9 hours of 'Executive Time': Trump's unstructured days define his presidency

[Demovictory9]

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/29/trump-daily-schedule-executive-time-944996

WHITE HOUSE

9 hours of ‘Executive Time’: Trump’s unstructured days define his presidency
The president’s schedule shows huge swaths of his day unplanned, allowing his whims and momentary interests to drive White House business.

President Donald Trump had about three times as much free time planned for last Tuesday as work time, according to his private schedule. The president was slated for more than nine hours of “Executive Time,” a euphemism for the unstructured time Trump spends tweeting, phoning friends and watching television. Official meetings, policy briefings and public appearances — typically the daily work of being president — consumed barely more than three hours of his day.

The president was slated to spend 30 minutes on the phone with CEOs and make brief remarks at a state leadership conference. He was briefed by senior military leaders in the evening and joined them for dinner. Aside from an 11:30 a.m. meeting with White House chief of staff John Kelly — his first commitment of the day — the rest of his day was unstructured, some in blocks as long as 2 hours and 45 minutes.


A review of one week of the president’s private detailed schedules, from Monday Oct. 22 through Friday Oct. 26, showed the president had more free time on Tuesday than on any other day that week, but his Tuesday agenda was hardly atypical. And while the notion of Executive Time, and the president’s increasingly late start to the day, has come under scrutiny over the past year, this new batch of schedules obtained by POLITICO offers fresh insight into the extent to which that unscheduled time dominates Trump’s week and is shaping his presidency, allowing his whims and momentary interests to drive White House business.

[NoMoreRepugs]

1. Grifters gotta grift, Cons gotta con,most importantly -

Nimcompoops gotta fadoodle their time away.

[empedocles]

2. Unstructured schedule might be tv watching, phone chats, tweets, and eating

In THAT order

[NoMoreRepugs]

6. AKA...Presidential Fadoodling.

[anarch]

3. if it were anyone else, I'd probably be all "get to work you lazy fucker!;" in this guy's case...

I'd say the more of his "presidency" he sleeps/golfs/vegges out to the TV through, the better for whatever's left of the country. FFS, do NOT let this fucker actually try to govern us.

On the other hand, some of fuckface's ideas may actually be better than whatever that Nazi Stephen Miller comes up with...he actually seems to have a decent grasp on various ways to twist the words of the constitution in the service of cruelty and white supremacy. Someone needs to hint to fuckface that the weaselly little fascist asshole Miller thinks he's better than him or something, such that he rejects any of Miller's Nazi initiatives out of hand. Unfortunately such initiatives likely appeal to fuckface's keen sense of cruelty. All of these bastards just need to go.

[DFW]

4. Must be nice

I work maybe 80 hours a week, if I'm lucky, and just went a 20 day stretch without a day off.

No wonder I'm not a Republican president. I'm overqualified.

[octoberlib]

5. This is all bullshit.

Link to tweet

Attention major news organizations: At this point, it should be clear that Axios and Trump are both playing you. The story is more: Trump floats illegal, unconstitutional immigration proposal; News organization vying for ratings feeds Trump an idea and he bites