A former Trump Organization executive claimed President Trump spends less time working as commander in chief than when he led his own company.
Barbara Res, who was hired as the head of construction for Trump’s business in the 1980s, said the president appears to be phoning it in.
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“He’s working less. He seems to care less about his job now than he did back when I was working for him,” Res told the Los Angeles Times.
“Maybe it’s because he has more confidence or a greater sense of power sitting in the Oval Office. He thinks he can say and do anything now, or not do anything,” she said. “It looks like he’s not even trying, but he thinks he’s trying. To him, all the watching TV and tweeting is work, so he believes he’s on the clock 24-7, 365.”
Res became one of Trump’s closest advisers in the more than a decade she spent working for him. She worked with him on Trump Tower and the renovation of the Plaza Hotel in New York.
She said during the election she supported Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton over her former boss.
Trump has been scrutinized in the media for the time he spends tweeting about what he’s watching on TV. A leak of Trump’s private schedules earlier this year showed the president spends most of his mornings in unstructured “executive time,” watching the news of the day, tweeting, and making calls.
After the leak, the president defended the hours he spends each morning in the White House residence, saying he is “generally working, not relaxing.”
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