to listen to him. he was on c-span 1. that's a big upgrade, right? >> but i've read about it in the history books. i've seen the c-span footage. >> if it's a really good idea, present it in public view on c-span. >> every hill? time i turined in on tick tock or c-span or youtube or anything there were tense if not hundreds of thousands of people watching. >> i went home after the speech and i turned on c-span. >> i was on c-span just this week. >> to the american people, now is the time to tune in to c-span. >> they had something $2.50 a gallon i saw on television a little while ago in between my watching my great friends on c-span. >> c-span is televising this right now live so we're not just speaking to los angeles, we're speaking to the churn.

[applause] -- country. [applause] president trump: well, thank you very much. please, sit down. please, thank you. we have a lot of great political leaders and the biggest political leaders around i guess you could say but by far much bigger or the business leaders. they're not even close. i say they're my friends, you have the biggest business leaders in the worlds. we're celebrating the most successful 100 days of any administration in american history. we're thrilled to welcome to the white house 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 $2 trillion in new investments and we have a total of close to $8 trillion all told and 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 two months. so something happened. [applause] i think two things happened. november 5 happened. and november 5 gave you tariffs. intelligently used tariffs and various other forms of incentive but it's really amazing. 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, made in the u.s.a. like we haven't had before in a long time. in addition to the business leaders whose companies i will mention this just a moment, we have some great people. great senators, marsha, where

are you? martha? marsha, thank you very much. marsha blackburn, bill cassidy. bill, thank you. ashley moody. ashley, thank you. and john, thank you very much. and representatives byron donald. buddy carter. ron when it man, mark alford. mike rogers, richard hudson and abe homiday. thank you all very much. [applause] we have mike kehoe, governors jim pellan. kevin sit, mike dunleavy along with other numerous members of my cabinet and i want to thank you all for being here. how come my cabinet has such good locations? we usually give them up to the business leaders. we want their money. they have their very good locations, i'm not surprised.

100 years ago this week we inherited four disaster under the previous administration. it was an economic disaster. it was a disaster at the border like nobody had ever seen before. you probably have seen we have closed up the border 99.99%, meaning free people got in. three. -- three people got in. three. [applause] as opposed to hundreds of thousands of people coming in on a monthly basis. millions of people. there were periods where we had millions of millions pouring in on a monthly basis. they buried companies in crippling -- pushed massive tax hikes and give 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. we lost 106,000 manufacturing jobs. other than that, he has done a

fantastic job. but now all that is changing, because we finally have the president who wants to put our country first, you have a president who believes in america first. in the first quarter gdp numbers, just out today, core gdp, we are removing distortions from imports, inventories, and government spending. it was up plus 3%. but this is biden's economy because we took over on january 20. i think you have to give us a little bit of time to get moving. but this is the biden economy. but we still had, and we had a lot of things happen since november 5 that helped this economy. because it was indicating a strong private sector growth. and it only started after november 5. the private sector started really heating up after the election. even though i wasn't there,

people knew what we were going to be doing, and the private sector growth was actually very good. gross domestic investment was up an incredible 22%, which they had never seen before. every new investment, every new factory and every new job. it is a sign of strength in the american economy. and a declaration of confidence in america's future. we have never seen anything like this, even samsung, whose name is not mentioned here, but i heard they announced this morning that they will be building a very big plant because they want to be able to beat the tariffs. it's your 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, hire american workers and build factories in america, not in china or any other country. we are dealing with many countries right now, i will say. and i think i can say for scott and for howard, and for some of

the people that are dealing, too many to handle. i would love to hire some of the people running these companies pier 1 would you do? would you do a good job? we could have jensen negotiating and blow my people away, i think even howard would say that. howard would say, we will take them. he would make deals, one deal with be the end. that would be it. but we have 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 out the window. and in the coming weeks, they will pay us the largest tax cuts in american history. i think even more so, we will be doing things for business like you have never seen before. you saw it in a smaller version at the beginning of our last term. we had the most successful four years at any -- that any president has had.

the stock market was up 88%. the other markets were up almost 100%. and that is despite covid and all of the crazy things happening. but we had a tremendous four years, we were given -- we were given credit for that. our big beautiful bill, as i call it, we may name it that, it will include 100% expensing rep -- retroactive to january 20. that is all the way back to just about the beginning of the year. expensing one year, you take a deduction, so you can build your factories right now. essentially almost tax-free. nobody has ever been given that. we will make that for a four year period at a full 100%. last time, we made it one year and you had deductions from 100% to 80% to 60% to 40% to 20% to zippo.

