Joe Biden's Fist Bumping With MBS Is a Sign That We're Holding Professional Golf to a Higher Standard Than the President of the United States

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Biden infamously fist bumped MBS and asked him to pump the brakes on oil prices back when they were soaring. Are we holding professional golf in Silicon Valley and Hollywood to a higher standard than the president of the United States? That is a tough question, Sean. I mean, what do we boycott everything? Do we not engage in any country that's doing bad stuff?"

The PGA Tour wanted nothing to do with a rival Saudi-funded golf tour, but like Silicon Valley and the White House, it couldn’t resist the Kingdom’s influence. A sports guy (Rick Maese of the Washington Post) and a foreign policy guy (Jonathan Guyer of Vox) explain.

This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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