President Donald Trump thinks his chief of staff could run a car company one day.
According to a White House pool report, Trump was speaking to a roundtable of auto executives when he gestured to Priebus, who has spent his life in politics and was the chairman of the Republican National Committee before he joined the Trump administration, and said he could make it in business.
BuzzFeed White House correspondent Adrian Carrasquillo reported: “Trump pointed to Reince Priebus and said he may one day run a car company or maybe not. ‘He’s done a great job,’ POTUS said of his chief of staff.”
Also present at the meeting, according to pool reports, were Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R), who Trump invited to take a picture “even though you didn’t endorse me”; Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao; and United Auto Workers President Dennis Williams and Vice President Cindy Estrada.
According to pool reports, Williams told Trump that, in addition to new plants being built in America, he hoped auto workers would be UAW members. “We want the workers to rise too,” he said.
“Some things never change,” Trump reportedly responded, smiling.
