that covers nearly every working day since the midterm elections. they show that trump has spent around 60% of his scheduled time over the past three months in what is called, quote, unstructured executive time. for example, first schedule from november 7th, 2018, day after the midterm elections. this also happened to be the day that former attorney general jeff sessions was fired. turns out trump spent several hours that day in the aforementioned executive time. his only event was a meeting with his chief of staff. axios notes that the president usually spends the first five hours of the day in executive time, and that those hours are rarely spent in the oval office. we quote, "instead, he spends his mornings in the residence watching tv, reading the papers, and responding to what he sees and reads by phoning aides, members of congress, friends, administration officials, and informal advisers." report does say that not all of the president's activities show up on the schedules that were leaked in this case. and it says a lot of meetings are spur of the moment, while others appear on a more detailed schedule, guarded by a smaller group of west wing aides.