President Donald Trump hosted members of Congress at the White House on Friday to showcase the newly renovated Rose Garden, which he referred to as the “Rose Garden Club.” The event included a prayer before dinner. After the prayer, Trump shared an anecdote about a legislative challenge involving late-night calls with the Speaker of the House.
Trump recounted, “So, I get a call from the speaker and he’d say, ‘Sir, we have 16 hard nos.’ It’s four o’clock in the morning… Four o’clock, five o’clock in the morning I call him. I said, ‘Jim, how you doing, Jim? Everything ok?'” He described how he persuaded resistant lawmakers to support his bill despite difficulties, noting, “We had about 16, 17, or 18 others, and they made life very difficult. But we got them there because we had a period where we had a majority of one. Is that right, Mike? One. We were one heart attack away from losing the House. Think of that.”
Before sharing the story, Trump addressed about 100 attendees, mostly Republican lawmakers, calling the gathering exclusive. “We call it the Rose Garden Club. And it’s a club for senators, for congresspeople and for people in Washington, and frankly, people that can bring peace and success to our country,” he said.
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