White House data leak reveals Trump's timeline: 60% is 'free time'

A White House source has provided US citizens and anyone interested with information about what President Trump's every day is like - or at least has been for the past three months.

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Why this is important: this unusually large data leak gives an unprecedented insight into how the US president spends his days, writes Axious. The charts, which cover nearly every workday since the midterm elections, show that Trump has spent about 60% of his scheduled time over the past 3 months on an unstructured “free schedule.”

The publication published all pages of charts - You can find them here.. And here the detailed information is presented. in the format of Google-tables. To protect the source, the graphics were reprinted in the same format in which they are received by West Wing personnel.

Photo: screenshot www.axios.com

What the graphics show: Trump gets up early and usually spends the first 5 hours of the day in Executive Time (the same “free schedule”). The daily schedule directs the President to "Location: Oval Office" from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.

But Trump, who often wakes up before 6 in the morning, never actually happens in the Oval Office during these hours, according to six sources working directly in the White House.

Instead, he spends his morning at the residence, watching television, reading newspapers and responding to what he sees and reads, calling assistants, members of Congress, friends, administration officials and unofficial advisers.

Trump's first meeting - usually around 11 or 11:30 a.m. - is often an intelligence briefing or a 30-minute chat with the White House chief of staff.

Since November 7, the day after the mid-term elections, Trump has until now spent around 297 hours in Executive Time, according to the 51 private schedule, which the edition received. In the same charts, Trump had about 77 hours for meetings, which included policy planning, legislative strategy, and videotapes.

Photo: screenshot www.axios.com

On some days, Executive Time is completely dominant. For example, he had only 1 hour of scheduled meetings on January 18 (with acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin) and 7 hours of “free” time.

The day after the midterms in Trump’s schedule, there were 30 minutes to meet with the head of staff and more than 7 Executive Time hours.

Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly introduced the concept of Executive Time specifically for Trump, because the president hated being tied to tasks on a regular basis.

“He's always calling people, talking to people,” a senior White House official told us. “He’s always thinking about something; but it’s not what you’d call a typical day structure.”

Private schedules do not list all Trump meetings for the past three months. The fact is that many of his meetings are spontaneous, according to senior White House officials who know his daily habits.

This is also because the more detailed schedule - in a very small circle - usually includes 1 or 2 additional meetings per day that are not included in the personal schedules sent to employees.

The president sometimes has meetings during the Executive Time, about which he does not want to spread among the staff of the West Wing, for fear of information leaks. And his morning sometimes includes calls to heads of state, political meetings and meetings with lawyers at the residence, which are not reflected in these schedules.

For example, a private timeline noted that Trump had a "media interaction" at 16:30 p.m. last Wednesday. A more detailed schedule revealed that it was an interview with the Daily Caller. Wednesday's schedule also included Trump's meeting with former presidential candidate and former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain, whom he is considering to run the Federal Reserve (the private schedule hid the meeting under the code words Executive Time).

Responding to the Axios report, Sarah Sanders, press secretary for the White House, wrote in an e-mail:

“President Trump has a different leadership style than his predecessors, and the results speak for themselves. Although he spends most of his days in scheduled meetings, events and calls, he has time to create the more creative environment that has helped make him the most productive president in modern history."

“President Trump has inspired a prosperous economy with lower taxes and high wages, made the US the world's number one oil and gas producer, overhauled the judicial and military systems and renegotiated better trade deals. It is undeniable that our country has never been stronger than it is today under the leadership of President Trump,” Sanders added.

And what about Trump himself? He also commented on data leakage.

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he may be the most hardworking president in the history of the country, writes Voice of America.

Details of his daily work schedule, which were recently leaked to the media, show that over the past three months he has spent about 60 percent of his workday on "flexible" work, where he has no official appointments or meetings.

Often, these watches coincided with a flurry of comments on Twitter on current issues, complaints about Democrats or retweets of commendable statements about him from the programs of his favorite television station Fox News.

“My work schedule got into the media. It was very easy to do, but it had to be assessed in a positive, not negative, way,” Trump wrote.

“When it comes to “free schedule,” I usually work rather than relax. In fact, I probably devote more time to work than almost any other previous president,” he added.

“The reality is that when I took office as president, our country was in chaos,” Trump said. – Exhausted military, endless wars, potential war with North Korea, the Department of Veterans Affairs, high taxes and too much regulation, immigration and healthcare problems and much more. I had no choice but to work very long hours!”

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