we will keep it at that level and we will have it for four years. i believe that was one of the reasons 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, it was so complicated. worse is that the tax rate was 65%. it lowered the rate substantially but still a lot. we should not just take your money holding you hostage, so we lowered it to a reasonable amount. we took in trillions of dollars. apple brought in a tremendous amount of money. a lot of the companies here brought in a lot of money. the businesses represented today clearly understand if you build your factory in the united states, your tariff rate is zero. you have other advantages too. not the least of which is what i just said having to do with that. we have to get that bill approved. call your local representative, please, and make sure we get it approved. we are doing well with the

republican congress. we have the senate, it's doing great. the house is doing great. john thune has been spectacular. mike johnson has been spectacular. marcia, you are in their working very hard and doing well. what do you think, are we going to get it passed? we have to. if we don't get it passed, i'm blaming you. [laughter] we have to get it passed. we will. i think we will. i don't think we will have any democrats -- if we don't get it passed, what would happen is your taxes go up 68%. think of that. we may not get one vote, because they just vote against it. trump during insurance syndrome or maybe they hate republicans, for they hate what they -- what we are doing because they have lost their confidence. they don't know what the hell is going on. and we are going to get it done. it is probably going to be fully

republican. fortunately we have the house, we have the senate. we may or may not have a couple grand standards. i don't know. if we do, it would be good if you could work on anybody. if i was a democrat, i would be hope -- would be voting for a 100%. i think it's dangerous not to vote for it. your taxes go up almost 68%. it looks like we are in good shape. and hopefully we will get it approved. it will be the biggest bill ever approved in the history of our country. and it will be the biggest tax cut ever approved in the history of our country. in addition to that, regulations, which i'm doing in and outside of the bill, will be 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. we are talking about eight years and two term presidents.

we are four times higher than any other president in terms of regulation cuts. and i went to a friend of mine who happen to be in the room, one of the biggest loot -- biggest business leaders. i said to him, have you chosen between the big tax cut last time, and a big regulation cuts, which were the biggest we have ever done. i would have said taxes, but he would have said regulations, i said, which is more important to you? he said, if i could only have one, he said, most important would have been regulation. the regulation was more important than the tax cut. we cut your taxes from almost 40% under 21%. now we are bringing your taxes down from 21% to 15%, if you build your product in the usa. if you make it in the usa, those chips, those beautiful chips, we will make those suckers in the usa and you will be all the way down to 15%.

there has never been anything like it. now we are at the lowest scale for a large country, by far the lowest scale. pro-jobs, pro-american economic policies are a major reason that businesses around the world have announced $5 trillion of investments since november. now we think it is up to plus 8 trillion. and they are really coming in. they are coming in fast. some of them don't bother calling us. some don't even want meetings, they don't want to just start there plans and factories. i want to express my tremendous appreciation to the business leaders here. you are really an amazing group. this is a who's who. i don't want to say. there is 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. that could never happen here. but i want to congratulate you all on your incredible success and accomplishments.

you have been amazing. you are the biggest on the best. i would like to introduce some of you, president and ceo of high-end date -- of hyundai. jose is investing $21 million, including $5.8 billion for a new steel plant in louisiana. i saw a picture of it. it's going to create at least 1500 jobs. chairman and ceo of global shipping giants, cma cgm, rudolph said a. thank you very much. investing $20 billion and creating 10,000 new jobs. thank you very much. you will be very happy. president and ceo of toyota north america, ted ogawa,

investing $88 billion. thank you, ted. that is fantastic. ted is investing 88 million dollars for car production at its west virginia factory, which is a beauty. i have seen it, actually. congratulations. thank you very much for being here. cofounder and ceo of and real, brian, thank you, brian. he is investing $1 billion for a new manufacturing facility in ohio. and it displayed next to me is there 125 pound roadrunner drone. where is that little sucker? or is it? -- where is it? that is a nasty looking thing. i look up there when i'm having dinner outside, i use to up and see the moon, 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 a good one.

