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EXCLUSIVE: Fox Information Digital obtained a duplicate of President Donald Trump’s private schedule since Dec. 1, exhibiting back-to-back calls and conferences that steadily drag into the night.
The president has come underneath heightened scrutiny in current months from the media over his well being and age, together with the New York Instances reporting final month that Trump, 79, is “dealing with the realities of growing old” whereas in workplace. The priority surrounding Trump’s stamina follows the media’s silence on the subject when the then-oldest sitting president, Joe Biden, led from the Oval Workplace – a well being saga that has continued lengthy after Biden dropped out of the 2024 federal election and exited 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. on Jan. 20.
Over the 12 days coated within the inside schedule obtained by Fox Digital, Trump is on the books for roughly 10 hours a day, averaging round 21 separate conferences, calls or occasions per day – whereas some days pack in additional than 30 such occasions.
A replica of the president’s schedule exhibits Trump begins most scheduled calls and conferences round 8:30 or 9 a.m., together with his days sometimes not wrapping up till after 8 p.m.
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President Donald Trump stops and takes questions from reporters on his strategy to Marine One on the South Garden of the White Home on September 22, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump is touring to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for a marketing campaign occasion. (Drew Angerer/Getty Photos)
On Monday, Dec. 1, for instance, Trump kicked off his day at 8:30 am with a telephone name to his chief of employees Susie Wiles, which was adopted by a 9:30 name to Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson, and a 9:35 a.m. name right into a rally. Throughout 10 minutes, Trump then held a collection of rapid-fire conferences with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Wiles, earlier than holding calls with a member of Congress and a political advisor.
The day continued with 18 different conferences, telephone calls and occasions, together with a invoice signing, remarks at a Christmas reception, extra conferences with the secretary of state, Leavitt and his commerce group.
In keeping with Trump’s schedule, his busiest day thus far this month was on Wednesday, Dec. 3, when he held 32 occasions, conferences and telephone calls. He started the day at 9 a.m. with a name to senior employees members, and wrapped the day up at 7:30 p.m., when he met with a “tv persona.”
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Each hour between 9 a.m. and seven:30 p.m. that day included a scheduled occasion or assembly or name.
Trump’s longest work day this month fell on Tuesday, Dec. 9, based on the schedule, at 13 hours and 9 minutes. Trump started his day at 9:46 a.m. with a name to a Cupboard secretary, earlier than holding 5 different conferences, and one different name. He wrapped up the day at 10:55 p.m. after touring to Pennsylvania on Tuesday, the place he delivered a speech centered on his financial insurance policies.
The schedule total confirmed a heightened give attention to international coverage and enterprise, together with 11 separate conferences or calls together with his secretary of state, eight head-of-state periods, three conferences with a particular envoy and two with an envoy. Trump had not less than one CEO or business-focused engagement on 10 of the 12 days, together with 17 direct CEO calls or conferences, a name with “enterprise leaders,” and different occasions on the financial system or know-how.
President Donald Trump speaks on the State Division Kennedy Middle Honors medal presentation dinner on the U.S. Division of State on December 06, 2025 in Washington, DC. The 2025 Kennedy Middle Honorees are Sylvester Stallone, George Strait, the rock band KISS, Gloria Gaynor, and Michael Crawford. (Aaron Schwartz/Getty Photos)
One in all Trump’s lightest days was on the weekend, when Saturday, Dec. 6, recorded 5 hours and 51 minutes of scheduled occasions, together with conferences with Kennedy Middle management and Secret Service management, assembly with the Kennedy Middle Honorees, and participating within the Kennedy Middle’s Honors Dinner.
Trump entered his second time period because the oldest individual ever inaugurated at 78, with the media changing into more and more centered on his well being, together with when he was noticed with swollen legs in July whereas attending the FIFA Membership World Cup remaining in New Jersey, in addition to different images stretching again to February exhibiting bruising on his hand.
The White Home attributed the bruising to frequent handshakes and mentioned the swelling stemmed from continual venous insufficiency — “a benign and customary situation, significantly in people over the age of 70,” based on earlier feedback from Leavitt.
White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt learn out President Trump’s MRI outcomes throughout a Dec. 1, 2025, press briefing. (Francis Chung/Getty Photos)
The media most just lately centered on an MRI scan Trump obtained throughout a checkup at Walter Reed Nationwide Army Medical Middle in Maryland in October, which was described as routine by the administration. The checkup was Trump’s second in 2025, following an April go to that Navy Capt. Sean P. Barbabella, the doctor to the president, mentioned discovered Trump “stays in wonderful health.”
Trump pledged to launch the outcomes of the scan when pressed about it by the media, with the White Home releasing the report a day after Trump’s pledge. The report discovered Trump was in regular and good well being.
“The aim of this imaging is preventative to establish any points early, verify total well being, and make sure the president maintains long-term vitality and performance,” Leavitt mentioned throughout a press convention whereas studying Trump’s MRI report. “… General, his cardiovascular system exhibits wonderful well being.”
President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden on Sunday. (Jose Luis Magana/AP Picture)
The White Home has been fast to problem reporters’ give attention to Trump’s well being, pointing to his well being reviews and the shortage of media protection Biden obtained over his psychological acuity considerations.
Biden’s mental acuity had been underneath conservatives’ microscope since earlier than the 2020 election. Considerations among the many mainstream media, nevertheless, didn’t heighten till February 2024, when particular counsel Robert Hur, who was investigating Biden’s alleged mishandling of labeled paperwork as vp, introduced he wouldn’t advocate legal prices in opposition to Biden for possessing labeled supplies after his vice presidency, calling Biden “a sympathetic, well-meaning, aged man with a poor reminiscence.”
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“I can inform you there was actually a scarcity of transparency from the former president, from the complete former administration,” Leavitt informed reporters in April. “And admittedly, lots of people on this room, when it got here to the well being and the competence of the previous President of america, Joe Biden.”
