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Newt Gingrich Defends Trump Spending Hours a Day Doing Nothing: Churchill Took Naps in His Pajamasby Aidan McLaughlin | Feb 4th, 2019, 8:00 am
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An apparently disgruntled White House staffer leaked President Donald Trumps entire schedule for the past three months to Axios. It found that Trump has spent a whopping 60% of his schedule in Executive Time. Trump is an early riser, and takes the first five hours of the day in Executive Time: in the residence, watching TV, reading the papers, and responding to what he sees and reads by phoning aides, members of Congress, friends, administration officials and informal advisers, per Axios.
To Newt Gingrich, this report and the response to it is yet another example of the elites being ignorant.
Link to tweet
Winston Churchill was known to take an afternoon power nap of at least an hour, which he claimed allowed him to work productively into the night. Its materially different to Trump spending five hours every morning watching television and tweeting, but we understand Gingrichs point.
UPDATE: Newt is still tweeting:
Link to tweet
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https://www.mediaite.com/online/newt-gingrich-defends-trump-spending-hours-a-day-doing-nothing-churchill-took-naps-in-his-pajamas/
htuttle
(23,738 posts)Botany
(70,581 posts)I have visited the Churchill's bunker and it is very small. Trump lives in the White House and spends
his weekends @ mere large Oh.
Newt Gingrich "great historian."
spanone
(135,873 posts)neither is newt
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)Churchhill was a drunk and as soon as the war was over, the UK threw him out of office because they all knew it. I for one wouldn't chose him as any model for a civic leader. Reagan was becoming senile virtually throughout his entire time in office. A condition apparently accelerated by getting shot. Newt is a guy that has a rather distorted view of history and shouldn't be relied upon for historical insights.
book_worm
(15,951 posts)The British people felt that Labour policies were better suited for the post-war than conservative policies.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)They all knew he was a drunk, but it was his politics that got him thrown out.
BumRushDaShow
(129,440 posts)Yet the black President does it and -
By AMIE PARNES
08/17/2011 09:20 AM EDT Updated 08/17/2011 01:37 PM EDT
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Last week, a few hours after the White House announced the president would head to Marthas Vineyard Thursday for a 10-day vacation, the Republican National Committee sent out a press release querying, And this is the same White House that says they are focused on the economy?
Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich told Fox News host Sean Hannity that Obama ought to cancel his vacation period.
https://www.politico.com/story/2011/08/obamas-vacation-stirs-criticism-061553
FTFF!
kacekwl
(7,021 posts)US President.
thucythucy
(8,086 posts)including pretty much every briefing book and memo that came across his desk. He wrote tens of thousands of pages of memos to staff in his government. He traveled to war zones multiple times (Egypt, France) prepared assiduously for meetings with foreign leaders, cultivated alliances, took advice from experts (especially when it came to science), etc. etc,
Yes, he drank--a lot. He was also a racist and an imperialist.
I'd say the racism is about the only thing Churchill and Trump have in common.
Also, Churchill had way better taste in art.
area51
(11,920 posts)comparing lazy Trump to Churchill. Go crawl back under the rock you crawled out from.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)"for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values"