Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., took offense to MSNBC’s characterization of President-elect Donald Trump as a golf-playing slacker, telling Newsmax on Friday that network host Lawrence O’Donnell’s assessment “really annoyed the heck out of me.”

On Thursday’s edition of “The Last Word,” O’Donnell suggested that Trump’s newly named White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, would be the one really running the country while Trump spends his time out on the golf course.

“Quite frankly, MSNBC, those remarks that he made were ignorant and just absurd,” Van Drew told “Newsline.” “I mean, nobody has worked harder, even in this campaign, than President Trump. My God, he was only getting a few hours’ sleep every night. He was crisscrossing the country. He was everywhere doing everything.

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