Trump’s supporters like to claim that it’s unfair to slag on the guy for doing hardly any work at all because apparently sometimes, during his hours of playtime, he’ll hustle everyone into his office to discuss some inane thought that popped into his head. “He might read something in the paper and immediately you’d get an impromptu meeting on trade,” a person familiar with the president’s scheduling told Politico. “It’s just more impromptu than like a month in advance you have a policy time set that you’re going to work up to.” Mostly, though, it‘s devoted to media bashing from the comfort of his bed and complaining that bombs sent to prominent Democrats will hurt Republicans in the midterm elections.

. . . dozens of the president’s trademark tweets, driven by TV news coverage, have also emerged during this downtime. He complained Friday morning during a three-hour block of Executive Time, for example, that the rash of attempted pipe bombings had driven coverage of the midterms out of the news.

“Republicans are doing so well in early voting, and at the polls, and now this ‘Bomb’ stuff happens and the momentum greatly slows - news not talking politics,” Trump wrote. “Very unfortunate, what is going on. Republicans, go out and vote!”

During another block of unstructured time last week, he complained about a story published by The New York Times, revealing that Chinese and Russian intelligence agents routinely eavesdropped on his unsecured cell phone calls, arguing that the “long and boring article” was “so incorrect I do not have the time here to correct it . . . Story is soooo wrong!”

Of course, the fact that one of the worst presidents in history devotes so little time to actually doing his job might not necessarily be such a bad thing, but it’s still a marvel to behold.

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