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Here are all the times we’re pretty sure that Trump was watching Fox News as president

Analysis by
National columnist
November 29, 2017 at 2:40 p.m. EST
A news report about President Trump plays on a television as he speaks to reporters in the press cabin aboard Air Force One on Sept. 14. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

There are two things that President Trump really likes to do that he also doesn’t like to admit he does: play golf and watch Fox News Channel.

By our count, Trump has played golf on 64 days during his presidency. He rarely admits to it — he has done so only three times — and his staff generally keeps reporters away from the action when he does. But that he travels to golf clubs for several hours at a time on most weekends offers some good clues as to what’s going on, even when pictures of him playing don’t later emerge on social media.