Trump is scaling back his White House work schedule in 2018: report President Donald Trump is starting work later and ending the day earlier in 2018, according to internal White House documents obtained by Jonathan Swan of Axios.com. Trump is postponing the beginning of his work day until 11 a.m., taking fewer meetings and and demanding more “executive time” in which he is unscheduled for official duties. Even close White House officials admit, Swan said, that this means the president will be watching TV and using Twitter “alone in the residence.” “The schedule says Trump has ‘Executive Time’ in the Oval Office every day from 8am to 11am,” wrote Swan, “but the reality is he spends that time in his residence, watching TV, making phone calls and tweeting. Trump comes down for his first meeting of the day, which is often an intelligence briefing, at 11am.” By contrast, President Barack Obama typically took in an early morning workout, then arrived in the Oval Office between 8:30 and 9 a.m. and worked well into the evening hours. President George W. Bush arrived in the Oval Office even earlier, at 6:45 each morning. Trump typically ends his day around 6 p.m. and retreats to the residence, where he and First Lady Melania Trump maintain separate quarters and can go days without seeing each other. After 6, Trump eats dinner and makes phone calls, watching TV and occasionally firing off tweets in response to things he sees on one of his three TV screens. This Tuesday, Swan reported, Trump has his first item of the day at 11 a.m., a meeting with White House chief of staff John Kelly. Then he takes an hour lunch and a subsequent hour and 15 minutes of “Executive Time,” then a 45-minute meeting with national security adviser H. R. McMaster, followed by more Executive Time and a short meeting with the work day ending in the afternoon at 4:15. On Wednesday, the president has one meeting, one briefing, a video chat with Hope Hicks and the day ends at 4. Thursday is virtually unscheduled with an 11 a.m. “Policy Time” briefing and Executive Time for the rest of the very short day. Trump has spent nearly a third of his time since Inauguration Day playing golf. A vast number of federal positions are still left unfilled nearly a year into Trump’s presidency. Aides insist that the president is always busy, but Swan noted that the bulk of that time appears to be “unstructured and undisciplined.” “He’s calling people, watching TV, tweeting, and generally taking the same loose, improvisational approach to being president that he took to running the Trump Organization for so many years,” wrote Swan. “Old habits die hard.”
A day in the life of Spike Trader- Wake up in pee soaked bed Go on ET and post drivel Go to high school Get picked on by the cool kids Home from high school (sobbing) Nap time Go on ET and post drivel Play with himself Change Diaper Go to bed
Shame . . . Trump would have been far better off if he had O'Reilly with him in the Oval office . O'Reilly was at least loyal. I wonder what that mofo is doing !!!
My understanding is that a lot a work, such as deals, gets done of the golf course. I thought the word was he was getting a lot done, such as with judicial appointments. Additionally, haven’t the Democrats been blocking many of his other appointments? Shouldn’t disabling ACA and tax law changes be credited to Trump as work?
His role model uncle , former GOP House majority leader David Lang was a meth kingpin . . Former Montana GOP House majority leader facing 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to running meth ring The former leader of the Republican-dominated House is facing up to 30 years in prison for running a meth ring over a seven-month period in 2016, reports the Billings Gazette. According to the report, prosecutors have recommended former lawmaker Michael David Lang serve 28 years after acting as “the central player” in a meth ring that distributed 20, and possibly up to 50 pounds of the drug, into the Billings area. The 57-year-old Lang pled guilty in September to conspiracy to possess and distribute methamphetamine and possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. “Lang was responsible for polluting the Billings community and surrounding areas with a significant quantity of highly pure methamphetamine,” Assistant U.S. Attorney John Sullivan detailed in the government’s sentencing recommendation, adding, “The negative impact associated with at least 20 pounds of methamphetamine is difficult to overstate.” The Gazette reports that Lang , while in office, supported giving $4 million in taxpayer dollars to an anti-meth public relations campaign. He was later removed from his leadership spot after being captured on video in an obscene tirade against then-Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D). Following his political career, Lang was charged with driving under the influence in 2014, before picking up second DUI months later in conjunction with a felony charge of possessing over an ounce of meth in California and being sentenced to 16 months in prison, court records reveal. According to prosecutor Sullivan, Lang began dealing large quantities of the drug after his release, brought in from to California. A raid on his house in October 2016 turned up more than 2.5 pounds of meth, 13 ounces of cocaine and $27,400. Lang is scheduled for sentencing on Jan. 18 before U.S. District Judge Susan Watters, where he faces mandatory minimum of 10 years to life in prison and a $10 million fine.
I wonder how deep the rabbit hole on this goes? Who were his connections? I thought politics was the most profitable line of work for criminals. Less risk, too if you “manage” this other side properly.