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MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Monday torched President Donald Trump's work ethic after another round of private presidential schedules were leaked over the weekend.
Records released by Axios on Sunday show that Trump spent 50 percent of four days last week enjoying unstructured "Executive Time."
Trump insists that the executive time isn't spent relaxing, but Scarborough ridiculed Trump's chest-pounding as "an absolute joke," citing previous reports that also show Trump as having huge blocks of free time every morning.
“We’ve seen one account after another, one person working for Trump after another, saying he often just hunkers down upstairs in the personal quarters,” Scarborough said on Morning Joe. “He spends the majority of his time watching cable news and tweeting, yelling, staring at TV sets like an old man that is in a retirement home instead of a president of the United States who is supposed to be working 24 hours a day.”
Scarborough wasn't done comparing Trump, 72, to a listless retiree living in a home.
“I’m sure most older men in retirement homes live far more active lives than does Donald Trump,” Scarborough said. “But for these people that come out and suggest, and for Donald Trump to suggest he’s worked harder than most any president before him is just an absolute joke.”
Scarborough, a former GOP Congressman, did concede that Trump was number one at something.
“Historians will record, when this presidency is over, that Donald Trump was the laziest president ever to occupy the Oval Office,” Scarborough said, “And did less work than any other president to ever to occupy the Oval Office, full stop.”
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Minutes later, Trump responded to Scarborough on Twitter.
"No president ever worked harder than me (cleaning up the mess I inherited)!" Trump whined.
No president ever worked harder than me (cleaning up the mess I inherited)!— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1549889025.0
It backfired spectacularly. Trump was clearly watching television.
This tweet came just seconds after Joe Scarborough said on Morning Joe that historians will record that no presiden… https://t.co/g9TQffJpNt— Toluse Olorunnipa (@Toluse Olorunnipa) 1549889191.0
@ToluseO @colvinj But he doesn't watch a lot of tv....— Anne Bryant (@Anne Bryant) 1549896338.0
@ToluseO Yeah, and he claims he never watches Joe despite often responding to them. He is transparent about some t… https://t.co/3uDRx1m2Kk— Corrupt Barr (@Corrupt Barr) 1549890890.0
We are not stupid.
@realDonaldTrump He literally says this as he leans back in his recliner and cracks open his 4th diet coke of the m… https://t.co/BwOCNCN5OM— Ryan Hill (@Ryan Hill) 1549906572.0
@realDonaldTrump Than "I." Work harder on grammar.— Mimi Rocah (@Mimi Rocah) 1549894935.0
@realDonaldTrump This is your fourth “I work hard!” tweet in the last two days. Methinks the lady doth protest too much, Donald.— MatthewDicks (@MatthewDicks) 1549889418.0
@realDonaldTrump Dude. You been on vacation one-third of your presidency.— Omar Kelly (@Omar Kelly) 1549893215.0
Honestly, who does Trump think he is fooling?
Not these folks.
@realDonaldTrump No president in history ever had to work so hard to convince us that he works so hard. SAD! #Trump— Andy Ostroy (@Andy Ostroy) 1549890644.0
@realDonaldTrump Laziest president ever— Mia Farrow (@Mia Farrow) 1549898287.0
@realDonaldTrump Do you still think people believe this?— Fred Guttenberg (@Fred Guttenberg) 1549897146.0
@fred_guttenberg @realDonaldTrump tRump's mindless followers believe everything he says or they know he is lying an… https://t.co/PRD7ugc8t4— Jeffrey Guterman (@Jeffrey Guterman) 1549897229.0
@realDonaldTrump Golf. Tweet. Golf. Tweet. Golf. Tweet. Watch TV. Eat hamburgers. Golf. Tweet. THAT’S ALL YOU DO.— Emma Kennedy (@Emma Kennedy) 1549889108.0
@realDonaldTrump People who work hard don't say that they work hard.— Neil Chudgar (@Neil Chudgar) 1549889096.0
Trump has actually surpassed all of his predecessors in time spent not working, among other things.
@realDonaldTrump No time for Golf huh… Hmm… 🤔🤔🤔 👇 https://t.co/9f9lt2oQIY— Ryan Hill (@Ryan Hill) 1549906778.0
@realDonaldTrump I know Trump has trouble with words so.. Maybe pictures will be better. The Grey Area… That’s "… https://t.co/wDhvJ9FBqT— Ryan Hill (@Ryan Hill) 1549906904.0
@realDonaldTrump No President in modern history has worked less than this man! He doesn’t read briefing books (or… https://t.co/v5OsYhu9pA— Ryan Hill (@Ryan Hill) 1549907480.0
@realDonaldTrump You spend 60% of your workday in "executive time", eating cheeseburgers, shitposting on Twitter, a… https://t.co/7TUrKgcNCx— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@Holly Figueroa O'Reilly) 1549896293.0
@realDonaldTrump Dude. You been on vacation one-third of your presidency.— Omar Kelly (@Omar Kelly) 1549893215.0
@realDonaldTrump https://t.co/ox0AN6M4WG— Berta Legas (@Berta Legas) 1549909156.0
As for that "mess" Trump inherited...
@realDonaldTrump You were given a gift from Obama and turned it into shit. You’re an embarrassment who doesn’t work hard at all.— Rage Donkey™️ (@Rage Donkey™️) 1549893201.0
@realDonaldTrump Check out the trend in the # of U.S. jobs over the last decade (blue line). You changed your talk… https://t.co/lYuR8WtZ42— Aaron Sojourner (@Aaron Sojourner) 1549893336.0
@realDonaldTrump Jobs grew for 76 straight months before you became President. Obama created more jobs in his last… https://t.co/mDD7WJhnrc— The Daily Edge (@The Daily Edge) 1549907990.0
Remember when The Simpsons tried to warn us?
@mrnickharvey @realDonaldTrump Simpsons' vision as of 2000: "As you know, we’ve inherited quite a budget crunch fr… https://t.co/YviuDwQ8OA— Uwe Hörmann (@Uwe Hörmann) 1549893371.0
We remember.