Trump the workaholic
https://digbysblog.net/2020/04/trump-the-workaholic/?fbclid=IwAR2xAfzV5luyZHtmMbz050TmhbrzVx8jMeIygz65LJ-hKBHCL0NzwOwHBTQ
Trump the workaholic
Published by digby on April 27, 2020
Trying to do some damage control, the White House puts out this sad story…
White House staffers said the president works around the clock and can make five dozen work-related calls a day during the pandemic.
He said Trump recently called him at 3:19 a.m. He wasn’t expecting the call and was asleep when the phone rang.
“I can tell you that he will go back in and have a lunch just off the Oval Office and more times than not it is interrupted by several phone calls,” Meadows said. “If he gets more than 10 minutes of time in a given day, I haven’t seen in the five weeks I’ve been here.”
A different White House official said Trump some days doesn’t eat lunch.
“There are times when lunch isn’t even a thought,” the official said. “A lot of time there’s either no time for lunch or there is 10 minutes for lunch.”
An account in the New York Times that claimed Trump lingers in his bedroom as late as noon infuriated the president, who tweeted Sunday, “I will often be in the Oval Office late into the night & read & see that I am angrily eating a hamburger & Diet Coke in my bedroom.”
“I work from early in the morning until late at night,” the president tweeted.
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Damnit. If they keep this pathetic stuff up I’m going to end up feeling sorry for Trump.
On second thought … nah. But it is pathetic. We’ve always known that he spends vast amounts of time on the phone kibitzing, mostly to self-soothe and waste time. He mostly calls people who will make him feel better and tell him what to do because he’s clueless.
And it’s clear that Trump is not skipping lunch. If anything he’s obviously a stress eater. I’m not condemning him for it. A lot of us are. In fact, it may be the only thing I have in common with him. But let’s not kid ourselves that he’s missing any meals.
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and eating?
if it's 10 minutes between getting briefed on each call and connecting and the call itself, that's 10 solid hours.
even at 5 minutes a call that's 5 solid hours. for calls that are largely the same and straightforward (phone banking get out the vote calls, e.g.) this is fine, but for the myriad complicated topics and relationships a president should be juggling during a crisis, this is ridiculous.
even if these are calling up people asking for donations (which is illegal to do on government property, but then, this is donnie we're talking about), you'd expect more personalized chit-chat for the type of donor a president would talk to.
or, they're grossly exaggerating.
wha-what?? this crowd?? exaggerate?? naw, never!!
this is what happens when he works nonstop... maybe he ought to stop working 
