From the moment Donald Trump was sworn in as president on the steps of the Capitol until noon Monday, precisely one month had passed. A total of 744 hours.
Here's how he spent each one.
Let's start at the top.
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Trump's time in D.C.
The president spent a little under three-quarters of his time in and around Washington during his first month in office. A little less than half of that was time during which he was officially working - as measured by the time between when the media was told to show up in the morning (known as "call time") until the media was dismissed in the evening (known as "the lid"). This is an imprecise measure of when a president is working, of course; he might take meetings after hours or review documents that are pertinent to his job. That difference is impossible to measure, though, so, in our calculus it blends together with obvious downtime, like when the president is asleep. Or when he's watching TV, which is also impossible to measure.
Much of Trump's work time fell into a few basic categories. The estimates below are based on pool reports. Most events were assumed to be an hour, unless the schedule made obvious that the length was shorter or longer. (Numbers below and on the accompanying chart are rounded.)
- Intelligence briefings: 6 hours
- News conferences: 4 hours
- Signing bills and executive orders: 6 hours
- Phone calls and meetings with foreign leaders: 21 hours
- Listening sessions with various groups: 14 hours
Trump spent 182 hours between call time and the lid with other events that were listed on his public calendar, though not every hour was accounted for during that time. Not captured in those categories are a few special events: the inauguration, the National Prayer Breakfast and the two hours his family spent watching "Finding Dory" in the White House theater. (His press secretary says that Trump didn't join in.)
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Trump's time on Twitter
The president, as you may be aware, likes to use Twitter. How much time he spends on it can be hard to determine, so here's how I arrived at my estimate.
On not infrequent occasion, one of two things will happen: Trump will tweet a string of thoughts over multiple tweets or Trump will delete and reissue a thought on Twitter. To figure out how long it took him to draft a tweet, I averaged how much time usually elapsed between those tweets since Jan. 20. On average? Eight minutes and 20 seconds.
Using data from the Trump Twitter Archive, I then looked at each tweet sent from an Android device - the best indicator when it's Trump himself tweeting - and calculated how much time in total was spent on those tweets, assuming each was given an eight-minute window. Since most of his Android tweets come outside of normal work hours, his tweets were counted in the "other time" period.
In short: Trump spent an estimated 13 hours on tweets in D.C. and another five hours while in Florida. In total, Trump sent 128 tweets from an Android device, of 199 total since he was inaugurated. Some of those other tweets were clearly from him, like the one below, but we only included Android tweets.