In town pool report #10 - Trump at Business Roundtable

Trumo walked into the room full of CEOs at 5:15 pm. He sat on stage with Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco Systems. Other CEOs sat in chairs in the room. Robbins said this was the largest attendence they've had at a Business Roundtable annual meeting.

Trump about the CEO's in the room:

"A lot of friends in the audience. A couple I don't like very much."

Robbins asked Trump about Elon Musk and his work in government.

Trump on Musk:

"He wants to see the country straighten out, and he's done a fantastic job. He's found massive fraud, abuse, waste."

"We're trying to get to a trillion dollars. He did have an ability to do something a lot of people didn't think of. He'd come in with bigger ideas. We'd say, we want you to cut down the size of your agency by 2% and we thought that was good. He came in and said 80% and I said, what the hell's going on? 80% and largely--- We had to it carefully and we had some little hiccups, not big hiccups, but we saved a tremendous amount of money into the future."

Pool ushered out of the room at 5:22 pm. Pool will be holding in the motorcade.

More quotes to come.

Brian Bennett

Senior White House Correspondent

TIME

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