{"id":1003582,"date":"2019-02-04T11:03:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T15:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1003582"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:10:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:10:03","slug":"does-trump-ever-work-apparently-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/does-trump-ever-work-apparently-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Trump Ever Work? Apparently Not."},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump\u2019s private schedules over the past three months revealed how little the president actually works. In fact, Trump spent around 60% percent of his time in \u201cexecutive time,\u201d watching TV and tweeting. Wouldn\u2019t that be nice? Good thing there isn\u2019t anything major the president needs to be dealing with…<\/p>\n

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Trump usually spends the first five hours of each day and around 60% of his time overall in \u201cexecutive time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Axios<\/a>: \u201cThe schedules, which cover nearly every working day since the midterms, show that Trump has spent around 60% of his scheduled time over the past 3 months in unstructured \u2018Executive Time.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Axios<\/a>: \u201cTrump, an early riser, usually spends the first 5 hours of the day in Executive Time. Each day’s schedule places Trump in \u2018Location: Oval Office\u2019 from 8 to 11 a.m. But Trump, who often wakes before 6 a.m., is never in the Oval during those hours, according to six sources with direct knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump also spent 77 hours in meetings over the past three months, which is less time than most Americans work in two weeks.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, as Trump claims there is a supposed \u201cnational emergency,\u201d he spent the weekend at his ritzy Florida golf course.<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s private schedules over the past three months revealed how little the president actually works. In fact, Trump spent around 60% percent of his time in \u201cexecutive time,\u201d watching TV and tweeting. Wouldn\u2019t that be nice? Good thing there isn\u2019t anything major the president needs to be dealing with…   Trump usually spends the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDoes Trump Ever Work? 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