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In reply to the discussion: Lazy Old Man - How Trump spent his first month in office, by the numbers [View all]tblue37
(64,979 posts)24. They should not have mislabeled it thus. I believe they mean time
Last edited Sat Feb 25, 2017, 10:30 AM - Edit history (1)
during what most would consider normal work hours, but what he is doing is often not real work, but merely ceremonial:
Much of Trump's work time fell into a few basic categories. The estimates below are based on pool reports. Most events were assumed to be an hour, unless the schedule made obvious that the length was shorter or longer. (Numbers below and on the chart above are rounded.)
Intelligence briefings: 6 hours
News conferences: 4 hours
Signing bills and executive orders: 6 hours
Phone calls and meetings with foreign leaders: 21 hours
Listening sessions with various groups: 14 hours
Trump spent 182 hours between call time and the lid with other events that were listed on his public calendar, though not every hour was accounted for during that time. Not captured in those categories are a few special events: the inauguration, the National Prayer Breakfast and the two hours his family spent watching Finding Dory in the White House theater. (His press secretary says that Trump didnt join in.)
By labeling it "other work hours," they wrongly imply he was actually working.
EDITED to include explanation from the article about how that "other work time was actually spent. (Hint--mostly doing stuff we would not call actual work.)
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Lazy Old Man - How Trump spent his first month in office, by the numbers [View all]
kpete
Feb 2017
OP
"There's just so much to be done. So I don't think we'll be very big on vacations, no."
dalton99a
Feb 2017
#5
does this surprise any of us? I am just wondering what "other work time hours" actually means.
niyad
Feb 2017
#8
watching tv so he knows what's going on in the world? Since he doesn't read the intel reports
KittyWampus
Feb 2017
#12
Wait, so they expect us to believe he actually WORKED 248 hours in his first month?
mr_lebowski
Feb 2017
#17