Do little work Donald Trump or less than its predecessors?
That question is at the center of the latest controversy involving the President of the United States, once on Sunday, Axios news portal disseminate their time deprived of the last three months.
An anonymous source in the White House leaked to that between 95 pages of the agenda of the President, where you can see that around 60% of its activities are “Executive time”.
Hundreds of users on social networks questioned Trump productivity during those hours of “Executive time” and the topic occupied numerous headlines in the country.
“The apparent madness of Trump is a perfectly planned strategy,” the White House, for its part, defends the schedule of activities of the ruler and highlighted the positive results obtained by Trump during his tenure.
But, in what is called “Executive time” and why is it controversial?
Indefinite John Kelly, Chief of staff of the White House’s Trump until last January, was who created the concept of “Executive time” due to “the President hated being trapped on a regular schedule,” according to published Axios.
The website explains that “Executive time” is a strip of flexible hours where there is no fixed scheduled activities and may include watch television, read newspapers, talking on the phone with other politicians and civil servants or tweeting, according to six unnamed sources that quotes that portal.
Trump said that the sending of soldiers to Venezuela is “a choice” already in January 2018, Axios had revealed that Trump had “Executive time” 8 to 11 in the morning and that your day on the White House began at 11:00 am, unlike other Presidents , as George W. Bush, which began at 6:45 am.
In this report for more than one year ago, Axios quoted officials who argue that “Executive time almost always means a time to see television and Twitter in the residence (of the President)”.
New new presidential schedules filtration filtration covers the daily agenda of Trump in the last three months.
From 7 November (the day after the elections of half period), Donald Trump has spent in total 297 hours time Executive ”, distributed generally among the first five hours of the day or at the end of the same, and 77 hours in pre-programmed meetings.
However, the Axios portal clarifies that the times posted does not necessarily include all meetings and/or activities of Trump, because many are spontaneous and because there is a more detailed schedule that sees only a small team of people from the White House.
The web site recognizes that what appears as”Executive” in the filtering schedule may actually be a generic way of referring to other meetings that do appear in the quieter schedule.
Questioning the broadcast schedules of the President unleashed a wave of criticism and ironic comments by hundreds of Americans, who came to check to Trump’s “vague”.
“The next time that someone asked me what I did on my vacation, instead of saying that I took many NAPs, ate junk food and saw television, only I will say ‘Executive time'”, tweet Sunday Matthew Dowd, American chain ABC News political analyst.
“It does not begin to ‘work’ until almost noon. 60% of its schedule is informal ‘ Executive ‘ time. These leaks say a lot about the hatred that he has his own team. Who is managing things in reality? “, wrote the lawyer and feminist activist Amee Vanderpool on Monday.”
A matter of perception?
There are, however, who believes that the controversy is simply a matter of perception.
Brandon Rottinghaus, Professor of political science of the University of Houston, Texas, told BBC news that “the absence of scheduled activity does not necessarily mean that the President is not working”.
“All the Presidents work differently and have a flow of work tailored to their needs,” he says.
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Russell Riley, researcher on presidential issues of the Center Miller of the University of Virginia, USA, considers that “it is difficult to tell if Trump is working less than other Presidents” and believes that it is possible that he is very busy.
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While acknowledging that “schedule shows an excessively limited planning horizon, which seems to confirm that the White House does not know what he is doing”.
“It can if you keep busy, but its activities are result of impulses, rather than strategy and planning,” he points out.
“The most productive President of modern history” Sarah Sanders, the White House Press Secretary, sent a statement to Axios that says that “Trump has a style of leadership than of their predecessors and the results speak for themselves”.
“Despite the fact that he spends much of his average day in meetings, events, and scheduled calls, there is time to allow (that there is) a more creative atmosphere, which has helped it to become the most productive President of modern history”, said Sanders.
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Ron Christie, exasesor of former President George W. Bush, went further and questioned the filtration of the times in an interview with the program “Beyond 100 Days” of the BBC.
“Yes, we can laugh at having ‘long Executive’, but who have done this (filter the agenda) was very reckless and irresponsible,” he said.
“If you have a problem with the President, if you don’t like it, you should go, but the idea to humiliate him is disgusting.”
