The sales of Fire and Fury show that there's a tremendous public appetite to know what's happening behind the scenes in Donald Trump's White House. Even before Michael Wolff's book, we knew about Trump's kindergartner diet, his T.V. viewing habits, even his need to see positive headlines about himself multiple times a day. Leaks have been so prevalent that Trump randomly calls reporters to try to correct them. And the eagerness for these details makes sense, if only as a coping mechanism. The president's policy decisions and cabinet appointments are actively doing lasting damage to people across the country, and it's almost comforting to know that on the inside the White House is barely functioning. It's like thinking, Imagine the damage if they were organized.

And details about the dysfunction are still coming even after Wolff's book was released. Jonathan Swan at Axios got a look at the president's private schedule, which differs in key ways from the official ones given to the media and the public. Specifically, Trump has designated periods euphemistically called "Executive Time," which he mostly spends watching cable news, making phone calls, and trawling Twitter. One example of the entries reads like this:

On Tuesday, Trump has his first meeting of the day with Chief of Staff John Kelly at 11am. He then has "Executive Time" for an hour followed by an hour lunch in the private dining room. Then it's another 1 hour 15 minutes of "Executive Time" followed by a 45 minute meeting with National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. Then another 15 minutes of "Executive Time" before Trump takes his last meeting of the day—a 3:45pm meeting with the head of Presidential Personnel Johnny DeStefano—before ending his official day at 4:15pm.

Swan points out that Trump's schedule used to be more, let's say, professional, starting earlier in the day and running later at night. As time has gone on, Trump spends under eight hours a day "at work," usually from 11 A.M. to 6 P.M. Though he's kept the "loose, improvisational" management style he had running the Trump Organization, it certainly sounds like the 71-year-old Trump is trying to live the life of a retiree while also being president.

Of course, the White House takes issue with this characterization. While she doesn't seem to contradict any of the facts in Swan's story, Sarah Huckabee Sanders insists in a statement that during his "Executive Time," Trump is actually busy. "The President is one of the hardest workers I've ever seen and puts in long hours and long days nearly every day of the week all year long," she wrote, presumably with a straight face.