Now according to Obama to add 4 trillion to the national debt was "unpatriotic." So tell me Mr. President is it still "unpatriotic" to have added almost 8 trillion to the national debt? According to Treasury Department figures the national debt was $10.62 trillion ($10,626,877,048,913.08) when Obama took office on January 20, 2009. As of August 22, 2011, the most recent date for which data are available, the national debt stood at $14.6 trillion ($14,612,435,498,338.62) and rising. When Bush entered the presidency in January 2001, the national debt was $5.72 trillion ($5,727,776,738,304.64).