CNN's New Day on Thursday blasted President Donald Trump for spending over $21 million visiting his Mar-a-Lago estate, but excused the price tag of former President Barack Obama's golf and vacation outings. "The President is on pace to spend more money on vacations in his very first year than former President Barack Obama did in eight years in office," anchor Alisyn Camerota said.

"It shows that President Trump in just 84 days has already spent travel costs. $21 million in 84 days," Camerota added. "President Obama spent $97 million in eight years. In other words, he will spend more in one year than Obama did in eight years. The right-wing media and Republicans were upset with him. President Obama played golf. What is going on with this price tag?"

Bloomberg Executive Editor and Trump Nation author Timothy O'Brien snidely remarked, "What is going on is hypocrisy. That hypocrisy registers with Trump’s core supporters. He is fairly flagrant about it. You know, while he’s traveling he is engaging in that proletarian activity of golf."

Speaking of hypocrisy, in 2010, CNN featured Democratic operative Paul Begala to excuse Barack Obama’s pricey vacations. The CNN contributor dismissed as “silly” “when people attack Obama for going on vacation.” He added, “Of all of the concerns that Americans may have, they do not need to worry whether President Obama is a hard-working man. They may agree or disagree with his policies, but there is just no doubt that the guy is busting his rear end."

In 2016, Reuters swooned over Obama playing his 300th round of golf since taking office. So where is the journalistic consistency on golfing vacations? (It should be pointed out that MSNBC on Thursday also adopted sudden concern about presidential getaways.)

Back on New Day, O'Brien accused Trump of spending more on himself while proposing cuts to the government he leads. He said Trump is "not really showing any desire to cut back on his own budget at a time when he is asking the federal government as a whole to watch its waistline."

Camerota proceeded to highlight Trump's federal budget proposal released last month.

Let’s look at that waistline. Here are the things that President Trump is asking taxpayers to sacrifice and where the federal budget should cut. You see the he wants to cut the IRS by $239 million. Essential air service. $175 million. Housing. Public housing, $35 million. Science, $102 million. Loan guarantees, down by a million. His travel in the first year or two will outpace all of these cuts.

Washington Post National Business Reporter Drew Harwell inserted his two cents and said, "The math makes sense only if you are supporting President Trump on the basis you don't like belt tightening. The list goes on. There is medical research costs and contributions to Meals on Wheels from the federal budget. The federal budget is a big thing."

Although Harwell conceded that the almost-$22-million pricetag is "a drop in the bucket" compared to overall federal spending, like Camerota and O'Brien, he slammed the President for acting hypocritically: "But, if you care about where your tax money is going and you care about government waste, you will care about the fact that President Trump is going for the seventh weekend to Mar-a-Lago this weekend."

Harwell added, "He has not changed the Trump lifestyle. That the extravagance you saw with Trump as a businessman has continued into the presidency," despite repeatedly criticizing President Obama for taking these trips.

The segment shifted to highlights of then-candidate Trump chastising Obama for golfing.

Here is the transcript of the April 13th exchange: