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kentuck

(111,103 posts)
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 06:24 PM Feb 2019

This Is Going to Get Spectacularly Ugly (Charles P. Pierce)

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a26133268/trump-executive-time-schedule-leaked-backstabbing/

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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.
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This Is Going to Get Spectacularly Ugly (Charles P. Pierce) (Original Post) kentuck Feb 2019 OP
food tasters will be dying of diabetes complications. rampartc Feb 2019 #1
This is going to get Borgia ugly. Food tasters are going to get rich. saidsimplesimon Feb 2019 #2
"He's always up to something." Now THAT, I do believe is true n/t blitzen Feb 2019 #3
We wouldn't call it "governing," would we? I sure wouldn't. CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2019 #5
Up to no good! riversedge Feb 2019 #7
Food taster Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2019 #4
oh naughty!! riversedge Feb 2019 #8
LOL! 2naSalit Feb 2019 #16
Re-defining "Fugly" Blue Owl Feb 2019 #6
Madeleine, his new gatekeeper, tweeted angrily about this.. Grasswire2 Feb 2019 #9
Well, doing business anyway world wide wally Feb 2019 #10
Sure. I call BS. TwistOneUp Feb 2019 #11
Calling back and forth with fellow coward Hannity. keithbvadu2 Feb 2019 #15
Doing the business of Doing in The People. Cha Feb 2019 #21
Considering 11AM in DC is @ 6PM in Moscow rurallib Feb 2019 #12
Who leaves their toddler unsupervised for seven hours in a day? MrScorpio Feb 2019 #13
The republican senate daycare, apparently.. Volaris Feb 2019 #17
Damn, trying to jerk off when you can't get it up must be so frustrating dhol82 Feb 2019 #14
Perhaps he's spending time making business deals. Lonestarblue Feb 2019 #18
laziest effing fake prez in the HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE! samnsara Feb 2019 #19
I disagree. it's not going to get ugly at all. It's all perfectly fine because he is Trump. Kablooie Feb 2019 #20

rampartc

(5,412 posts)
1. food tasters will be dying of diabetes complications.
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 06:28 PM
Feb 2019

fast food at his age!

trump is poisioning himself.

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
2. This is going to get Borgia ugly. Food tasters are going to get rich.
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 06:30 PM
Feb 2019

Your closing line was perfect comedy. I am still chuckling.

2naSalit

(86,647 posts)
16. LOL!
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 08:36 PM
Feb 2019

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.

Grasswire2

(13,571 posts)
9. Madeleine, his new gatekeeper, tweeted angrily about this..
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 06:41 PM
Feb 2019

.....she says that he has "hundreds" of phone calls and meetings every day, doing the business of the people.

HUNDREDS!!

TwistOneUp

(1,020 posts)
11. Sure. I call BS.
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 07:27 PM
Feb 2019

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.

rurallib

(62,423 posts)
12. Considering 11AM in DC is @ 6PM in Moscow
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 07:30 PM
Feb 2019

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.

dhol82

(9,353 posts)
14. Damn, trying to jerk off when you can't get it up must be so frustrating
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 07:39 PM
Feb 2019

Takes a long time.
If it ever happens.

Lonestarblue

(10,011 posts)
18. Perhaps he's spending time making business deals.
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 09:05 PM
Feb 2019

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!

Kablooie

(18,634 posts)
20. I disagree. it's not going to get ugly at all. It's all perfectly fine because he is Trump.
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 09:25 PM
Feb 2019

He can do anything, ANYTHING, and no one blinks an eye.
That's America today.

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