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President Trump - April 30th, Hour 3
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All right.
Thank you, Scott Shannon.
And glad you're with us.
News Roundup Information Overload Hour.
Well, it's about an hour later than they said.
President Trump now at the White House meeting with business leaders.
Let's go to the rating the most successful 100 days of any administration in American history.
We're thrilled to welcome to the White House dozens of the world top leaders of all kinds, but in particular business leaders, and since the election, the companies represented in this room have collectively announced more than two trillion dollars in new investments, and uh we have a total of close to eight trillion dollars all told.
And uh there's never been anything like that in this country.
We've never had anything close.
I would say if you looked at the last administration, probably for four years they did maybe less than one, and we've done almost eight.
I would say we'll be above eight in a period of uh two months.
So something happened.
I think two things, two things happened.
November 5th happened, and November 5th gave you tariffs, intelligently used tariffs and various other forms of incentive.
But uh it's it's it's really amazing.
There's never been, I don't think there's ever been anything like this anywhere in the world.
Together we're going to bring back the most beautiful words I always say, made in the USA, the most beautiful words.
We're gonna have made in the USA like we haven't had before in a long time.
In addition to the business leaders whose companies I will mention in just a moment, uh we have some great people, great senators, Marsha, Marsha, where are you?
Where are you, Martha?
Martha, Marsha, thank you very much.
Marsha Blackburn, Bill Cassidy, Bill, thank you, Bill.
Ashley Moody, Ashley, thank you.
And John Houston.
John, thank you very much.
And uh representatives Byron Donalds, Buddy Carter, Rob Whitman, Mark Alford, Mike Rogers, Richard Hudson, and Abe Homiday.
Thank you all very much.
We have Mike Kehoe, Governors, Jim Pillen, Kevin Stitt, Mike Dunlavey, along with numerous other members of my cabinet, and I want to thank you all for being here.
How come my cabinet has such good locations?
You should have given them up to the business leaders.
We want their money, you know.
They have very good locations.
I'm not surprised.
Uh, one hundred days ago this week, we inherited the wreckage of four years of economic disaster under the previous administration.
It was an economic disaster.
It was a disaster at the border, like nobody had ever seen before.
And uh, you probably see we've closed up the border 99.999%.
meaning three people got in.
Three.
As opposed to hundreds of thousands of people coming in on a monthly basis, millions of people, actually.
The periods where we had millions and millions of people pouring in on a monthly basis.
We had three people.
They buried companies in crippling regulations, wage war in American energy, pushed massive tax hikes, and gave us the worst inflation in the history of our country.
In Biden's final year, the United States had the worst trade deficit ever recorded, and we lost 106,000 manufacturing jobs.
Other than that, he's done a fantastic job.
But now all that is changing and all that's changing very fast because we finally have the president who wants to put our country first.
You have uh president who believes in America first.
In the first quarter GDP numbers just out today.
Core GDP, now we're removing distortions from imports, inventories, and government spending was up plus three percent.
But this is Biden's economy because we took over on January 20th, and I think you have to get us a little bit of time to uh get moving, but this is the Biden economy.
But we still had a uh and we've had a lot of things happen since November 5th that helped this economy because it was indicating a strong private sector growth, and it was only it only started after November 5th.
The private sector started really heating up after the election, even though I wasn't there.
Uh people knew what we were going to be doing, and the private sector growth was actually very good.
Very importantly, gross domestic investment was up and incredible, 22 percent, which they had never seen before.
Every new investment, every new factory and every new job created is a sign of strength in American economy, and a declaration of confidence in America's future.
We really do.
We've never seen anything like this.
Even Samsung, which whose name isn't mentioned here, but I heard that they announced this morning that they're going to be building a very big uh uh plant because they want to be able to beat the tariffs.
That's the only way to beat them.
The entire Trump economic agenda is about making it easier to do business in America, to create jobs in America, to hire American workers and to build your factories here in America, not in China or any other country.
And uh we're dealing with many, many countries right now, I will say, and uh I think I can say for Scott and for Howard and for some of the uh people that are dealing, there are too many to handle.
I mean, to be honest with you, I'd have to hire about I'd love to hire some of the people running these companies.
