Tracking Donald Trump’s Activity on Twitter by his private schedule

Does the President of the United States tweet too much?

Several weeks ago, Axios.com published the leaked private schedule of Donald Trump. The leaked schedule lists, with some detail, what the US President is supposed to do during a period that (roughly) ranges from November ’18 to January ’19. Among the many mysteries of these schedules, there is an activity called ‘executive time.’ Axios.com didn’t understand what does ‘executive time’ mean, but Professor Mike Kearney from the Missouri University school of journalism suggested that someone could try to figure out if ‘executive time’ were the synonym of ‘tweet time’ which is something I did.

Luckily, Axios.com provided the .csv version of the President’s schedule, which I downloaded. Mike Kearney was right, to some extent: Donald J. Trump loves to tweet while he is on executive time and, secondly when he is traveling. Moreover, there are several tweets posted when he is at a meeting with White House officials or during solo launches.