At Business Session With US Governors, Trump Tells Herbert: ‘We Don’t Want’ Mitt Romney

Feb 10, 2020, 12:36 PM

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a White House Business Session with Our Nation's Governors event at the State Dining Room of the White House February 10, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

BY KSL TV

KSLTV.com

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – When it was time for Utah Gov. Gary Herbert to ask a question during a business session at the White House, President Donald Trump had a question for him first.

“How’s Mitt Romney?” Trump asked.

“You keep him,” he added. “We don’t want him.”

The Deseret News reports Herbert was asking a question about the national debt and didn’t respond to the president’s remarks about Romney.

The Utah governor is in Washington, D.C., for the National Governors Association.

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