Boy, would you do?
Would you do a good job?
I could have Jensen negotiate, he'd blow my people away, wouldn't you?
I think even Howard, even Howard would say that.
Howard would say we'll take them.
He'd blow them away with big deals.
One one deal would be the end.
That would be it.
But we've terminated the Green New Scam.
It was a scam, and halted tens of billions of dollars of money, wasteful deficit spending.
It was like throwing money right out the window.
And in the coming weeks, we'll pass the largest tax cuts in American history.
And I think even more so we'll uh be doing things for business like uh you've never seen before.
You saw it in a little smaller version uh at the beginning of our last term.
You know, we had the most successful four years that any president has ever had.
The stock market was up 88 percent.
The uh other markets were up almost a hundred percent, and that's despite COVID and all the crazy things happening.
But we had uh a tremendous, we had a tremendous four years.
We've given credit for that actually.
But our big beautiful bill, as I call it, our big, beautiful bill.
We may name it that actually, will include 100 percent expensing retroactive to January 20th.
So that's uh all the way back to just about the beginning of the year.
So expensing one year, you take a deduction, one year, so you can build your factories right now, essentially almost tax-free if you think about it.
Uh nobody's ever been given that.
And we're gonna make that expensing for a four-year period at a full 100 percent.
So last time we made it one year, and you had uh deductions you do from from 100 percent to eighty to sixty to forty to twenty to Zippo.
And now what we're gonna do is we're gonna keep it at that level, and we're gonna have it for four years.
So uh I believe that was one of the reasons that we had such unbelievable growth.
Also, we allowed you to bring money back from outside of the country.
It was impossible.
You had to have 15 different law firms representing you was so complicated.
And worse was that the tax rate was 65 percent.
I lowered the rate substantially, but still a lot.
You know, we shouldn't take your money just to hold you hostage, right?
So we lowered it to a reasonable amount, and we took in trillions of dollars, came back.
Apple brought in a tremendous amount of money.
A lot of the companies here brought in a lot of money, and the businesses represented today clearly understand that if you build your factory in the United States, your tariff rate is zero-zero.
And you have other advantages too, and uh not the least of which is what I just said, having to do with the bill.
Now we have to get that bill approved.
So call your local representative, please, and make sure that we get it approved, because I don't want to talk too early, but we're doing well with the Republican Congress.
We have the Senate is doing great and the House is doing great.
Uh John Thune has been spectacular.
Mike Johnson has been speaker has been spectacular.
Uh Marcia, you're in there working very hard and doing well.
What do you think?
Are we going to get it passed?
We have to.
We don't get it passed, I'm blaming you.
We have to.
We have to get it passed.
We will.
I think we will.
But uh I don't think we'll have any Democrat votes.
If we don't get it passed, what would happen is your taxes go up 68 percent.
Think of that.
And we may not get one vote because they just vote against it's Trump derangement syndrome, or maybe it's just they hate Republicans or they hate what we're doing because they've lost their confidence.
They've totally lost their confidence.
They don't know what the hell is going on.
And uh we are gonna get it done.
It's probably gonna be fully Republican.
Fortunately, we have the House, we have the Senate.
And uh we may or may not have a couple of grand standards, I don't know.
But if we do, it would be good if you could work on anybody.
I mean, if I were a Democrat, I'd be voting for it a hundred percent.
Uh, because I think it's very dangerous politically not to vote for.
Think of it, your taxes go up almost sixty-eight percent.
So, but it looks like we're in good shape, I think.
And uh hopefully we'll we'll get it approved.
It'll be the biggest bill ever approved in the history of our country, and it'll be the biggest tax cut ever approved in the history of our country.
And in addition to that, uh regulations which I'm doing in and outside of the bill will be uh as big or bigger than we did last time.
We have the record for regulation cuts in the four years.
We cut four times higher than any other president in a four-year period.
And uh, we're talking about uh eight uh eight years and two-term presidents.
We uh were four times higher than any other president in terms of regulation cuts.
And I went to uh friend of mine who happens to be in the room, one of the biggest business leaders, I won't mention him because I don't know, maybe he'll like it, maybe one.
