Trump’s day: An 11am start, 5 hours’ work... then TV and Twitter

DONALD Trump turns up for work in the oval office at 11am and sometimes finishes at 4pm, leaked schedules reveal.

It means the President, 71, can put in just five hours including breaks for ‘executive time’ – the term used for when he is tweeting, watching cable TV and venting his rage in phone calls to friends.

The revelations raise more questions about his fitness for office as he struggles with the fallout from Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.

The schedules of the President’s working day were obtained by US politics website axios and differ from those which were previously made available to the media.

They suggest Mr Trump sometimes works for fewer than three hours a day.

His 11am start is far later than George W Bush who usually arrived in the oval office at 6.45am. Barack obama turned up between 9am and 10am but would usually read briefing papers on his own later into the night.

axios highlighted three days this week including today when Mr Trump has his first meeting at 11am, followed by executive time, lunch, more executive time, then another meeting.

Tomorrow Mr Trump has an 11am intelligence briefing, with his last official duty at 4pm. on Thursday he has policy time at 11am followed by executive time. The relaxed schedule is all the more damning because Mr Trump is an early riser. He sleeps for four hours and sometimes tweets before 7am.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders insisted the President’s day begins at 8am when he makes official phone calls before coming down to the oval office from his living quarters. Mr Wolff’s devastating book suggested Mr Trump was an impulsive ‘child’ who was unfit to be President.

In response Mr Trump compared himself to former President Ronald Reagan who also had to put up with unflattering books. But Mr Reagan deflected attacks with humour, once saying: ‘It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?’