Jesse Dollemore pointed out that Donald Trump is himself teleworking while his administration has been campaigning against telework for federal workers, he’s hanging out at Mar-A-Lago. I pointed that out last month, that Trump and also Elon Musk spent the campaign teleworking from Mar-a-Lago, not any office.
ProPublica – Dispatches February 22, 2025 · In today’s newsletter: Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica’s editor in chief, on the untrue stat the Trump administration keeps citing as it targets federal workers, and more from our newsroom. The White House did not respond to my questions about why its Jan. 20 statement cited a claim about federal workers that had been so clearly refuted. The portrayal of federal workers as lazy and indolent continues to be a central aspect of the president’s plans to slash government employment. On Wednesday in Miami, Trump said federal workers should “show up to work in person like the rest of us,” adding that: “You can’t work at home. They’re not working. They’re playing tennis, they’re playing golf, or they have other jobs. But they’re not working, or they’re certainly not working hard.” (Multiple news outlets noted that Trump had golfed on nine of his first 30 days in office.)