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How Trump's daily White House schedule full of 'executive time' compares to Obama, Bush, and Clinton

John Haltiwanger   

How Trump's daily White House schedule full of 'executive time' compares to Obama, Bush, and Clinton
Politics1 min read

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  • President Donald Trump is perhaps the most unorthodox commander-in-chief in modern US history, and this even appears to extend to how he schedules each day.
  • According to a recent analysis from Axios based on months of leaked private scheduling, roughly 60% of Trump's time is unstructured.
  • How presidents schedule each day can tell you a lot about their approach to leadership by revealing what they tend to prioritize.

Every president in US history has taken a different approach to what many would describe as the most difficult job in the world.

How presidents schedule each day can tell you a lot about their personality, their approach to policy, and the task of leading the country more generally.

Here's a look at the daily White House schedules of Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.

Read more: A leaked schedule shows Trump reportedly spends up to five hours a day on 'executive time,' and he doesn't hold his first official meetings until the middle of the day

Read more: Trump said 'you have to get rid of' the Russia probe and parroted a Kremlin talking point in a wide-ranging interview

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