rally in Melbourne, Fla. — but most of the flight time is simply taking Air Force One from Washington to Palm Beach and back. (For our travel estimates, we calculated travel from the White House to the center of each destination city, so our figures should be considered only estimates.)

Compare that with Barack Obama.

Through April of 2009, Obama had tallied twice as many miles as Trump, hitting California, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. Only once during this period did he head back to his home town of Chicago, for Valentine’s Day.

Of course, the president isn’t the administration official who is expected to hit the road on behalf of the country. That’s the secretary of state. Trump’s appointee for the position, Rex Tillerson, has easily outpaced his boss in his travel through April.

Tillerson’s visited Europe, Asia and Mexico during his months in office. He also traveled to New York at the end of April to address the United Nations.

If we’re going to include Tillerson, of course, we should also include Obama’s secretary of state, a person with whom we believe Trump is familiar.

On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton boasted about the number of miles she traveled as secretary of state, prompting Carly Fiorina to dismiss the statistic as denoting “an activity, not an accomplishment.”

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At the end of this month, Trump is scheduled to travel to the Middle East, his first trip overseas as president and one of only a handful since he began running. He was supposed to travel to the Middle East as a candidate in 2015, but canceled the trip. During the campaign, he did go to Mexico City to meet with Mexico’s president.