How Donald Trump spent his morning (HINT: He watched TV)--Executive Time...........

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Link to tweet

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/29/politics/donald-trump-tv-analysis/index.html?utm_content=2018-08-30T08%3A34%3A04&utm_term=image&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNNp



How Donald Trump spent his morning (HINT: He watched TV)


Updated 8:32 PM ET, Wed August 29, 2018

(CNN)The first event on President Donald Trump's public schedule on Wednesday was at 11:30 a.m. -- an intelligence briefing.
How did Trump spend the time between when he woke up -- usually around 5:30 a.m. -- and that first meeting of the day, six hours later? We can't know for certain. But we can make a pretty educated guess: He was watching cable TV -- and tweeting.


Let me make the case. Between 8 a.m. and 11:12 a.m., Trump sent 10 tweets. Of those 10, two were direct quotes from Fox News Channel's "Tucker Carlson Tonight" from Tuesday. The third -- ''Anonymous Sources are really starting to BURN the media" -- appeared to come from Fox, too. (Trump's tweet referenced the @Foxnews Twitter handle.)
The other tweets were about Trump's normal hobbyhorses -- alleged corruption within the Justice Department, the media being bad, candidates he endorsed winning -- that are also regular cable TV talking points.

Then there's this -- about Trump's well-known penchant for "Executive Time" -- from Axios' Jonathan Swan back in January:

"President Trump is starting his official day much later than he did in the early days of his presidency, often around 11 a.m., and holding far fewer meetings, according to copies of his private schedule shown to Axios. This is largely to meet Trump's demands for more 'Executive Time,' which almost always means TV and Twitter time alone in the residence, officials tell us.".............

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[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. This whole mess is costing us billions of dollars.

I never want to hear an austerity argument from a repub again...ever.

[GusBob]

2. We have a TV president

For us kill-your-TV types (15+ years TV free here) it is sort of a vindication. In fact one of the reasons I stopped watching was because of so-called reality TV shows. One of which gave us our TV president.


Fortunately, it seems as if our nation is trending away from network TV. So the president and his remote clutching followers are behind the times

[underpants]

3. Only a few steps from Howard Hughes territory

I've been saying that for a while. He's really really close.

[Hekate]

10. Spot on

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. "burn"? Arson is a crime and conspiracy to arson is a crime. . . . nt

[Mr. Ected]

5. His base doesn't care that they hired a part-time President

The rest of us should care a lot. A lot.

[Blue Owl]

6. Loser

n/t

[HipChick]

7. Lazy...incompetent...

[Solly Mack]

8. Pathetic

[Totally Tunsie]

9. Just repeating my post from Tuesday, when he also made his first appearance at 11:30:

Totally Tunsie (1,156 posts)

42. Nice schedule...


"Executive Time", then roll into the office at 11:30, break for lunch at 12:30. Tough morning. Then sit on ass and pose for pictures from 1:45 to 3:00. Dinner at 6:45.

The most strenuous thing he did all day was raise his fork. He must be exhausted.