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Commentary: In fairness to Trump's 'Executive Time,' meetings really are the worst

Online news site Axios caused a stir Sunday by publishing and analyzing three months' worth of President Donald Trump's (non-public) daily schedules - the ones that inform the White House staff about Trump's plans for the day, not the ones that are released publicly (which you can see at Factbase, which helpfully shows a running total of the days the president has spent golfing).

Trump critics quickly seized on the fact that the president spent 60 percent of his working hours in "unstructured

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