It’s a big planet, with billions of people, so one cannot account for every last lazybones on every last continent. And yet, and yet, is there anyone on this continent as lazy as Donald J. Trump? Jonathan Swan explains in Scoop: Trump’s secret, shrinking schedule:
President Trump is starting his official day much later than he did in the early days of his presidency, often around 11am, and holding far fewer meetings, according to copies of his private schedule shown to Axios. This is largely to meet Trump’s demands for more “Executive Time,” which almost always means TV and Twitter time alone in the residence, officials tell us.
The schedules shown to me are different than the sanitized ones released to the media and public.
The schedule says Trump has “Executive Time” in the Oval Office every day from 8 am to 11 am, but the reality is he spends that time in his residence, watching TV, making phone calls and tweeting. Trump comes down for his first meeting of the day, which is often an intelligence briefing, at 11am….
On Tuesday, Trump has his first meeting of the day with Chief of Staff John Kelly at 11am. He then has “Executive Time” for an hour followed by an hour lunch in the private dining room. Then it’s another 1 hour 15 minutes of “Executive Time” followed by a 45 minute meeting with National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. Then another 15 minutes of “Executive Time” before Trump takes his last meeting of the day — a 3:45pm meeting with the head of Presidential Personnel Johnny DeStefano — before ending his official day at 4:15pm….
On Thursday, the president has an especially light schedule: “Policy Time” at 11 am, then “Executive Time” at 12pm, then lunch for an hour, then more “Executive Time” from 1:30pm….
Watching Fox & Friends, chatting up cronies, tweeting in substandard English, eating junk food: Trump has every advantage in the world, and this is how he spends his time.
I’m OK with Trump kicking back. Think of the trouble he could get into if he actually applied himself.
The real danger in the political craziness that we are seeing now is that someone actually competent, but with the same priorities, gets put in charge.
There’s truth to that… it could, and would, be worse!