As Romney continued to listen to Trump, the then-president told him that he had given Utah "two million square miles of land," according to the book. AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, FileRomney, aware that Trump had mixed up square miles and acres, didn't say anything to the then-president, but noted with some lightheartedness that "two millions square miles would be, like, half the country." AdvertisementAdvertisementThe entire state of Utah, the 13th-largest state by area in the United States, is roughly 85,000 square miles. "I know the difference between acres and square miles," he volunteered during the conversation, according to the book. "This was square miles."

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