President Donald Trump suggested during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday that he wants to “drive housing prices up” in an effort to keep current U.S. homeowners “wealthy.”Trump said that “existing housing people that own their homes, we’re going to keep them wealthy, adding “we’re going to keep those prices up,” NBC News reported. “There’s so much talk about, ‘Oh, we’re going to drive housing prices down.’ I don’t want to drive housing prices down,” the president continued. “I want to drive housing prices up for people that own their homes, and they can be assured, that’s what’s going to happen.”The White House did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. “Those interest rates are coming down,” the president said during the cabinet meeting, NBC News reported. “And with a proper, intelligent person at the Fed, that person will be able to work with us to get interest rates, and that covers all of the sins.