Over the past 50 years, fewer and fewer Americans have been working the graveyard shift — except in retail

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America’s worker-in-chief, Donald J. Trump, does much of his — it would be wrong to say best work — but at least his most busy work after midnight and on into the wee hours of the morning. In 2008, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign against Barack Obama ran a famous ad asking voters who they wanted answering when the White House phone rang at three in the morning. A modern-day Republican riposte would probably say: “Not to worry: Donald Trump has been up for hours and is wide awake.”

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(Trump’s contrary tendency to nod off during cabinet meetings has been widely criticized — though mainly by people who have never had to sit through a Trump cabinet meeting.)

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