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18. Trump admits he did not know what ANWR was until .......

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Mar 21, 2018, 02:59 AM

Mar 2018

............During one riff, Trump talked about how he'd lifted a ban on oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Trump told the crowd he hadn't thought the issue was "a big deal," until he got a call from a friend in the oil business after the GOP tax bill passed in December.

"Is it true that you have ANWR in the bill?'" Trump recalled the friend asking. "I said: 'I don't know. Who cares? What is that? What does that mean?' ... What's the big deal if they did put it in?'"

Trump said the friend told him that "every single president" including Ronald Reagan had tried but failed to get it.

"I said, 'You've got to be kidding, I love it now.' And after that, we fought like hell to get ANWR."

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