I said to him, uh, so have you had your choice between the big tax cut last time and the big regulation cuts, which were the biggest again, the biggest we've ever done.
I would have said taxes, but he would have said regulation.
I said, which was uh which was more important to you?
And he said, if I could only have one, yeah.
If you could only have one, he said, most important would have been regulation.
The regulation was more important than the tax cut.
And I mean we cut your taxes from almost 40 percent down to 21 percent.
Now we're bringing your taxes down from 21 percent to fifteen percent.
If you build your product, make your product in the USA.
So if you make it in the USA, those chips, those beautiful chips will make those suckers in the USA, and you're gonna be all the way down to uh fifteen percent.
And I think it's uh I think it's there's never been anything like it.
So now we're at the lowest scale for a a large country, by far the lowest scale.
Uh pro-jobs, pro-American economic policies are major reason that businesses around the World have announced five trillion dollars of investment since November 5th, and now we think it's up to plus uh plus eight trillion, and they're really coming in.
They're really coming in fast.
Some of them don't bother calling us.
Some of them don't even want meetings.
They don't want, they just start their their plants and start their factories.
I want to express my tremendous appreciation to the business leaders here.
You are really an amazing group.
Uh this is a who's who.
Uh I don't want to say, you know, there's an expression if something ever went off, the entire industry would be wiped out, but I won't say that.
I want to think very positively, and that could never happen here, could it?
But I want to congratulate you all on your incredible uh for stations along the Sean Hannity Show Network.
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President Trump with business leaders outlining his economic agenda, including reconciliation, which will be the largest tax cut in the history of the country.
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Accomplishments.
You've been amazing.
You're the biggest and the best.
So I'd like to introduce some of you, uh, President and CE, CEO of Hayunde, Jose Munaz.
Jose, thank you very much.
Commandastic.
Jose is investing 21 billion, including 5.8 billion for a new steel plant in Louisiana, which is a beauty.
I saw a picture of it, which is going to create at least 1,500 jobs just to plant alone.
Thank you very much, Jose.
Beautiful.
Chairman and CEO of Global Shipping Giant CMA, CGM, Rodolph Sede.
Thank you, Rodolph.
Thank you very much.
Fantastic.
Investing $20 billion in creating $10,000 new jobs at least.
Thank you very much.
That's fantastic.
You'll be very happy.
President and CEO of Toyota North America, Ted Ogawa, investing $88 billion.
Where's Ted?
That's fantastic.
Thank you, Ted.
That's fantastic.
Ted's investing $88 million for car production at its West Virginia factory, which is a beauty.
I've seen it actually.
Congratulations.
Thank you very much for being here, Ted.
Co-founder and CEO of Andrew, Brian Schimff.
Brian, thank you, Brian.
He's investing $1 billion for a new manufacturing facility in Ohio and display Next to me is their uh $125-pound Roadrunner drone.
Where is that little sucker?
Where is it?
Where's his at?
Well, whoa.
That's a that's a nasty looking thing.
That's a nasty.
I look up there when I'm having dinner outside.
I used to look up to see the moon.
Isn't it beautiful?
Now you see the moon, but you see drones all over the place.
And I say, let's get the hell out of here.
That's uh that's a good one, isn't it?
Huh?
I can see it.
CEO of Worldwide Amazon stores, Doug Harrington.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Doug, very much.
Investing four billion dollars uh this year alone, and they I know they said they're gonna be investing a lot over the next two years.
We appreciate it very much.
Thank you, and say hello to everybody.
CEO of Venture Global, Mike Sable.
Mike, thank you very much, Mike.
Investing $18 billion in liquefied natural gas expansion in Louisiana.
That's gonna work out good.
Thank you very much.
President and CEO of Siemens USA, big company.
Barbara Humpton.
Thank you, Barbara.
Thank you very much.
Investing $285 million.
Executive Global Chairman of Pratt Industries, friend of mine, Anthony Pratt.
He's investing five billion dollars.
Thank you.
Thank you, Anthony.
I read a report today's the richest man in Australia, but who the hell knows?
Do you think you're the richest man in Australia?
Close.