i can see it. ceo of worldwide amazon stores, doug harrington. thank you very much. thank you, doug, very much. investing $4 billion this year alone. i know they said they will be investing a lot over the next few years. we appreciate it very much. cl of venture global, mike sable. thank you very much, mike. investing $18 billion in liquefied natural gas expansion in louisiana. that is going to work out good. thank you president and ceo of siemens usa, a big company, barbara honiton. thank you, barbara. thank you very much. investing $285 million. executive global chairman of pratt industries, a friend of mine, anthony pratt, he is investing $5 million.

thank you, anthony. i read a report today that he is the richest man in australia, but who the hell knows? you think you are the richest man in australia? close? i don't like to put you on the spot like that, but that's pretty good. thank you very much. that's great. $5 million. founder and ceo of cho bonnie -- of chobani. investing $1.2 billion. thank you very much. ceo of bell brands usa, yvonne gerard. thank you very much. $350 million. president of schneider electric north america, and ron paul. thank you very much. investing 700 million dollars for energy infrastructure, its largest investment in its 135 year history. chairman and ceo of johnson &

johnson, i have heard of that company. yeah. my hair looks so beautiful because of your product. $55 billion manufacturing plant, and research and development and technology. thank you very much. $55 billion. that's a lot. but you've got to catch up with apple and some of the others. you are 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 sweettalk's me. he tells me about the middleman. keeps telling me about the middleman. by the time i leave the meetings, i was telling my people, i say, he is giving us a great bargain. david, you have done some job. david ricks. you have done some job. i will see you later, to. $27 million, doubling its investment in the u.s., and he

has a very hot topic right now. that stuff is doing really well. really hot company. thank you very much. ceo of novartis, $23 billion, thank you very much. thank you. ceo of genentech, ashley mcgarvey, $50 billion. that's a lot of money. thank you, ashley. that's a big one. ceo of abvie, rob michael, 10 billion dollars. thank you very much. good company. president and ceo of thermo fisher, marc casper, $2 billion. thank you, mark, very much. chairman and ceo of merck, great company, rob davis, $9 billion. thank you very much.

chairman and ceo of abbott, robert ford, $500 million. thank you, robert. chairman and ceo of a company called ibm, where are you? thank. that's fantastic. $150 billion. that's all? that's great. thank you very much have done a great job. you have done a great job with that company. chairman and ceo of ge aerospace, larry culp. thank you very much. and larry is investing $1 billion in manufacturing in 16 states. we have the model of their f 110 engine, which i hear is like, i must tell you, i hear it is the hottest engine there is. you have got a goldmine over there. which powers our nation's finest fighter jets and other jets. and your big engine is really something that i hear is beyond

anything that has been produced yet. good luck with it. larry, i think we will ask you to say a few words. so, on up. thank you. [applause] larry: thank you, mr. president. it is an honor to be here representing all my colleagues. we are 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. what you see here with the f1 10, powers 70% -- 70% of the new air force 15's. i know you were in michigan yesterday. this is the engine that will be on the eagle to that the michigan international guard will soon be flying. we are excited about what's happening at our company. we are investing $1 billion this

year, as the president said, across 16 states. not only in our manufacturing footprint, but with so many of the small and midsize businesses that constitute our supply chain. there is a lot happening, we are excited about it. thank you for what you're doing, not only revitalizing u.s. manufacturing, but helping ensure the u.s. aerospace industry, one of our biggest net exporters, continues to lead the world in innovation. thank you. [applause] pres. trump: great job. and he has done a really great job. you took over a slightly troubled company and now you have made it out as a business. that is an amazing job. also with us is chairman and ceo of softbank. , on up here. -- come on up here. massa has pledged 200 billion dollars plus another $500

billion with oracle and openai, for a total of $700 billion. come on up. please. [applause] >> first, further trump administration, we made a commitment, $50 billion. we delivered $70 million over four years. this time, i tried to commit $100 billion, and president trump said, oh, go for more. so we did a $200 billion commitment, and after that, we, softbank, openai, oracle, together, we announced $500 billion investment. this is the largest investment for infrastructure in the united states.

