How much TV does Trump watch?

: How much television does the president of the United States watch, between fighting fires around the world and staring down rivals, critics and sceptics at home? At least four hours a day and sometimes eight possibly for President Donald Trump, according to a report.

Always an early riser, Trump wakes up around 5:30 am and switches on the television, and flips through the news channels — CNN, Fox and MSNBC, occasionally — and fires off tweets if something, or someone, he sees sets him off, said a report in The New York Times on Saturday.

Citing “people close to him”, the report said the president spends at least four hours a day in front of TV screens, “and sometimes as much as twice that”, and even during meetings likes to keep an eye on a nearby TV set for the latest news scrolling through the bottom; it’s always news.

And what he misses live, he catches up whenever he can from recordings.

The report was about Trump nearing a year in office, his own struggles and that of his aides dealing with a most unusual president. But his TV-watching habits received more attention than other new and interesting details in the story — such as, he drinks 12 cans of Diet Coke a day.

Four hours is not so bad. An average American adult watched five hours of live and recorded television TV daily in 2016, said a study by Nielsen consumer research.

WASHINGTON