Pool report: Trump, talking to Cabinet about opioids, claimed Mexico and China are using "almost a form of warfare" by "sending their garbage and killing our people.”
There are legit political questions here, like whether Chinese govt does enough to stop fentanyl exports. But on immigration, trade and drugs, Trump regularly attributes the acts of individual foreign actors to malign conspiracies perpetrated by foreign countries' governments.
Pool report: Trump repeated his majestic phrasing on his failure to get his health care plan passed, saying, "We actually got rid of Obamacare except for one vote."
Pool report: Trump said he's in "no rush" on NAFTA; “If we don’t have a breakthrough, don’t do the deal.” He also noted that they are not talking about trade with Canada at the moment, only Mexico.
Trump, making a point about how open he is to the media, let the pool journalists stay in the Cabinet meeting for 56 minutes.
