This just in: Donald Trump is adapting quickly to being POTUS. For the most part, things are going OK, though he’s not happy about how how much the job is cutting into his TV time. Also, he would like to take a vacation soon.
The New York Times got a behind-the-scenes peek at Mr. Trump’s daily life in the White House and it’s about as fascinatingly boring as you might imagine.
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Here are a few facts we learned about Donald’s day-to-day routine:
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- He wakes up every morning before 6 a.m. and watches TV for several hours. First, he watches it upstairs in the residence, which he describes as “very elegant,” then he goes downstairs to the dining room in the West Wing and continues watching it there there while he reads the paper.
- His morning TV-watching continues for approximately three hours, until 9 a.m. when his daily briefings start, which the Times says is a challenge because it “significantly curtails his television time.”
- In the evenings, he retreats back upstairs to the residence where he continues watching more television late into the night while munching on Lay’s potato chips and tweeting from an unsecured Android phone.
- He sleeps in the White House master bedroom, which he praises for its “pure elegance and room size,” as well as its history. “There’s something very special when you know that Abraham Lincoln slept there,” he says.
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Other facts glimpsed from the article include:
- Donald Trump doesn’t read books.
- He is impressed by the scale of the White House, which is the only property he has ever slept in that is more famous than his own.
- He and his staffers are so in awe of the Oval Office that sometimes they just stare at it. “I’ve had people come in; they walk in here and they just want to stare for a long period of time,” he says.
- He claims the White House phones are “the most beautiful phones I’ve ever used in my life.” They are also “the world’s most secure,” so he doesn’t have to worry about anyone listening in on his calls, which apparently he finds very reassuring.
- He doesn’t mind spending all day and night inside the building because, as the Times puts it, “Mr. Trump can go for days without breathing in fresh outside air.”
As for his family, Donald says Melania and Barron are back in New York recouping from last weekend’s exhausting inaugural festivities. They’ll return to Washington, D.C. for the weekend. The family is already planning a vacation. They’re eyeing a getaway to Mar-a-Lago the first weekend in February, just two weeks after Donald started his new job.
Remember when he said Hillary Clinton didn’t have the “stamina” to be President?
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PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Literally the banality of evil
Paco
Please keep eating those potato chips.
dave_elliott
It’s interesting, but Hitler was kinda the same in that he spent most of his time watching movies. Just a couple of evil couch potatoes.
Mo Bro
Wow, the angst from Lefties is downright palpable now, and the hate is actually dripping from their slack jaws.
The good news is that the California drought has apparently been remedied by the tears of liberals.
imthedoctor
And you said we weren’t good for anything.
Hussain-TheCanadian
It seriously doesn’t bother you that he spends most of his day watching TV?
BigWill
I thought you were going to take up with women. Why are you still reading a gay site? Didn’t work out so well for you?
FnameLname
how do you not even know that slack jaws are rednecks? Yes a stereo type of southern rednecks…. not usually associated with being liberal. I also don’t think that many Californian’s are crying so much as laughing at this point.
Mo Bro
@BigWill
Like most “tolerant” gay men, you seem to forget that your alphabet keeps expanding to include more and more societal outcasts while ignoring the big ol’ B already in the soup (and I’ll remind you since you’re apparently unable to grasp it . . . that B stands for Bisexual, which I am, meaning I’m someone which your own ideology demands you accept . . . until you decide, of course, that your identity has nothing whatsoever to do with your sexuality and everything to do with liberal politics, at which point you’ll gladly throw me under the bus).
scotshot
@MoBro
I’m ready to throw you under the bus now.
We’ve had to listen to a mean spirited neurotic sociopath the last several years and it appears you strongly identify with him. Why don’t you and Donald have a pity party to wonder why no one likes you two Snowflakes.
I don’t Identify with with you silly man I but pity you. Go force yourself on someone else, you’re not accepted.
Heywood Jablowme
Which cartoons does he watch in the morning?
RIGay
God Forbid he miss “The View”.
BigWill
“he goes downstairs to the dining room in the West Wing and continues watching it there while he reads the paper”
Yeah, like Donald Trumps reads a newspaper…
Jack Meoff
My bet is that he is watching the financial news and stock market to manage his businesses and investments and NOT because he is keeping up with world events that could require attention by his administration.
1EqualityUSA
or making sure Mika says, “Resident Obama” as a test of her loyalty?