i think this is more than -- this is the largest infrastructure for ai. which is the future of mankind, i believe. it is going to change every industry, every way of how mankind's lifestyle of the future. i am committed, the u.s. is the center of innovation. the u.s. must continue the leadership of ai. thank you very much. pres. trump: thank you. it's an honor. thank you very much. you are a friend of mine for a long time. you are really something. it's great. we appreciated, too. great spirit, great genius. tim cook from apple is pledging, not only pledging, has committed to $500 billion. they are going to build plants

all over the country. seven or eight different states. they have already started. i want to thank tim. that is such a big investment for somebody that had pretty much in one location, as you know. now they are coming into the united states because of the spirit and the tariffs and the incentives. that is apple for $500 million. and one of the most brilliant men you will ever meet, a man that has done it in a short time, something that is incredible. he is the founder, ceo, and president of nvidia. jensen long. he is producing up to $500 billion over the next four years to manufacture the most powerful ai chips in the usa for the first time ever. when you come up and say a few words? this is a smart cookie. [applause]

jensen: thank you, mr. president. it is a great honor to be here. nvidia reinvented computing for the first time after 60 years. over at ibm, the computer has largely been the same since the 1960's. the ibm system 360 described really quite perfectly the computer we use today. central processing unit, operating system, separation of hardware and software, multitasking, all of the words we use to describe computers today were invented in 1964, a year after my birth. after all of this time, we have reinvented computers again. this is what a processor looks like. people say it is a gpu. that is one gpu unit. and it is 70 pounds, 60,000 parts, 10,000 watts. in order to manufacture it, it requires probably a couple hundred companies in the supply chain.

it is so heavy, that it requires robotics to do. it's so precise. and to just a test a supercomputer requires a supercomputer. we are going to build nvidia's technology and the next generation of that all here in the united states. without the president's leadership, his policies, his support, and very importantly, his strong encouragement, and i mean strong encouragement. frankly, manufacturing in the united states would not have accelerated at this pace. when you fracturing is not about low-cost labor anymore. manufacturing is about technology. most of the factories that build the systems today are the most advanced factories in the future. we are going to use artificial intelligence and robotics and omnivorous digital technology to make it possible for us to

create factories of the future. we have to build it right here. the real amazing thing is this computer is the engine of a whole new industry. this new industry is called artificial intelligence. this new industry as a manufacturing industry in itself. that is a factory machine. just as several hundred years ago, the dynamo was invented, water would come in and electricity would come out. now electricity goes into the machine and incredible tokens,. artificial intelligence. in order for this industry to thrive, we need to build the systems, but we also need a progressive growth and industry oriented energy policy which this president has really put his weight behind. 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

the creation of a whole new industry. this industry will enable a bunch of other industries, what we now call the infrastructure that will revolutionize every industry that we know. all of the many ceos in the room today are great partners of ours for that reason. we are working on artificial intelligence for many industries, from health care, to drug discovery, to life-sciences 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. i want to thank you for everything you have done, and a strong encouragement and great policies that make it possible for us. thank you, sir. [applause] pres. trump: another brilliant man. we have a brilliant people here. we like brilliant people, actually. but we have a lot brilliant people in this group. it's an honor to be with you.

the past 100 days, we have been fighting to reclaim our jobs and bring our country back to a level it has never seen before. again, renew the american dream, which is what we are doing. we have tremendous spirit. i don't know if you have heard, but it has become quite a story. secretary of defense, we have the largest number of new enlistees, or people enlisting in the military forces that we have ever had. if you remember six months echo, we could not get anybody to sign up. that is a big turn in a short period of time. november 5 had a lot to do with that. secretary of defense, and a lot of the people you see sitting here, had a lot to do with that. i can say that also with the police forces throughout the country, we are having a hard time filling them. dangerous job. now, we have waiting lists at

almost every place. and that is an amazing accomplishment. it's amazing carry [applause] -- it's amazing. [applause] and when i first came here, you remember, just three months ago, i came in and they started screaming, the fake news was screaming, going crazy about eggs. what's with eggs? they said, their cost is up 50%, and you won't have them for easter. i said, well, i will have to get onto it. this is not my problem, this is biden's problem, i have only been here for four days. they were screaming about me -- screaming at me about eggs. we got it taken care of and eggs dropped 87%. everybody had eggs for easter. we had a big easter egg hunt on the lawns, 44 -- 48,000 people came. we had a lot of eggs. i don't know how many, but a