I don't like to put you in the spot like that, Anthony, but that's pretty good.
Thank you very much.
That's great.
Five billion dollars.
Founder and CEO Chiobani, Ham Day Oleaka.
Where are you?
Thank you very much.
Investing 1.2 billion.
Thank you very much.
CEO of Bell Brands USA, Yvonne Girard.
Yvonne, thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
350 million dollars.
President of Schneider Electric North America, Amher Paul Hammer, thank you very much.
Investing 700 million for energy infrastructure and its largest investment in its 135 year history.
Chairman and CEO of Johnson Johnson.
Oh, I know I've heard of that company, huh?
My hair looks so beautiful because of your product.
Joaquin Duato, $55 billion manufacturing plant and research and development and technology.
Thank you very much.
$55 billion.
That's a lot.
But you got to catch up with Apple and some of the others.
We got to get you to make a little you one of the few companies that could do that, right?
Chair and CEO of Eli Lilly, a great guy.
Every time I talk to him about drug prices, he uh he sweet talks me.
He tells me about the middleman, the middleman, keeps telling me about the middleman.
By the time by the time I leave the meetings, I was telling my people.
I think I say, gee, he's giving us a great bargain.
You know, so David, you have done some job.
David Ricks.
You have done some job.
I'll see you later, too.
27 billion dollars, doubling its manufacturing investment in the U.S., and he's got a very hot topic right now going.
Yeah, it's this stuff is doing really well, isn't it?
Really hot company.
Thank you very much, David.
CEO of Novartis, Voss Nara Simon, and that's 23 billion dollars.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Voss.
CEO of Genitech, Ashley Mugargi.
50 billion.
Whoa, that's a lot of money.
Good.
Thank you, Ashley.
That's a big one.
CEO of Ab V Rob Michael, 10 billion dollars.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Good company.
President, CEO of Thermo Fisher, Mark Casper, $2 billion.
Thank you, Mark, very much.
Chairman and CEO of Merck, great company.
Rob Davis, $9 billion.
Thank you very much, Rob.
Chairman and CEO of Abbott.
Robert Ford, $500 million.
Thank you, Robert.
Chairman and CEO of a company called IBM.
Arvind, where are you?
Where are you?
Thank you very much.
That's fantastic.
$150 billion.
That's all.
That's great.
Thank you very much.
You've done a great job.
You've done a great job with that company, too, I'll tell you.
Chairman and CEO of GE Aerospace, Larry Kulp.
Larry, thank you very much, Larry.
And Larry's investing one billion in manufacturing across 16 states, and with us as we have the model of their F uh 110 engine, which I hear is like I must tell you, I hear it's the hottest engine there is.
You've got a you got a gold mine over there, Larry, which powers our nation's finest fighter jets and other jets.
And your big engine is really something that I hear is uh beyond anything that has been produced yet.
So good luck with it.
And Larry, I think we're gonna ask you to say a few words, actually.
So come on up.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. President.
It's an honor to be here representing all of my colleagues at GE Aerospace.
We are today 125 years old, but we are inventing the future of flight.
Today we power three quarters of the world's commercial airlines and nearly two-thirds of the U.S. military combat jets and helicopters.
So what you see here with the F-110 powers 70 percent of the newest Air Force F-15s in the F-16s.
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that will be underwing on the F-15EX Eagle II that the Michigan Air National Guard will soon be flying.
We're excited about what's happening in our company.
We're investing a billion dollars.
This year, as the president said, across 16 states, not only in our manufacturing footprint, but with so many of the small and mid-sized businesses that constitute our supply chain.
There's a lot happening.
We're excited about it.
Mr. President, thank you for what you're doing, not only to revitalize U.S. manufacturing, but helping ensure that the U.S. aerospace industry, one of our biggest net exporters, continues to lead the world in innovation.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Great job.
And he has done a really great job.
You were you took over a slightly troubled company, and now you've made it out as a pistol.
So that's really an amazing job you've done in a short period of time.
Also with us is chairman and CEO of SoftBank Masa.
Where's Massa?
Massa, come on up here, Master.
