Story highlights On Thursday, a transcript published by The Washington Post showed Trump attributing his win in New Hampshire to the opioid epidemic

Earlier this week, a White House commission recommended the President declare a national public health emergency

Washington (CNN) New Hampshire's governor said Friday that Donald Trump's comment calling the state a "drug-infested den" was an "aspersion upon the entire state."

"We know the President has the tendency to speak in hyperbole and tweet things out and all that stuff, but you can't go out and just cast this misconception, aspersion upon the entire state," Gov. Chris Sununu told WMUR

On Thursday , a transcript of a phone call between Trump Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in which Trump attributed his win in New Hampshire to the opioid epidemic was published by The Washington Post.

"I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den," Trump said, according to the transcript from January 27.

Earlier this week, the White House commission dedicated to analyzing the opioid crisis in the United States recommended the President declare a national public health emergency over the epidemic.

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