Donald Trump did announce on Twitter that there’s a “news conference today by lawyers on a very clear and viable path to victory” in the presidential election that he lost to President-elect Joe Biden. These days, Trump sightings are scarce following the election — and his schedule is pretty empty for a president whose legacy will include over two hundred and fifty thousand Americans dying on his watch. Once again, the president has no public events scheduled amid the raging pandemic.
And for a president with an unquenchable desire for praise and adulation, it’s unusual for Trump to be out of the spotlight. Journalists reacted in disbelief.
Yet again, Trump’s daily schedule (for Thursday) says this:
“THE PRESIDENT has no public events scheduled.”Who’s staying in the basement now?
— Jackie Calmes (@jackiekcalmes) November 19, 2020
No events on President Trump’s public schedule again tomorrow. That will mark the 12th day since the election where he hasn’t held any public events. No questions in over two weeks, which is unusual for him.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) November 19, 2020
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And now another per tomorrow’s schedule… https://t.co/TULJa5qZYL
— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) November 19, 2020
Another day without any public events on the president’s schedule, and another night with a late lid. President Trump has been spending his evenings in the Oval Office and West Wing, and aides are never certain when he will want to gather the press (sometimes it’s on a whim).
— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) November 19, 2020
It means that the press who are at the WH aren’t dismissed until late in the evening (which is unusual when nothing is on the president’s schedule) bc his aides suspect there is a chance, even small, he may want to address reporters/cameras.
— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) November 19, 2020
Another White House schedule. Another day of “THE PRESIDENT has no public events scheduled.”
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) November 19, 2020
The president’s schedule has been empty day after day after day but https://t.co/dvT7xIudMs
— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) November 18, 2020
Today marks the 12th day in the 16 days since Election Day that the President has had no public events on his schedule.
This is believed to be the longest stretch Trump has gone without taking questions from reporters, per @betsy_klein
— Ali Zaslav (@alizaslav) November 19, 2020
Thursday marks yet another day with nothing on President Trump‘s publicly released schedule … as the U.S. has surpassed 250,000 reported deaths related to COVID-19
— Ben Gittleson (@bgittleson) November 19, 2020
Trump’s “official work schedule.”
Sometimes, there’s nothing funnier than unintentional humor. https://t.co/8zAcnJxQXM
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen) November 18, 2020
Just a thought: when#Trump ‘s schedule says “the president has no public events scheduled”, shouldn’t they add a twitter schedule somewhere? pic.twitter.com/c7nrYk5d8B
— Rana Abtar – رنا أبتر (@Ranaabtar) November 18, 2020
With nothing on his public schedule and a pandemic gripping the country, Trump is on a Twitter screed pushing false information about the election from which even many Republicans appear ready to move on from.
— Anna Palmer (@apalmerdc) November 18, 2020
Biden campaign senior adviser Valerie Jarrett weighed in, too.
Someone is hiding in his basement, and it’s not @JoeBiden.@NBCNews: Biden holds emotional meeting with health care workers; Trump has no public schedule. https://t.co/BRbs3frNYE
— Valerie Jarrett (@ValerieJarrett) November 18, 2020
If any of us just stopped showing up for work, we’d be fired. Well, we did fire him when we cast our ballots, but at this point, Trump should step down now and let Pence handle the transition.
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