![]() ![]() Clinton and Jimmy Carter were known to make middle-of-the-night phone calls, and every president has kept different hours: George W. He is hardly the first president to have an erratic schedule. Trump, by contrast, enjoys huge blocks of unscheduled time in which he can do as he pleases. Past presidents were disciplined in their scheduled time, squired from meeting to meeting, event to event, from the moment they arrived in the Oval Office until they headed up to the residence at night. It reflects what he’s trying to get done with the country.”Īs a freewheeling president in one of the world’s most regimented jobs, Trump appears to be redefining the nature of the role. “The president’s time is, in many ways, his most valuable commodity because it’s finite,” said Mack McLarty, who served as chief of staff for President Bill Clinton’s first year in office. And while the notion of Executive Time, and the president’s increasingly late start to the day, has come under scrutiny over the past year, this new batch of schedules obtained by POLITICO offers fresh insight into the extent to which that unscheduled time dominates Trump’s week and is shaping his presidency, allowing his whims and momentary interests to drive White House business. 26, showed the president had more free time on Tuesday than on any other day that week, but his Tuesday agenda was hardly atypical. meeting with White House chief of staff John Kelly - his first commitment of the day - the rest of his day was unstructured, some in blocks as long as 2 hours and 45 minutes.Ī review of one week of the president’s private detailed schedules, from Monday Oct. ![]() ![]() He was briefed by senior military leaders in the evening and joined them for dinner. The president was slated to spend 30 minutes on the phone with CEOs and make brief remarks at a state leadership conference. ![]()
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