The White House said Trump 'will be working all day.' Instead he's been angrily tweeting about impeachment.

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Working hard or hardly working?

White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham on Wednesday said President Trump would mostly be focusing on his job as the nation's commander-in-chief while the House debates impeachment before a planned vote later in the day. His aides would reportedly keep him up to date, and he would try to catch some of the proceedings in between meetings.

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To be fair, Grisham did not say the president wouldn't have time to get on social media in between all those meetings.

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Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.