President Donald Trump took executive action on Thursday to create the White House Great American Recovery Initiative in order to better coordinate the country’s national response to addiction. “Many of those with me today have personally known the heartache of a loved one taken by drug or alcohol addiction,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I do, just like millions of American families.”The president’s elder brother, Fred Trump Jr,. “With this framework and treatment, recovery is not the exception, it is the expectation,” Kathryn Burgum said. At the same time, Trump has at least publicly continued to support Noem, even as Republican senators, including Sens.