Moss has pledged 200 billion dollars plus another 500 billion dollars with Oracle and OpenAI for a total of 700 billion.
Thank you, Masters.
might I please.
Thank you.
Well, first time of uh Trump's uh administration, we made uh announcement, commitment.
50 billion dollars.
We deliver 70 billion dollars uh over four years, uh last time.
This time, uh I tried to commit 100 billion dollars, and President Trump said, Oh, Masa, go for more.
So we did the 200 billion dollar commitment, and then right after that, uh we Softbank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX together.
We announced 500 billion dollars investment.
This is the largest investment for infrastructure in the United States.
Uh investment.
And I think this is more than the scale.
This the importance is this is the largest infrastructure for the AI, which is the future of mankind, I believe.
It's gonna change every industry, every way of how our mankind mankind's lifestyle of the future.
I am committed.
U.S. is the center of innovation.
U.S. must continue the leadership of AI.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, Marcia.
Been a friend of mine for a long time.
We gotta say you are really something.
It's great.
We appreciate it too.
Great spirit, great genius.
Tim Cook from Apple uh is pledging, not only pledging, is committed to 500 billion dollars.
They're gonna build uh uh plants all over the country, seven or eight different states they've already started.
And so I want to thank Tim.
That's such a big investment for somebody that you know had them pretty much in one location, as you know.
Now uh they're coming into the United States, I believe, because of the spirit and the tariffs and the incentives.
So that's Apple for 500 billion dollars.
And one of the most brilliant men that you'll ever meet, the man that's done in a short period of time something that is uh incredible, he's the founder, CEO, and president of Nvidia.
Jensen Wong, he's producing up to 500 billion over the next four years to manufacture the most powerful AI chips entirely in the USA for the first time ever.
Uh Jensen, would you come up and say a few words?
This is a smart cookie.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. President.
That's a great honor to be here.
Uh NVIDIA reinvented computing for the first time after sixty years.
In fact, uh Erwin at uh IBM knows quite well that the computer has largely been the same since the 60s.
The IBM System 360 described really quite perfectly the computer that we use today.
Central processing units, operating systems, the separation of hardware and software, IO subsystems, multitasking.
All of the words that we use to describe computers today were really invented in 1964, the year after my birth.
Well, after all this time, we've reinvented computers again.
This is what a a processor looks like.
It's on the right right there.
People say it's a GPU.
That GP, that's one GPU unit, and it's uh 70 pounds, 60,000 parts, uh, 10,000 watts.
Uh in order to manufacture it requires probably a couple of hundred companies in the supply chain.
It is so heavy uh that it requires robotics to do, it's so precise.
And in just to test a supercomputer requires a supercomputer.
And we're gonna build uh NVIDIA's technology, the next generation of that, uh all here in the United States without without the president's leadership, his policies, his support, and very importantly, his strong encouragement.
And I mean a strong encouragement.
I uh frankly, frankly, uh manufacturing in the United States uh wouldn't have accelerated to this pace.
Uh manufacturing, manufacturing isn't about low-cost labor anymore.
Manufacturing is about technology.
And most of the factories that uh build these systems today are the most advanced factories in the future.
And we're gonna use artificial intelligence and robotics and omniverse digital twin technology to make it possible for us to create the factories of the future.
And we ought to build it, we ought to build it right here.
The the really amazing thing is that this computer is the engine of a whole new industry.
And this new industry is called artificial intelligence.
And this new industry is a manufacturing industry in itself.
That's a factory machine.
Just as several hundred years ago, the dynamo was invented, uh, Water would come in and electricity would come out.
Now electricity goes into this machine, and incredible tokens come out, artificial intelligence.
In order for this industry to thrive, we need to build these systems, of course, but we also need a progressive growth and industry oriented energy policy, which this president has really put his weight behind.
I really appreciate that.
Without energy, we can't possibly have new growth industries.
And we now have the backing of the administration, the backing of President Trump to support uh the creation of a whole new industry.
This industry is going to enable a whole bunch of other industries.
What we now call the AI infrastructure is going to revolutionize every industry that we know.
All of the many CEOs in the room today are great partners of ours for that reason.
