Trump Was SHOCKED To Learn His Presidential Schedule Was Public

According to testimony given to the January 6th Committee that was released this week, Donald Trump didn't know that his daily schedule was being given to the public until his last few weeks in office. This practice has been standard for decades, and Trump's daily schedule had also been the subject of countless news reports throughout his administration, so how could he not know this was public? Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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According to transcripts released by the January 6th committee this week, Donald Trump had no idea that his daily schedule was public until December of 2020. So about a month before he left office, Donald Trump, according to former Deputy White House Press secretary, Judd Deer. That's the point when Donald Trump said, hold up a minute, guys. You're telling me that you've been giving this to the press? You, you, you mean to tell me anybody in the country could have seen what I was doing on any given day? After four years in office, he finally realized that, but apparently, according to, uh, Mr. Deer, that is in fact what happened. So when Donald Trump learned about this, he instructed his staff to go ahead and put in the daily schedule that Mr. Trump woke up very early and began working. He had many calls and many meetings. Tho those, by the way, were the exact quotes, say that there were mini calls and many meetings, and that he continued to work late into the evening, and then he would just repeat the same thing the following day.

So for the last month in office, even though Trump wasn't actually doing anything, according to his own staff, they were forced to put out these bogus daily schedules, acting like he had many, many things to do, and he's been up since the crack of dawn and is not going to bed to the wee hours of the evening. Now, we all know that's not true. We know that's not what Donald Trump did. But the big question I have is, how in the hell did this man not know that his schedule was public? I mean, the things on Donald Trump's daily schedule had been headline news during his administration. That's how we know about things like executive time, where he would just go sit and plop himself in a chair and watch tv. Like that was a national story. And Donald Trump watches TV every day. He even watched the networks he didn't like.

So how did he not put two and two together and realize that they're talking about executive time? Because it's in his daily schedule that was released to the public every single day. And by the way, the President's daily schedule has been released to the public every day for decades. So either Donald Trump just didn't think he needed to put the pieces of that puzzle together, or he was so painfully oblivious about what went on in his own White House that he really simply had no idea. And if that is the case, is that not also concerning? What else did Donald Trump not know was happening while he was president? This man was worse than grossly

Incompetent. He was willfully ignorant, if you ask me. He didn't wanna know what else was going on. It didn't bother him. It didn't affect him. It didn't impact his day whatsoever. All he cared about was, is the media talking about me? Good? Do I need to go out and attack them because they said something I don't like? Okay, I'll do it. Beyond that, the guy didn't care about anything else while he was in office, which is just another reason that we can add to the long list of other reasons why this man should never be allowed back in office again.