Prior to President Obama's end of year press conference on Friday, MSNBC host Chris Matthews took issue with the president spending 16 days in Hawaii golfing without having a clear strategy to combat ISIS.
"First of all, 16 days of golf coming and golfing pictures at a time where we are facing a terrorist threat. That's not going to be good for him," Matthews said. "Secondly, I think he wants to show that he's got something going against terrorism where it doesn't seem to be that he does, right now. We don't really understand our strategy."
Obama has come under scrutiny for his comments that ISIS had been contained and for not having a more direct strategy for combating the barbaric terrorist group.
The president is scheduled to leave for vacation shortly after his traditional press conference. The first stop will be in San Bernardino, California to visit the families of the terrorist attack that killed 14 people and injured 22. Perpetrators Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik are believed to have been radicalized by ISIS.
In a primetime address to the nation, Obama called the situation a terrorist attack. The FBI opened a counterterrorism investigation into the attack on Dec. 3.