We're working on artificial intelligence for many industries, from health care to drug discovery to life science to well, life sciences, financial services, education, so many different industries.
And that's going to be possible because we have the fundamental infrastructure here in the United States.
And so I want to thank you, sir, for everything that you've done and the strong encouragement and the great policies that make it possible for us.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
Another brilliant man.
You know, we have uh brilliant people here.
And uh we like brilliant people, actually.
But we have a lot of brilliant people in this group, and it's an honor to be with you.
Past 100 days had been fighting to reclaim our jobs and bring our country back to a level that it's never seen before, and uh again renew the American dream, which is what we're doing.
We have tremendous spirit.
Uh I don't know if you've heard, but uh it's become really quite a story.
I see Pete Street over here, Secretary of Defense.
We have uh the largest number of uh new enlistees or people enlisting in the military forces that we've ever had.
And if you remember six months ago, we couldn't get anybody to sign up.
That's a big turn in a very short period of time.
And uh November 5th had a lot to do with that, and uh our Secretary of Defense and a lot of the people that you see sitting here really had a lot to do with that.
There's great spirit.
I can say that also with the police forces throughout the country.
We're having a hard time filling them up.
It's a dangerous job, but uh now we have waiting lists at almost every place, and that's an amazing accomplishment when you think it's uh amazing.
Thank you.
And when I first came here, you remember uh just three months ago.
Uh I came in and they started screaming.
The fake news was screaming, they were going crazy about eggs.
I don't know about eggs.
What's with eggs tell me?
They said their cost is up 50 percent, and you won't have them for Easter.
I said, Well, I'll have to get on to it, but this isn't my problem, this is Biden's problem.
I've only been here for four days.
They're screaming at me about eggs like it was my fault.
I just got here, didn't know anything about it.
We got it taken care of, and eggs dropped 87 percent in the last short period of time, and everybody had uh eggs for Easter.
In fact, we had a big Easter egg hunt on the lawns.
We had 44,000, 48,000 people actually came.
And we had a lot of eggs.
I don't know how many, but there were a lot, but we didn't use plastic.
They said, could you use plastic eggs?
This is in early January, and I see our Secretary of Agriculture is here.
Would you stand up?
You did a great job.
You got me out of a lot of trouble.
Brooke Rollins.
She got me out of a lot because they were trying to blame me for eggs, and I didn't know anything about it yet.
Explain it to me.
But we had uh plenty of eggs, Brooke, right, for Easter.
There was no uh no dearth.
And uh we have another man in the audience who is maybe the most important man in the room because he's the head of the environmental protection agency, meaning he's the one that approves all your plants.
And uh When Jensen and some of the others came in about uh numerous of the others, especially having to do with AI, they came in, uh, I learned a lot.
Uh number one, I learned we need double the electricity that we have right now for the whole country, and really more than that, they've been two times would be even better.
It was like unlimited thirst for electricity.
And uh at first I said, you know, how's that possible?
But that's whatever it is, it's possible.
That machine that you say you can barely lift is uh I guess it sucks up a lot of a lot of energy.
But we uh we need more than double what we have right now.
So you take all of the energy, even the energy in this beautiful, incredible, but is this the greatest.
I mean, no matter I don't care where you come from with your fifty billion dollar plant, the White House is the White House, right?
You gotta see in the Oval Office.
If you want to take a trip down to the Oval Office, any of you, you come down with me, I'll show you a beautiful office.
It'll blow your beautiful offices away.
They'll stop it, they'll say for a lot of other reasons, but it is it's a beautiful place.
And if you want to, I'm serious, you can do that.
But uh I told Jensen, I told Tim, I told uh everybody that's building these very big incredible plants, really plants of the future.
They were talking about hooking into the grid.
I said, Well, you know, the grid is old, and you it's subject to mishap.
Uh things can happen, including storms and much worse than storms.
And if you want, I'll uh let you build your own utility plant, your own electric plant along with your building.
You can build it inside of the plant, or you can build it outside of the plant.
And I went to Lee Zeldon right here, and I said, uh, Lee, we got to get fast approvals for these people.
You know, they're gonna do the best job, they're gonna have the best the best engineers, the best everything would like to have them build their electric for them.
