Current Events: Working Hard, or Hardly Working?

Donald Trump's favorite way to start the day - watching
televised new stories about Donald Trump
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I doubt that anyone was surprised to find out from the leaked information about Donald Trump's private schedule that he spends very little time actually engaged in presidential activities.  Only 15% of his day is spent in meetings, mostly made up of his daily presidential briefings (with an emphasis on "brief"), but a whopping 60% of his time is spent on activities such as watching television, reading newspapers, and tweeting or making phone calls in response to what he sees and reads:

Donald Trump, large and in charge - of the TV remote
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The President's day starts very early, but he spends the first five hours in his private residence rather than in the Oval Office engaged in these unstructured activities, euphemistically dubbed "executive time" by his administration (but known in the real world as "recess", of course!).  It is no secret that the man who once claimed that he does not watch much television in reality watches about 4 to 8 hours a day.  And why does he watch so much TV?  Here is his own explanation:

No caption needed here! (image from Grabien)

Because who knew that governing the nation would be so much work, and why would you meet with federal government bureau and department experts in person for in depth discussions of important issues when you can just turn on the boob tube and let it tell you what to do?