President Donald Trump held a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

He spoke with the press for roughly an hour and a half.

Trump discussed the government shutdown, the border wall, incoming Sen. Mitt Romney, the military withdrawal from Syria, former Defense Secretary James Mattis, the stock market, and more.

President Donald Trump kicked off 2019 with a wild, scattershot Cabinet meeting Wednesday that hit on a variety of topics, including funding the long-promised wall on the US-Mexico border and the similarities between US generals and Tom Cruise.

During the roughly hour-and-a-half meeting in the White House, Trump took questions from reporters after a relatively quiet holiday break.

The president weighed in on a variety of topics, including: