Politico reports:
New Hampshire leaders reacted angrily Thursday to President Donald Trump’s description of their state as a “drug-infested den” in a leaked transcript of a phone call earlier this year with Mexico’s president. “Up in New Hampshire — I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den,” Trump told Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in January, according to a transcript of the call obtained by The Washington Post and published Thursday.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), who has introduced legislation, such as Carl’s Law, to combat addiction to prescription painkillers and heroin, demanded an apology from the president on Twitter. The state Democratic Party’s Twitter account tweeted a photo of a pristine coastal landscape in winter, asking whether that looked like a “drug infested den,” and it called on state Republican leaders to reply to Trump.
.@RealDonaldTrump owes NH an apology & then should follow through on his promise to Granite Staters to help end this crisis 1/2
— Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (@SenatorShaheen) August 3, 2017
It’s absolutely unacceptable for the President to be talking about NH in this way – a gross misrepresentation of NH & the epidemic 2/2
— Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (@SenatorShaheen) August 3, 2017
President @BarackObama on New Hampshire. And then his successor @realDonaldTrump… #nhpolitics pic.twitter.com/wHMlfpgzmc
— NH Democratic Party (@NHDems) August 3, 2017
The New Republican Party. #nhpolitics pic.twitter.com/VVJ1z7DhAh
— NH Democratic Party (@NHDems) August 3, 2017
If @realDonaldTrump's talking abt primary, what's he saying abt @NHGOP voters? Similar to "How stupid are the ppl of Iowa" quote #nhpolitics pic.twitter.com/5b1lQOt34o
— NH Democratic Party (@NHDems) August 3, 2017
Hey @realDonaldTrump, does this look like a "drug-infested den" to you? #nhpolitics pic.twitter.com/5kc3PoFwo9
— NH Democratic Party (@NHDems) August 3, 2017
Are @NHDems denying NH is in the middle of an opioid epidemic? NH Republicans have been working everyday to fight the crisis. #nhpolitics https://t.co/jJ6M7grtqx
— NHGOP (@NHGOP) August 3, 2017