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WASHINGTON DC – The picture painted by the leaking of President Trump’s private schedules, that he is a lazy lay-about who watches television all day, reads stacks of newspapers, prepares and posts tweets, and has casual conversations with White House staff, is incorrect, according to administration officials.

Madeleine Westerhout, the director of Oval Office operations, took to Twitter on Monday to vent her anger, labeling the leaking of the documents as a “disgraceful breach of trust.”

She said the leaked schedules, covering several months, do not show “the hundreds of calls and meetings” the president is involved in every day.

“President Trump has a different leadership style than his predecessors and the results speak for themselves, he spends much of his average day in scheduled meetings, events, and calls,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Monday.

Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, said “whoever leaked it doesn’t know what he’s doing for a net block of time.”

The leaked 95 pages of schedules show 60% of the president’s time since the November midterm elections has been allocated for him to casually meet with staff members, peruse newspapers, watch television and make phone calls to officials and informal advisers.

Sanders explained the schedule was to allow “for a more creative environment that has helped make him (Trump) the most productive president in modern history.”

The private schedules were obtained and published by the Axios website on Sunday.