Michael Scherer

And that may have hurt the Biden administration.

You're describing a president who serves the government, who serves the White House.

And I think Trump is sort of the reverse of that.

You know, he is a president who is served by the White House and the government around him.

The other thing is...

He's always loved being on the phone with lots of people.

I mean, going back to his time in New York, he would get on the phone with reporters all the time, get on the phone with friends all the time.

You know, I talked to Bobby Kennedy, the HHS secretary, and he said he gets phone calls really late at night from the president.

So I think the president is doing work late at night and he'll just call up

cabinet members or advisors late at night to talk through things.

You know, the other thing the president has, which we haven't talked about, is he has his own little superstructure inside the White House of aides who basically just work with him, who just provide him information, who just are sort of channeling people to him outside the structure that Susie's created.

And so I think he's operating in that world as well, and that includes contact with lots of his friends,

Contact with business executives, contact with donors.

I mean, the amount of time he spent in this first year on planning events for America's 250 celebration, a new ballroom, redoing the Kennedy Center.

you know, fixing golf courses.

I mean, you could just go on and on, like, redoing the Oval Office, putting signs up on the colony.

I mean, he's spending all this time doing stuff that no president has ever spent time doing, but he loves it, and that's what he chooses to do.

There is a line in the Obama White House that they would say a lot that any question that ultimately makes it to the president has no easy answer, that all the easy answers were already made below him.

I don't think there are many questions that make it to Trump that Trump doesn't think are easy to answer.

I don't think he's spending a lot of time, like to Ashley's point about gut instinct, I think