They don't have to go outside.
You become a utility, you become uh a great uh producer of electric.
And if you have any extra, you put it back into the grid if you want, or you sell it back in.
But uh you're gonna be able to build so this way we don't have to worry about do we have enough?
Because if you look at California, they have brownouts, blackouts, and everything else.
They don't know what the hell they're doing.
Governor doesn't have a clue.
But uh the last thing you want to do is be hooking up to the California grid so that we can go in and you'll say, gee, we have to close down the factory for a couple of days.
We have a little brownout going on.
So you're gonna be able to build your own uh your own plant and produce as much electric as your beautiful hearts desire.
And uh that'll be something that nobody's done before, and we're gonna ask Lee to get those approved very quickly, and uh he'll get it approved before you can even imagine.
He's uh he's great.
He's great.
He knows the difference.
You know, you can take years to get those approved.
I would say previous to us, it would be years and years, or you could take weeks to get them approved, and it'll be just as good.
But they don't play games and they're gonna get it done and they'll get it done very quickly, so that's gonna be a big help because you can have unlimited energy, unlimited electricity, and I think it's gonna really we want to stay number one.
We we're number one right now by a lot.
I will say this if I didn't get elected, I would say get out of the AI business fast.
Get out of all business fast, probably, maybe get out of the country fast, because this country was heading in the wrong direction, but now it's heading in the right direction.
I think it's I think it's the most consequential hundred days in the history of our country in certain ways.
Uh we had a an editorial for some from a group that normally wouldn't give good editorials to people like me.
And they said he's the most consequential president because of what he's doing with all of these policies that you're reading about, long beyond the electricity and the plants, uh having to do with many other things like secure borders and uh all of the many, many things I could I could go down and name them.
We're gonna we're gonna be getting tremendous uh amounts of uh drug and pharmaceutical companies gonna be pouring into the country.
They're gonna have to.
They're gonna have to, and we're gonna give them a lot of time to do it, but after that it's gonna be a tariff wall put up, and uh they won't be happy about it, but they'll be happy if they start building right now.
Uh right now it's gonna be built, and after a certain period of time it's gonna get tougher, tougher, tougher, and then it's gonna be real hard to do business in this country.
So for the pharmaceutical companies, chip companies, a lot of a lot of different companies, uh we're were all set to really grow.
Groceries uh are down.
The grocery prices are down.
Gasoline prices are down.
We had uh some gasoline selling for one dollar and ninety-eight cents a gallon just recently in three different uh states over the last two days.
It was at four dollars, and it was higher than that in some places over five dollars.
We have it way down.
Energy prices are down all over the country.
Mortgage rates are actually down slightly, even though I have a guy in the Fed that I'm not a huge fan of, but that's all right.
These are minor details.
Don't tell them I said that, please.
As the cameras rock and roll back there.
No, I'm just I mean, you should reduce the energy, he should reduce interest rates.
I think I understand interest a lot better than him because I've had a really use interest rates.
But uh we should have interest rates go down, it would be positive, but it's uh not gonna matter that much because uh ultimately what we're creating has much more to do with other things than it does just pure interest rates, but it it would be nice for people wanting to buy homes and things.
Uh the prescription drug prices just saw the largest monthly decline ever recorded.
So, David, I'm having a little bit of an impact, at least on you as I just browbeat.
I browbeat this guy, he's got the nice, he looks like he's 25 years old.
He has this massive company, Eli Lilly, and uh it has no impact on him whatsoever.
But I just see this number just came out, it's the largest monthly decline ever recorded.
Yeah, but it's probably about two percent.
You know, they did that to make me feel a little bit better.
But I appreciate it.
We have achieved the lowest number of illegal border crossings in U.S. history, and we're at a level that nobody thought we could get to in two years, let alone a couple of months.
And I think Christine Ohm is here someplace, whereas Christie is here.
Stand up, Krista.
And Tom Homan.
And I see uh Linda, stand up, Linda.
You're doing so good education.
We're bringing education back to the States.
Word belongs.
And uh she's been incredible.
She's uh very upset with Harvard.
