Following his brilliant 2026 State of the Union address, it has become evermore apparent that we have an extraordinary individual in the White House. Although Donald Trump is less than 16 weeks from age 80, he works more hours than the typical career professional, small business entrepreneur, corporate executive, or head of a major organization.
Not Typical at All
Consider this: the average career professional who holds a nine-to-five job works 250 weekdays, out of 365 total days in a year, with about 10 days of vacation. Eight hours per day, for 250 days, yields a work year of 2,000 hours. Those who are career climbers often work much more than 40 hours a week, perhaps 50 hours or more. Individuals operating their own business often will work 60 to 70 hours per week or more.
President Trump does not average 60 to 70 hours a week. He is likely at 100 hours and then some. He's on the job seven days a week, averaging at least 15 hours, which sums to at least 105 hours. Reportedly, it’s even more, often 18 hours a day. For whatever reason, Donald Trump has the natural gift of operating effectively on very little sleep. The fakestream press/Google offers endless links to Trump dozing off, but who cares? He has more than earned it with the countless hours he devotes to the USA.
In assessing any highly energetic 30, 40, and 50-year-olds whom you might know, ask yourself if they could keep up with Donald Trump. On numerous occasions, during international flights, especially on the return to the U.S., while the entire press pool is exhausted, Trump is still awake, alert, and working. He did this on the trip to Asia, stopping in Qatar, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and China.
Two for the Price of One
As press secretary Karoline Leavitt has said, reporters who fly with the White House senior staff are often embarrassed that they cannot keep up with Donald Trump. While they’re deep in slumber, the President is still working away — addressing staff, handling phone conversations from around the world, and tending to other matters.
In essence, we've elected somebody who puts in double the hours that he is paid to do. We're getting two presidents for the salary of one: someone so dedicated to the job and on top of the issues, that in this second four-year term, he is offering us at least eight years' worth of leadership. And he donates his salary!
If you're a Democrat or are otherwise on the left, you dread this capability. After all, you seek to bring down the nation as quickly as possible. Everything that Donald Trump is achieving for America is to your utter disdain. If you're a Republican or are otherwise on the right, you are delighted that one of the most highly productive individuals in U.S. history leads our nation.
Redux with Gusto
While Donald Trump displayed much of the same energy during his first term, today, nearly a decade after November 2016, he is providing even greater output. It defies logic and perhaps even medical science, but the reality is that the man outworks virtually everyone.
If you don't like him, can't stand them, or wish him ill, with any semblance of rationality left in your brain, you’d still have to concede that few people can match him. From the standpoint of personal productivity, hours worked, and output, few individuals in America or, for that matter, anywhere on Earth have this level of work-related energy.
President Trump’s accessibility to staff, elected officials, heads of state, the hostile fakestream press, military leaders, and so many others is, in a word, astounding. He will speak unscripted to the press more times in a few weeks than Joe Biden did in four years.
An Exceedingly Tough Act to Follow
With the cameras rolling, President Trump conducts high-level meetings, as well as entertaining world leaders, with a large contingency of cabinet secretaries, domestic and international journalists, and personal aids and assistants in attendance.
Whoever succeeds Donald Trump as president of the U.S. is not likely to possess the capability to work the number of hours that he has consistently put in. Week after week, month after month, and year after year, in both terms one and two, the leader of the free world continues on.
Let us thank our lucky stars now, in the present, while we have him for another three years. There might not be another like Donald Trump in our lifetimes, or that of our children or grandchildren.