US PRESIDENT Donald Trump tweets from bed, “hate-watches” television, hogs the remote and drinks a dozen Diet Cokes a day.
Gathering interviews from 60 advisers and others who have worked closely with the president, a New York Times profile has laid out just how the man who was “utterly unprepared” for the world’s most powerful job goes about it.
According to top aides, Mr Trump told his closest advisers to think of each day in his presidency as “an episode in a television show in which he vanquishes rivals”.
Advisers describe Mr Trump’s daily schedule as an hour-by-hour battle, and have shared how his habits are “redefining what it means to be president”.
The President’s day starts at about 5.30am, when he wakes and watches Fox & Friends on Fox News, iPhone in hand and propped up on a pillow. Occasionally he’ll also watch the slightly more lowbrow Morning Joe on MSNBC because, the article notes, “friends suspect it fires him up for the day”.
