Watching television is not technically part of the job, but it might be better than him actually trying to do the job.
Axios reports that a "White House source" has handed over Donald Trump's White House schedule for nearly every day since the midterm elections. The actual numbers appear to confirm what has long been reported about Trump's prezidenting habits: He doesn't do much of it.
Approximately 60% of Trump's schedule, according to the released documents, consists of "executive time", the euphemism adopted by Trump's staff to describe the time Trump spends watching television, reading papers, and doing other things that may or may not be classified as actually doing work. And though Trump supposedly gets out of bed before six, he "never" arrives in the Oval Office before 11am, the time of his first regularly-scheduled meetings.
By one or two in the afternoon, Trump seems to have again lost interest; his "executive time" starts popping up again around then, in chunks, until his 5pm quitting time.
All told, that means Trump spends almost four times as much time in "executive time" as he does in meetings.
The White House pushed back against Axios with the usual bluster and nonsense, with press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders sniffing that it was this "creative environment" that has allowed Donald Trump to do all those highly "productive" things that nobody outside the White House can possibly decipher, like how he "rebuilt our military" when, apparently, nobody was looking. We mention this solely because Sarah Sanders seems to have decided she'll be riding the Trump anchor all the way to the sea floor, and a record needs to be kept of that.
But 60% of Trump's time is spent in "unstructured" wandering-about time? For what is usually considered one of the busiest, most stressful jobs in the nation? The job that turns presidents gray in the span of one term?
All right then. Well, at least we know he won’t be turning gray.
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