Golfing helped Trump have 'one of the most successful first years in office,' Sarah Huckabee Sanders says

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last updated 3 January 2018

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, feel free to call a mulligan.

On Tuesday, a reporter asked the White House press secretary what "accomplishments" President Trump had made on the golf course — a place he has spent a considerable amount of his presidency, particularly during his holiday vacation at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last week.

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Despite his numerous denunciations of former President Barack Obama's golfing trips and his own assertion during the campaign that he'd be too busy to golf if elected, Trump has golfed on more than a quarter of his days as president, Business Insider notes. In Sanders' defense, foreign leaders like Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and lawmakers like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) have recognized that golfing with Trump is an effective way to get the president's attention.

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Kelly O'Meara Morales is a staff writer at The Week. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and studied Middle Eastern history and nonfiction writing amongst other esoteric subjects. When not compulsively checking Twitter, he writes and records music, subsists on tacos, and watches basketball.

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