The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

Trump’s personal secretary, Madeleine Westerhout, in regard to an unfortunate leak of the Donald’s burdensome work schedule, tweeted, “This POTUS is working harder for the American people than anyone in recent history.”
If you don’t believe it, check that grueling schedule. Most days, Trump has nothing official to do before 11:00 am, according to the daily guidance given to the media by the press office. Eleven a.m. is when he receives his daily intelligence briefing, condensed for the attention span of a 7 year old holding an X-box. According to detailed private schedules published by Axios, things don’t get much more hectic after that.
Sixty percent of the president’s work life is categorized as “executive time,” meaning what some call unstructured time but I think most of us would call playtime to make phone calls, read newspapers, tweet and watch television. Lots of television. Lots of Fox and Friends. No wonder he doesn’t pay attention to those intelligence briefings, he gets the facts from Fox. And maybe Captain Squarepants although you know and I know we’re not talking about Mike Pence. He’s the original Spongebob.

And don’t forget those countless hours strategizing with his lawyers. How he can cram those into his workday, well, nobody knows. I assume that accounts for the remaining 40% not covered in the ‘executive time’ category.

I don’t know how ‘hard’ Obama and Bush and Clinton and the Bush dad worked. Maybe what is ‘hard’ for Donald wasn’t all that tough for the others. You ever tried writing with crayons? Not easy! You send out a zillion tweets a day? Hard! You ever played golf every other weekend? Before you criticize the POTUS for being lazy, walk a mile in his golf shoes, why don’tcha? No, ‘hard’ is a relative adverb. One man’s hard is another’s very long coffee break. Or sick leave. Or vacation. Or what folks used to call ‘featherbedding.’

But now I understand why so many candidates are throwing their hats into the ring for this next election. Great pay, huuge benefits, minimal hours with a paid staff of bodyguards and chefs and secretaries and mistresses. Plenty of vacation leave too! No experience necessary or even desired. You asked me, it’s as close to a rich guy’s welfare as we can get. Did I mention the pension plan?

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