"Vast amounts of deposits of coal and other resources have, in a way, been taken out of your hands," Trump said at a roundtable with tribal leaders last June. "We're going to have that changed. We're going to put it back in your hands." When the media was not in the room, according to a report in Axios, the president advised tribal leaders frustrated by restrictions on drilling to ignore those rules and drill anyway.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 15, 2018 10:03 UTC