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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a26133268/trump-executive-time-schedule-leaked-backstabbing/<snip>
If you were a disgruntled employee of an utterly dysfunctional operation, and you wanted to revenge yourself on the incompetent at the top of the company depth chart, you might arrange for the wide world to know that the incompetent in question is also a very lazy slug who could care less about the obligations of his job.
Welcome to the United States Government, Executive Branch Division. From Axios:
Some days, Executive Time totally predominates. For instance, he had 1 hour of scheduled meetings on Jan. 18 (with acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin) and 7 hours of Executive Time.
The day after the midterms, Trump's schedule had 30 minutes for a chief of staff meeting and more than 7 hours for Executive Time; Former chief of staff John Kelly introduced the concept of Executive Time because the president hated being locked into a regular schedule. "He's always calling people, talking to people," a senior White House official told us. "He's always up to something; it's just not what you would consider typical structure."
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This is going to get Borgia ugly. Food tasters are going to get rich.
rampartc
(5,412 posts)fast food at his age!
trump is poisioning himself.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Your closing line was perfect comedy. I am still chuckling.
blitzen
(4,572 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,636 posts)riversedge
(70,242 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,034 posts)Guess they found the job for Chris Christie.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)2naSalit
(86,647 posts)Maybe that'a why he spends so much time with orangeanus. On Colbert last week, he claimed he and MF45 share a lot af teevee time together. He has to be useful in some way... shithead doesn't have any friends who aren't him.
Blue Owl
(50,425 posts)n/t
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts).....she says that he has "hundreds" of phone calls and meetings every day, doing the business of the people.
HUNDREDS!!
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)Last edited Mon Feb 4, 2019, 08:51 PM - Edit history (1)
In an 8hr day, we're lucky if we get 4hrs outta him. But let's assume we get the whole 8hrs.
100 messages / 8 = 12.5 calls / hr. 60min/hr / 12.5 means he's on the phone 100% of the time to talk to each caller for less than 5min.
And she said, *hundreds*. What, 2min phone calls? Please.
Such BS. The GOP must assume that old statement is correct, i.e., "you can't underestimate the stupidity of the American people". Sadly, that statement is false, and the GOP are shooting themselves in the foot by alienating Americans, as we have long memories.
keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)Cha
(297,317 posts)rurallib
(62,423 posts)Dear leader may be spending his "executive time" getting order from the home office.
"Break the nuclear treaty, Donald." I am guessing that one of the recent ones.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Volaris
(10,272 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)Takes a long time.
If it ever happens.
Lonestarblue
(10,011 posts)Jr. and Eric seem dumb as rocks, and I remember reading somewhere that revenue for Trump Org. is down, so maybe Donald is spending his executive time twisting foreign government arms to get favorable business deals. Enquiring minds want to know!
samnsara
(17,622 posts)Kablooie
(18,634 posts)He can do anything, ANYTHING, and no one blinks an eye.
That's America today.