Trump Working Up to 12-Hour Days, Oval Office Logs Show: Report

This ain’t Joe Biden’s White House.

Contrary to a recent New York Times report claiming President Trump is losing a step, Oval Office logs show the POTUS has been working up to 12-hour days.

From The New York Post:

The previously unpublished “private narrative” documents span 10 weekdays between Nov. 12 and Nov 25 — the day the Times story was published — and show the president worked roughly 50-hour weeks, not counting any official duties that may have been performed on weekends.

The White House made the rare decision to share the logs to counter the narrative that Trump, 79, is slowing with age — with the files instead showing him working longer hours than the average American as he overhauls trade and immigration policies, attempts to end the Russia-Ukraine war and spearheads the most significant construction at the White House in decades.

The files also do not list unsolicited cellphone calls that he’s known to answer early in the morning and late into the night or his after-hours social media posts.

On Wednesday, Nov. 12, the president’s Oval Office aides logged 32 meetings and calls with subordinates, lawmakers and businessmen on the day that Congress voted to end the 43-day government shutdown.

Trump started that day with a 10:30 a.m. staff meeting in the Roosevelt Room before launching into back-to-back phone calls and meetings with officials, including Vice President JD Vance and Staff Secretary Will Scharf. He placed six calls to lawmakers, three to judicial nominees and one to an architect.

Trump ended the day with a 7:45 p.m. dinner with Wall Street CEOs, an after-10 p.m. bill-signing event to end the shutdown and a meeting with a corporate executive that began at 10:40 p.m., according to the records.

“The New York Times cobbled together half-baked data to push a narrative that President Trump, who is clearly sharp as a tack, is somehow unfit to be president, after they covered for Joe Biden’s clear cognitive decline,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told The Post after ripping into the Times’ portrayal at her regular briefing Monday afternoon.

“The truth is President Trump never stops working, and his private schedule, Truth Social posts, and around-the-clock engagement on every issue proves just that.”

Read the full report over at The New York Post:

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— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) December 2, 2025