After President Joe Biden 's public implosion during his dumpster fire of a debate performance on CNN, the dam has finally broken, with current and former aides to the president anonymously breaking ranks and pointing fingers. Alex Thompson reports that "the public split screen" between the incoherent and slack-jawed octogenarian on Thursday and the relatively competent campaigner galvanizing rally-goers the next afternoon is no accidental chasm .
"Biden's miscues and limitations are more familiar inside the White House," Thompson writes. "The time of day is important as to which of the two Bidens will appear. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Biden is dependably engaged — and many of his public events in front of cameras are held within those hours. Outside of that time range or while traveling abroad, Biden is more likely to have verbal miscues and become fatigued, aides told Axios."
Couple Biden's six-hour workday with the fact that he's spent 40% of his presidency on vacation, and our own Zachary Faria asks a great point.
It's not just that Biden is working literally half the amount of time that his predecessors did, but that he's working a fraction of the time that ordinary workers across the country do every day.
Working six hours per day just five days a week totals a 30-hour workweek. The average full-time earner works nearly 42 hours per week, and full-time workers reported working an average of 8.5 hours per day, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In other words, Biden is working just 71% of the time other full-time workers are on the job.
And unlike the majority of workers in the country, Biden has the privilege of literally working from home, meaning that his 10 a.m. start time isn't a result of a nasty commute in D.C. traffic but rather because he is unwilling or, worse, incapable of being ready to start the day earlier.
The schedules of Biden's predecessors paint a stark comparison and model just how all-consuming the job of the presidency should be. Donald Trump notoriously subsists on only four or five hours of sleep, waking up before 6 a.m. both as president and while on the campaign trail and going to bed after midnight. Trump would begin his official workday at the White House at 8 a.m. — he was publicly pilloried for not taking public meetings often until 11 a.m. — and returned to the residence around 6 p.m. Barack Obama, who worked out for 45 minutes every morning without fail, would begin his work day around 8:30 or 9 a.m., return to the residence around 6:30 p.m., and like Trump, work until midnight or later. George W. Bush would get to the Oval Office before 7 a.m., with his days scheduled down to 10-minute increments, and end his working day around 6 p.m.
All in all, Trump, Obama, and Bush all worked about 12-hour work days, even with the more unstructured time of reading and tweeting at the beginning and ends of the days for 44 and 45. Like these men or hate them, there's no denying that they were dedicated to the demands of the presidency.
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The point of comparison matters less because prior presidents worked at all hours but rather because America's enemies work around the clock currently, and already Biden's sundown senility has caused international controversy. The president entirely disappeared from public view for 24 hours while Hamas slaughtered thousands of Israelis on October 7th of last year, and as early as the summer of 2021, yours truly called for a 25th Amendment discussion after disappearing for a week during his cataclysmic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Biden's inability to send so much as a personal email before sunrise or after sundown is an insult to the rest of us who have to work even more hours to afford less as a result of his policies, but worse, it's also a practical danger to the free world, whose leader is now publicly known to be asleep at the wheel while our enemies plan.
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