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President Donald Trump spent about 60% of his work time in mid-term elections last year, sequestrated at the "White House", according to copies of his personal schedule obtained by Axios.
Trump's private schedule for almost every working day of the last three months, which he obtained from an unnamed source of the White House. The documents reveal that the president spent about 300 hours in the executive's time, an unstructured period, Axios said. It was time to watch television, phone counselors and friends, and read the news.
The White House would have returned to at least some of the early chaos of the Trump administration since the departure of the then chief of staff, John Kelly. The Washington Post noted this weekend that Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney only met with the President twice a day, morning and evening, and that he was not serving as the oval office warden, unlike his predecessor. And a book published last month by Cliff Sims, a former staff member, described the White House as "uncontrollable".
Axios noted that the use of "executive time" in the Trump program did not mean that the president was not working during those times. He has a more detailed schedule that includes a few extra meetings a day and many of his discussions with staff are impulsive.
"The president sometimes has meetings not to do while staff members in the west wing were aware of fear of leaks," wrote Alexi McCammond and Jonathan Swan. "And his mornings sometimes include calls with heads of state, political meetings and meetings with the residence's attorneys, who do not appear in those schedules."
The leak has already provoked outrage in the White House. President's personal secretary Madeleine Westerhout criticized the program's release and said Trump "worked harder for the American people than anyone else in recent history."
"What an outrageous breach of trust when programs leak," wrote Westerhout. "What these meetings do not show are the hundreds of calls and meetings that @realDonaldTrump takes every day."
This is not the first case where Trump's use of "executive time" has been critiqued. The President has been relying on the designation for more than a year, in accordance with the early 2018 schedules also obtained by Axios.
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