President Donald Trump says he is dedicated to helping the shrinking Great Salt Lake.
First in a post on Truth Social (Trump’s own social media platform) and later Saturday at the National Governors Association dinner, the president said he is working with Utah’s “very caring” Governor Spencer Cox on the issue.
“We’re going to save the Great Salt Lake, you know that, right? We’ve got a problem,” Trump said from the podium. “[Cox] came in to see me today... He said, ‘We’re losing water rapidly, rapidly, and it’s getting smaller, smaller, drier, drier.’ You tell those people we’re going to work on it really hard. We’re going to save it. We’re not gonna let that go. That’s what I call a real environmental problem.”
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