Cliff Sims, Trump’s ex-director of message strategy, argues that it would not be practical to put them on schedule. For presidents, every moment is valuable to squander this precious time tells you why this White House is so ineffective.”īut White House staff past and present deny that there is anything untoward or sinister about the unannounced conversations. He added: “It’s probably the most dramatic example of this being a president for whom focus and discipline and process are anathema. If the calls had any governmental purpose, it would be on the schedule.”ĭonald Trump spends a majority of working hours unstructured, according to the Axios report. He’s just clowning around, talking to his pals, tweeting and watching TV. Chris Whipple, the author of The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency, said: “It tells you these calls have nothing to do with governing.
Yet the interactions do not appear on the daily schedules.
He also phones journalists at the New York Times and elsewhere to complain about their coverage. The calls and meetings are understood to include the Fox hosts Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs, longtime friends such as his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, the New York businessman Richard LeFrak, the conservative media entrepreneur Chris Ruddy and the former bodyguard Keith Schiller, and members of Congress including senator Lindsey Graham and the US representative Mark Meadows. And his mornings sometimes include calls with heads of state, political meetings and meetings with counsel in the residence, which aren’t captured on these schedules.” This usually includes the first five hours of the day, from waking up around 6am to his first meeting around 11am.Īxios reported: “The president sometimes has meetings during executive time that he doesn’t want most West Wing staff to know about for fear of leaks. The documents showed that the president spends around 60% of his scheduled day in “executive time”, a term coined by his former chief of staff John Kelly. The debate erupted last weekend when an unnamed source leaked almost every day of Trump’s private schedule from the past three months to the website Axios. But they did not explain why these interactions are left off the schedule and in effect kept secret even from White House staff.
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Trump’s allies swiftly countered that “executive time” is in fact full of productive phone calls and meetings.
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