Even those celebrations are getting slightly abridged, though, to accommodate the incoming president’s lighter tolerance for a long workday. According to The Washington Post, Trump plans to spend three days celebrating and shaking hands at three inaugural balls. His parade is expected to last only about 90 minutes, record speed for such an affair. Obama, by contrast, spread his inaugural festivities over five days and popped into 14 official balls when he was sworn in, and his parade stretched out for more than two hours. Axios’s Mike Allen reports that Trump’s inaugural address is also supposed to clock in as shorter than average.

Friends have said that the insular president-elect, who is accustomed to getting his own way, will try to maintain his version of normalcy once he is in office. Corey Lewandowski, his former campaign manager, told the Post that Trump won’t necessarily make the same photo-ops and public appearances that past presidents have seen as a necessary part of the job. “A lot of what you see by previous presidents are platitudes: ‘I’m going to go and pretend I’m supportive of a particular entity and serve food at a soup kitchen,’” he said. “Donald Trump wants to bring jobs back so we don’t have soup kitchens. He has not been a person to do staged events for the sake of doing staged events.” His pal Newt Gingrich said “he’ll be very distant,” though Americans will get to see him “by tweet.” Newsmax chief executive and longtime Trump buddy Christopher Ruddy told the paper that Trump “likes to be in his comfort zone, which are his golf clubs and his homes,” around “people he’s comfortable with and likes, and if he doesn’t feel comfortable around you, he’s not going to be inviting you around.”

Surely, most presidents don’t necessarily want to make all of those kinds of appearances. They don’t necessarily feel comfortable with all the trappings of the job, and they don’t necessarily like all the people they have to shake hands with or invite around. They don’t all want to uproot their lives and move into the White House—the people’s house. They don’t all want to give up their lucrative private jobs, either. But they do. Because it is a job that requires a tremendous amount of personal sacrifice for the privilege of leading the country.

Trump isn’t making many of these sacrifices. He is still holding on to his business, despite the unprecedented level of conflicts of interest that could arise. He is still mostly spending time in New York City at Trump Tower, despite the fact that it is costing the city $500,000 a day to secure it (and, according to reports, costing local businesses some $40 million in lost revenue since Election Day, due to all the security and traffic closures in Midtown).

On one hand, it’s understandable why Trump would be shying away from the gig. He will take office with the lowest approval rating of any recent president, according to a new CNN/ORC poll, more than 20 points below those for Obama, President Bill Clinton, and President George W. Bush when they were sworn in. More than 40 Democratic lawmakers are boycotting his inauguration, for which he could not secure one A-list celebrity to perform (even C- and D-list have proved to be tricky). For a man so concerned with being praised and liked and accepted—one who glues himself to cable-news coverage and tunes into Saturday Night Live to closely watch his portrayal—such blows leave a bruised ego.

The good news for Trump is that he has been able to shirk all kinds of norms already. He hasn’t, for example, released his tax returns, as presidential candidates have for decades. He has eschewed daily presidential briefings and feuded with U.S. intelligence agencies. He didn’t give the typical post-election press conference, instead waiting more than two months to take questions. Instead, the role appears to be less about the tradition—which is the cool part for most who have stepped into the role—and far more about the win, the power, the accolades. Perhaps there will be no before-and-after photos of Trump, then. Whatever unnatural mechanism is responsible for that hair isn’t going anywhere anyway.