There is so much space in the residence to do work. You’ve got just as much media access there. You have just as much secure access to anything that you need to have access to. It’s no different than being in the Oval Office. Except that it’s private. It’s much more private than the Oval Office is. But all that being said, this is a classic bit of reporting that is primarily an exhibit of how people don’t know how Donald Trump works and how they are comparing him to every previous president and finding him coming up short or lagging behind or wanting.
Donald Trump is the kind of guy who never has structured a lot of things day to day. Donald Trump purposely leaves a schedule open because he doesn’t know what’s gonna happen day to day. He wants to leave time to deal with pop-ups. He wants to leave time to deal with things that just pop up out of nowhere that he wants to do or people need to see him about. He ran the Trump Organization that way. He wrote about it in The Art of the Deal.
The idea that he’s wasting time or avoiding the job while he’s in the residence is the attempt that’s being made here, and this term “Executive Time,” that is… They say 60% of Trump’s schedule is Executive Time. What that means from their reporting is (impression), “There’s 60% of the time we don’t know what Trump’s doing! He may just be taking naps! He may be… We don’t know what he’s doing! He may not be…” They want you to think he’s not working 60% of the time. That’s what they want you to believe.
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