SALEM -- When President Donald Trump welcomed the nation's governors to the White House on Sunday, he greeted them and "their wives," Oregon Gov. Kate Brown told the Huffington Post on Monday.

Brown, one of four female governors in the U.S., said he also included daughters in his greeting, effectively ignoring any female governors, their husbands, or any governors' sons.

It was weird, she said, but the slight is nothing new.

"I've been there before," she told the Post. "I think people forget that there are female governors in the world."

The White House has not responded to a request for comment.

Of course, Trump's greeting could have included female governors with wives. But as the campaign for Brown, who is bisexual, pointed out in a Facebook post, all four current women governors are married to men.

"Hmmm, perhaps someone should let POTUS know women can be governors," the Brown campaign wrote, adding the hashtag #FirstGentlemenArePeopleToo.

It's unclear whether the president meant to address only the male governors in the room. Trump's cabinet is overwhelmingly composed of white men, and the president has bragged about sexually assaulting women. (Trump has denied he has ever kissed or groped women without their consent.)

Other than a pronouncement by Trump that Oregon is "a really great state" as Brown was introduced, she didn't interact much with the president, she told the Post.

Brown's campaign in January asked her supporters to "resist" the Trump administration. In February, she issued an executive order strengthening Oregon's sanctuary status and asked Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum to fight Trump's travel ban.

Oregon was left off an early list of 50 priority infrastructure projects in December, before Brown was asked to submit projects for possible inclusion. Brown sent a list of possible Oregon projects later that month, and is now waiting to hear back from the White House.

-- Anna Marum

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