Trump Didn’t Know His Daily Schedules Were Public Until His Last Month As POTUS

MIAMI, FLORIDA - NOVEMBER 06: Former U.S. President Donald Trump gesture during a rally for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) at the Miami-Dade Country Fair and Exposition on November 6, 2022 in Miami, Florida. Rubio faces U.S... MIAMI, FLORIDA - NOVEMBER 06: Former U.S. President Donald Trump gesture during a rally for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) at the Miami-Dade Country Fair and Exposition on November 6, 2022 in Miami, Florida. Rubio faces U.S. Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) in his reelection bid in Tuesday's general election. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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The select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack dropped 17 more transcripts of witness testimony Tuesday afternoon and there was a hidden gem tucked into one of the 168 pages of depositions.

During his lengthy testimony before the committee, Judd Deere, the White House deputy press secretary for the Trump administration, revealed former President Donald Trump did not know his schedule was public until a few weeks before the end of his presidency.

“Every evening we prepared and released a daily guidance for the following day of the President’s public schedule. Beginning sometime around mid to late December, the President discovered that, for the first time, my understanding, that we released a public schedule of his to the public,” Deere told the committee. 

Once Trump learned his schedule was released to the public, he wanted to change the way his staff wrote it, Deere testified. 

The White House daily schedule notably changed towards the end of Trump’s presidency and the details of his daily activities became vague and were often replaced with “boilerplate” language.

Deere said Trump directed the White House press office to begin releasing a statement claiming he would “work from early in the morning until late in the evening” and would “make many calls and have many meetings” over the course of the day.

“And so what became the new version of the public schedule was basically a couple of sentences about what his day would consist of rather than specific times and titles of events in an outline form,” Deere added.

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  1. fiVe huNred aNd fiRst

    ahem

    https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/foia/2017-04-14/trump-hides-white-house-visitor-logs

  2. Further proof that Trumpy is a total idiot. Probably couldn’t pour piss out of a boot with the directions on the heel.

  3. Hadn’t we heard that very phrasing before about his schedule? I’m sure now it’s something more like “he watches TV from early in the morning until late in the afternoon before crashing an event hosted at his hotel and talking about himself ad nauseam.”

  4. Yes, he’s an idiot, that’s public knowledge, but it says a lot about the current Republican Party that he’s their crown jewel.

  5. Man who wants you to be paying attention to him every minute of the day wants you to know absolutely nothing about him, except for how smart, powerful and rich he claims to be.

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