Unlike his predecessor, President Donald Trump chafes at being scheduled, sitting through hours of policy meetings and being kept from his phone and television for long chunks of time.
These unusual preferences have created a presidential schedule unlike any other, with Trump’s days officially starting in the late morning or afternoon, and usually only punctuated with a couple of events, largely political in nature.
According to a Monday Politico report, every President has different preferences. Barack Obama stayed up late; George W. Bush woke up early. Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter made calls in the middle of the night when issues or ideas arose.
Trump varies from his peers in that he tends to avoid the brunt of policy-making altogether. According to schedules obtained by Politico, Trump spent only two hours on policy last week. He received the Presidential Daily briefing just twice in five days. In contrast, Obama averaged about six to seven hours of policy meetings per day, according to his deputy policy chief of staff Nancy-Ann DeParle.
Of course this is because Donald is an evi…a stable genius and doesn’t need hours and hours to learn policy, right?
I guess that remorselessly undoing your predecessor’s policy and adopting policy documents wholesale from shadowy cabals of right-wing business interests doesn’t need a lot of thinking about.
Trump prefers to get his news from Fox News as opposed to the US intelligence community.
Shouldn’t that headline read “Everything About Trump Puts Him Totally Out Of Step With His Predecessors”?
Mr Trump is totally incompetent and should not be in that office. He should be first, ringed with Democratic legislators so he can’t act, and then removed from office through legal and proper means. And the rest of us need to get off of our lazy butts and vote for sane and educated candidates.