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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Mon Feb 4, 2019, 09:52 AM Feb 2019

Newt Gingrich Defends Trump Spending Hours a Day Doing Nothing: Churchill Took Naps in His Pajamas

Newt Gingrich Defends Trump Spending Hours a Day Doing Nothing: Churchill Took Naps in His Pajamas

by Aidan McLaughlin | Feb 4th, 2019, 8:00 am

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An apparently disgruntled White House staffer leaked President Donald Trump‘s entire schedule for the past three months to Axios. It found that Trump has spent a whopping 60% of his schedule in “Executive Time.” Trump is an early riser, and takes the first five hours of the day in Executive Time: “in the residence, watching TV, reading the papers, and responding to what he sees and reads by phoning aides, members of Congress, friends, administration officials and informal advisers,” per Axios.

To Newt Gingrich, this report and the response to it is yet another example of the “elites” being “ignorant.”

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Winston Churchill was known to take an afternoon power nap of at least an hour, which he claimed allowed him to work productively into the night. It’s materially different to Trump spending five hours every morning watching television and tweeting, but we understand Gingrich’s point.

UPDATE: Newt is still tweeting:

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https://www.mediaite.com/online/newt-gingrich-defends-trump-spending-hours-a-day-doing-nothing-churchill-took-naps-in-his-pajamas/

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Newt Gingrich Defends Trump Spending Hours a Day Doing Nothing: Churchill Took Naps in His Pajamas (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2019 OP

Churchill was fighting the Nazis, not CNN. htuttle Feb 2019 #1

Churchill was living in the heart of London in a bunker in very tight quarters during WW II Botany Feb 2019 #2

Churchill was a brilliant man....trump ain't spanone Feb 2019 #3

He was a drunk zipplewrath Feb 2019 #5

His drinking was not the reason he lost in 1945 book_worm Feb 2019 #9

Yeah, I over stated that zipplewrath Feb 2019 #10

"Reagan spent every August at the ranch." BumRushDaShow Feb 2019 #4

... 2naSalit Feb 2019 #6

I didn't know Churchill was a kacekwl Feb 2019 #7

Churchill also read voluminously, thucythucy Feb 2019 #8

You gotta be kidding me, serial adulterer Newt, area51 Feb 2019 #11

Churchill had better words - Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 dalton99a Feb 2019 #12

htuttle

(23,738 posts)

1. Churchill was fighting the Nazis, not CNN.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 09:54 AM

Feb 2019

Botany

(70,516 posts)

2. Churchill was living in the heart of London in a bunker in very tight quarters during WW II

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 09:57 AM

Feb 2019

I have visited the Churchill's bunker and it is very small. Trump lives in the White House and spends
his weekends @ mere large Oh.

Newt Gingrich "great historian."

spanone

(135,844 posts)

3. Churchill was a brilliant man....trump ain't

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 09:59 AM

Feb 2019

neither is newt

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)

5. He was a drunk

Reply to spanone (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 10:07 AM

Feb 2019

Churchhill was a drunk and as soon as the war was over, the UK threw him out of office because they all knew it. I for one wouldn't chose him as any model for a civic leader. Reagan was becoming senile virtually throughout his entire time in office. A condition apparently accelerated by getting shot. Newt is a guy that has a rather distorted view of history and shouldn't be relied upon for historical insights.

book_worm

(15,951 posts)

9. His drinking was not the reason he lost in 1945

Reply to zipplewrath (Reply #5)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 03:46 PM

Feb 2019

The British people felt that Labour policies were better suited for the post-war than conservative policies.

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)

10. Yeah, I over stated that

Reply to book_worm (Reply #9)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 03:47 PM

Feb 2019

They all knew he was a drunk, but it was his politics that got him thrown out.

BumRushDaShow

(129,087 posts)

4. "Reagan spent every August at the ranch."

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 10:04 AM

Feb 2019

Washingtonians were appalled. Reagan came back refreshed and refocused.

Yet the black President does it and -

Obama's vacation stirs criticism

By AMIE PARNES

08/17/2011 09:20 AM EDT Updated 08/17/2011 01:37 PM EDT

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Last week, a few hours after the White House announced the president would head to Martha’s Vineyard Thursday for a 10-day vacation, the Republican National Committee sent out a press release querying, “And this is the same White House that says they are focused on the economy?”

Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich told Fox News host Sean Hannity that Obama “ought to cancel his vacation — period.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2011/08/obamas-vacation-stirs-criticism-061553

2naSalit

(86,646 posts)

6. ...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 10:40 AM

Feb 2019

FTFF!

kacekwl

(7,017 posts)

7. I didn't know Churchill was a

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 11:52 AM

Feb 2019

US President.

thucythucy

(8,069 posts)

8. Churchill also read voluminously,

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 02:21 PM

Feb 2019

including pretty much every briefing book and memo that came across his desk. He wrote tens of thousands of pages of memos to staff in his government. He traveled to war zones multiple times (Egypt, France) prepared assiduously for meetings with foreign leaders, cultivated alliances, took advice from experts (especially when it came to science), etc. etc,

Yes, he drank--a lot. He was also a racist and an imperialist.

I'd say the racism is about the only thing Churchill and Trump have in common.

Also, Churchill had way better taste in art.