There weren't enough hours in the day for Trump to have done his job at any point in 2020

[Miles Archer]

WE KNOW he took more 3-day golf weekends than not. It WAS ALMOST every single week. So that means a 4-day work week.

WE KNOW all about "executive time"...code, in part, for "Sat in my room eating McDonalds. watching Fox & Friends, waiting for them to mention me." THIS MEANT that on the days he showed up for work at all, he arrived in the Oval Office at noon. Also, his staff got "creative" about publishing his daily schedule, when they did at all, and the period in which Stephanie Grisham was his "Press Secretary," she held NO PRESS CONFERENCES AT ALL. So we "knew" what we were "told," which was basically GOLF and "Executive Time."

WE KNOW that he tweeted his ASS off until they shut him down, and maybe 1/3 of that was "presidentin'" and the rest was trolling and "book reviews" (books which, naturally, praised Trump).

So if you look at things like THIS:

Bombshell revelation of Trump election texts is 'more damning' than his Georgia phone call: legal analyst

...and then put it together will all of the other "behind the scenes" efforts to overthrow our democracy, AND "TV time," AND "tweet time," AND GOLF, AND campaigning / "rallies," how much ACTUAL TIME do we think he spent in 2020 fulfilling his duties as president?

[niyad]

1. Maybe two hours a week? And look at the damage done even in that short

amount of time.

[Shermann]

2. POTUS is one of those jobs

...where the people you work for are mostly incompetent at determining if you are doing the job effectively. The right-wing fanboy media with their softball questions certainly doesn't help with that.

One of the perks I guess.

[pandr32]

3. He was never a real POTUS who worked for our nation--ever.

He worked for his own interests 100%. He took full advantage of his power as POTUS to further his own goals--not ours.

[erronis]

4. Your question: How much actual time spent doing presidential duties? Zero, 0, zilch

How much time did he spend undermining this country? Probably every minute that he wasn't preening, eating, shitting, tweeting (oh, wait that's the same as shitting), and getting reprogrammed.

I think some of the "executive time" was updating his circuits with the latest Kremlin transmissions.

By the way, it's really good to see you broadcasting again. I'm not an old-timer like many here but I had learned to look out for your posts.

[Miles Archer]

5. Thank you kindly.

[keep_left]

6. The "executive time" aka "TV watching" was so interminable that Media Matters...

...could actually track what Trump was watching based on his constant tweeting. MM discovered that there was a 10-20 minute lag between what was said on, say, Fox and Friends, and Trump's reaction in a tweet. MM figured this out by rewinding the TiVo when they started to notice so many similarities between Fox programming and Trump's tweets and speeches.

[Miles Archer]

8. Yep. Average time he showed up daily, noon.

And I do remember coverage like what you've described...and tweets where someone on Fox would drop a real groaner and someone would speculate how long it would take him to chime in.

[keep_left]

9. Yep, and it actually happened.

I remember Media Matters would actually give the timestamps showing how blatant it was: here's where Fox said it, now here's where Trump tweeted back. He wouldn't bother to fact-check anything; it was all about "feels", as the kids say. (Or "truthiness", as Colbert says).

[Blue Owl]

7. Fatfuck von Golfcart was a useless layabout freeloading off the taxpayer's dime