The trip to Florida was canceled; the first lady returned to Washington, and that’s where Trump has remained ever since. I was all by myself in the White House. At the end of 2017, Trump spent days playing golf in Mar-a-Lago, not exactly burning the midnight oil poring over briefing documents. The White House didn’t release public schedules for many of the days that the government has been shut down, but pool reports indicate that not much was going on. But for the most part, he stayed hunkered down in the White House behind those machine guns.

Source: Washington Post January 03, 2019 18:07 UTC