Some New Hampshire representatives said they are disgusted by President Donald Trump’s comments that the state is a “drug-infested den.” They are now calling on the president to deliver opioid addiction assistance he promised.

While on a phone call with Mexican President Peña Nieto in January, Trump said that he “won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den,” according to Washington Post reports published Thursday.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, New Hampshire saw the second most opioid overdose deaths in 2015 with 34.3 per 100,000 deaths caused by overdose. West Virginia saw the most with 41.5 and Kentucky was third with 29.9.

While Trump did win the New Hampshire primary with 35 percent of the vote, the state’s electoral votes went to Hillary Clinton in the general election.

Since the president’s comments came to light, several elected New Hampshire officials spoke out against the president.

Republican Gov. Chris Sununu said in a statement that he was disappointed by the president’s mischaracterization of the epidemic. He added that Trump’s incorrect statement ignores all of the great things the state has to offer.

Londonderry state Rep. Al Baldasaro tweeted his support for Donald Trump and his statement to the Mexican president. The Republican wrote he had “to disagree” with Sununu on this one and New Hampshire “had major drug problem before (Trump’s) election, many overdoses. Drug task force on it.”

Baldasaro instead pointed the finger at Congress, saying the issue was not what Trump may or may not be doing, but what the Legislature is doing because funding comes from them.

“Everyone just wants to pass the buck,” he said. “Donald Trump is right. We had a cesspool of drugs. But, I honestly think our drug enforcement program is working.”

U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-Rochester) said Trump is wrong about the Granite State and has failed to help fight the opioid epidemic.

“Stop attacking health care and make (the) investments you promised,” she wrote on Twitter.

U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan called the comments “disgusting” and said the president had actually proposed policies that would set back the state’s efforts to combat the drug crisis.

U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster (D-Hopkinton) echoed Hassan’s sentiments, calling the comments “appalling.”

“Stop spitting hateful rhetoric and instead focus on supporting hardworking people on the frontlines of the opioid epidemic,” she wrote on Twitter.

U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen called on Trump to apologize.

“It’s absolutely unacceptable for the President to be talking about NH in this way – a gross misrepresentation of NH & the epidemic,” she wrote on Twitter.

A White House spokesperson said Thursday afternoon that the president was referring to the fact that the opioid epidemic has caused many families to lose relatives, and that Trump is working to combat the epidemic through securing the borders and forming the drug addiction commission.

DeAngelis writes for the North Andover, Massachusetts Eagle Tribune.