Trump told Bob Woodward the he'd watched Dobbs, Carlson, Hannity, Ingraham, Pirro and Fox and Friends. Each show is an hour except for the last one which is three, and into which he frequently calls to deliver long rambling monologues often lasting 45 minutes or more.
Now, I had always imagined that CEO's were very busy people, taking meetings with advisors and reports, powerful allies and even adversaries, getting briefed so that they are up to speed, and occasionally thinking about strategy. Not generally high on their list of activities is watching TV.
Trump claimed (and his supporters apparently believed) that he would bring that CEO skill-set / approach / mentality to the White House. But either he checked those attributes at the door, or (more likely) he never had them. Doing the job, in Trump's White House, appears to involve copious amounts of TV watching (the shows Woodward lists come to between 6 and 9 hours). And worryingly he gets more information from them than he does from his civil service. No wonder we're so royally screwed.
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