They have 53 billion dollars in a fund, and yet they want more grants, and it looks like we're not gonna be giving them any more grants, right, Linda?
And uh, you know, a grant is at our discretion, and they're they're really not behaving well, so it's too bad.
But our our country is roaring like never before, nobody's ever really seen anything like this.
And again, the big thing is whether it's eight trillion or even more than that, uh, by the end of the year it could be a number that would be uh I think it's already there's never been anything like it, but uh this is in a period of a couple of months.
Uh I think by the end of the year the numbers will be just uh staggering.
It's really it's really gonna be something very special, and I'm very honored to be with you.
And I'd ask if anybody has any questions, please.
You uh this is your time.
This is your time.
You'll be live on television, all the fake news back there.
Uh now that that'll keep them down, right?
That's the way to keep them down, unless they're bad people, in which case, unless they want to make some news.
Uh, would anybody have any questions?
Anybody?
Business leaders, you want to know anything about depreciation?
No.
I love it.
We've done such a good job.
We don't have to take.
Would, Howard, would you like to say a couple of words, please?
Thank you.
The president talks about eight trillion dollars coming into America.
And there's only one reason it's coming in.
It's because he's finally set an industrial policy for the United States of America.
We are the greatest economy in the world.
We finally have a president who understands that we need to re-industrialize, we need to be made in America, made in the USA, and uh you feel it.
You feel it with these leaders, you feel it across all your peers.
Everyone feels it.
It's coming back to America, and uh, we are gonna be rocking.
So thank you, sir.
Great job.
So thank you very much, everybody.
And for the business leaders, if any of you would like to come down to the Oval and say hello if you've never seen it.
If you have seen it, just go home and enjoy your lives, count your money.
But if you'd like to come down, I'm heading down there now.
And again, thank you very much, everybody.
Pam, you're doing a fantastic job.
You're doing a fantastic job.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, everybody.
Thank you.
All right, President Trump with business leaders uh at the White House.
And uh, you know, the one thing that has not been highlighted by anybody in the state-run legacy media mob is just how much money and committed investment and manufacturing for this country uh has been made.
The president announcing a lot of it and having a lot of those business leaders in the uh in the at the White House today, and uh I think it's just good for America.
Um anyway, uh let's get back to our phones because Wayne in Tennessee wants to agree with Linda.
I've been waiting for this call forever.
What's up, Wayne?
Thanks for your patience.
Sean, everything that you're saying is dead on, but Linda, it's all about you right now because I was driving home.
Oh my god, you're such a suck up.
You know what?
Why are you sucking up?
I'm not sure Sean, I'm not checking up.
I just gotta say, I come from New Jersey.
I haven't been there in years, but we're going back to Florida.
Because we're correcting what we did.
But Linda, I was driving home, and I heard you talking about stuff with your New York accent, and all of a sudden you went tough nuggies.
And I thought I was gonna lose control of the car.
I haven't heard that since I was high school.
You know, my problem is you're not gonna be.
You know why?
Because our mindset is from high school.
No, it's because I'm trying not to curse on the Sean.
It's a family friendly program, sir.
A family friendly program.
Yes.
Family, friendly.
Friendly program.
And you, you know, and even though I've been in a New Jersey for a long time, I still say coffee.
It's the way it should be, Wayne, all right.
And then everybody you meet when you're down in Florida says, where in New York are you from?
Exactly.
They know exactly where you're from.
Well, the Northeast.
I love New Yorkers that think that they're not from New York.
It's funny.
It is funny.
Very, very funny.
Like you.
Uh oh, I'm very funny.
Um, you're from New York, and you try to deny it.
That's what it is.
I don't deny it.
I mean, I'm just um I escaped from New York, but I but five years in Rhode Island, five years in California, two years in Alabama, four years in Georgia, now two years of full time in Florida.
I mean, I am out of New York.
I chose to leave, and the best decision I ever made was getting out of there the first time and the second time.
Listen, just like the warm scroll in a young man and he can't turn into a woman, the New York was born into you all your life, and you're gonna be in the worker for the rest.
Oh my god, it's so nice.
I exercised it.
It's done.
It's like a demon gone.
And that's it for today.
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