Day 752: Try not to laugh: Trump claims he’s actually working very hard
Every leak, every schedule, every vacation, every piece of evidence out of the White House reveals how little time Donald Trump actually spends working. Even his photos — like the one above and the one below — are staged, ostensibly to show him “working.”
When he’s able to peel himself away from record-breaking time on the golf course, Trump has managed to turn into a White House docent, spending an incredible amount of time giving tours to his guests.
During those tours, he actually brags about the TVs and their capabilities. He clearly gets plenty of use out them too, as he’s apt to live-tweet Fox News, respond to CNN chyrons and criticize or compliment his aides who appear on various shows. As a way to cover up for hours upon hours of TV-watching, the White House came up with a nebulous term: “Executive Time.”
“Executive Time” is a way for Trump to lounge around, chat with friends or catch up on Sean Hannity’s latest missives under the cover of doing something without having to reveal what it is. In reality, he’s not working and everyone knows it.
Cue Sunday’s tweets by Trump where he laughably claimed not only is he working during Executive Time, he’s working probably “work[ing] more hours than almost any past President [sic].”
Trump’s allegation that the nation was in turmoil at the beginning of his tenure is also ridiculous.
Simply compare what Barack Obama inherited to what Trump inherited.
Obama took over a crashing real estate and financial market, soaring unemployment, endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a nationwide healthcare crisis and a litany of other issues.
Trump took over a booming economy, basement-dwelling unemployment numbers, no war in Iraq, more Americans insured than any other time in history and many other positive trends.
Politically — like in life — Trump was born on third base and likes to claim he hit a triple. But the facts don’t lie: he’s done no work to get where he is and seems to have no intention of changing that.
752 days in, 710 to go
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