yarrriv: Did anybody expect that of the president until Biden Old discourse?

i don’t actually know this, this isn’t a rhetorical question, but, like, do other representative democracies expect that their heads of state maintain 14-16 hour a day, 7 day a week schedules, or is that just specific to our national obsession with looking busy?

like, does the german political press expect scholz to be engaged in meetings at 8PM?

Did anybody expect that of the president until Biden Old discourse?

I don't think it's entirely new. I remember hearing someone defend George W Bush taking a vacation by saying that a vacation for the President meant working an 8 hour day rather than a 14 hour day.

He also famously took way more vacations than his predecessors. And his brain was kind of shot even though he was a lot younger than Biden.

Yeah, I remember 'look how much time he's spending not at work' articles about each of the preceding 3+ presidents. So it's not an entirely new thing.

He was never a 14 hour day President on the regular.

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