White House understated extent of Trump’s golf outing

Published February 20, 2017 9:25pm ET



The White House on Monday admitted that President Trump Sunday actually played more than “a couple” of holes of golf in Florida, as the White House originally claimed.

“As stated yesterday the President played golf. He intended to play a few holes and decided to play longer,” spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. “He also had a full day of meetings, calls and interviews for the new NSA, which he is continuing today before returning to Washington, D.C., tonight.”

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