Donald Trump Met With Truckers At The White House Today. Here’s What He Said

Donald Trump met with members of the trucking industry at the White House on Thursday.

The president — wearing an “I heart trucks” pin — sat in the driver’s seat of an 18-wheeler on the South Lawn and honked the horn before holding a health care meeting with the truckers and trucking executives.

“No one knows truckers like America knows truckers,” Trump said as he read from a sheet of paper during the meeting. “You see it every day. You see every hill, every valley, every pothole, the roads that need to be redone. Every town border to border needs to be redone. It’s true. You love America, and you love the spirit and we love your spirit and we want to thank you very much because, through day and night, in all kinds of weather, truckers are the arteries of our nation’s highways.”

“You carry anything and everything, the food that stocks our shelves, the fuel that runs our cars and the steel that builds our cities. Do you think I wrote that? That’s not bad. Save that paragraph.”

Just minutes before the vote on the proposed Republican health care bill was delayed, Trump said, “We’ll see what happens. It’s going to be a very close vote. They know it’s no good — everybody knows it’s no good. It’s all politics.”

“It’s a good deal and I think we have a good chance.”