lot. they said, could you use plastic eggs? this was in early january. i see our secretary of agriculture is here. will you stand up? you did a great job. you got me out of a lot of trouble. [applause] 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. we had plenty of eggs for easter. there was no dearth. we have another man in the audience, may be the most important man in the room because he is the head of the environmental protection agency, meaning he is the one who approves all of your plants. when jensen and the others came in about numerous others, having to do with ai, they came in, i learned a lot. i learned we need double the electricity that we have now for the whole country. and more than that, two times would be even better. it was unlimited thirst for

electricity. at first, i said, how is that possible? whatever it is, it's possible. that machine, you said you can barely lift it. it sucks up a lot of energy. but we need more than double what we have now. you take all of the energy, even the energy of this beautiful -- isn't this the greatest? i don't care where you come from, when you have a $50 billion plant, the white house is the white house. if you want to take a trip down to the oval office, and if you come down with me, i will show you a beautiful office. it will blow your beautiful offices away. it is, it's a beautiful place. if you want to, i'm serious, you can do that. i told jensen, i told tim, i told everybody that is building these very big incredible plants, clients of the future, they were talking about hooking into the grid.

i said, the grid is old, and it is subject to mishap. things can happen, including storms and much worse than storms. if you want, i will let you build your own utility plant, your own electric plant along with your building. you can build it inside the plant or build it outside the plant. i went to lee zeldin right here and i said, we have to get fast approvals for these people. they will do the best job, they will have the best engineers, the best everything. we would like to have them build their electric for them. you become a utility. you become a great producer of electric. if you have any extra, you put it back into the great. -- the grid. display, we don't have to worry about if we have enough. if you look at california, they have brown outs, blackouts, they don't know what the hell they are doing. the governor doesn't have a

clue. the luster you want to do is hook up to the california grid. you will go in and say, g, we have to close down the factory for a couple days. you will be able to build your own plant that purred -- and produce as much electric is your beautiful hearts desire. that will be something nobody has done before. we will ask lee to get those approved quickly. and he will get it approved before you can even imagine. he is great. he knows the difference. you can take years to get those approved. i would say previous to us, it would be years and years, or you can take weeks to get them approved and it will be just as good. but they don't play games and they will get it done very quickly. that is going to be a big help. you will have unlimited energy, unlimited electricity, and i think it is going to really -- we want to stay number one. we are number one right now by a lot. if i didn't get elected, i would

say, get out of the ai business fast. get out of all business fast. because this country is heading in the wrong direction. but now it is heading in the right direction. i think it is the most consequential 100 days in the history of our country in certain ways. we had an editorial from a group that normally would not give editorials to people like me. and they said he is the most consequential president because of what he is doing with all of these policies. beyond the electricity and the plans, having to do with other things like secure borders and all of the many things that i could go down and named them. we are going to be getting tremendous amounts of drug and pharmaceutical companies pouring into the country. they are going to have to. and we will give them a lot of time to do it. after that, there will be a tariff wall put up. and they will not be happy about

it. they will be happy if they start building right now. right now, it will be built and after a certain time, it will get tougher and tougher and then it will be hard to do business in this country. for the pharmaceutical companies, chip companies, and a lot of different companies, we are all set to really grow. groceries are down. the grocery prices are down. gasoline prices are down. we had some gasoline selling for $1.98 a gallon. in three different states over the last two days. it was at four dollars, 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 down slightly, even though i have a guy in the fed that i am not a huge fan of, but that's ok. don't tell him i said that, please.

as the cameras are going back there. he should reduce interest rates. i think i understand interest a lot better than him. because i have had to really use interest rates. we should have interest rates go down. it would be positive. but it is not going to matter that much because ultimately, what we are creating has much more to do with other things than it does. interest rates. it would be nice for people wanting to buy homes and things. the prescription drug prices, just saw the largest monthly decline ever recorded. david, i'm having a little bit of an impact as i browbeat this guy coming it looks like he is 25 years old, he has this massive company, eli lilly. it has no impact on him whatsoever. i saw this number that just came out, the largest monthly decline ever recorded. probably about 2%.

they did that to me, we feel a little bit better. i appreciate it. we have achieved the lowest number of illegal border crossings, in u.s. history and we are at a level that nobody thought we could get to in two years, let alone a couple months. christie, where is she, she is here. stand up, kristi. and tom homan. and i see linda, stand up, linda, you are doing so good with education. we are bringing education back to the states. and she has been incredible. she is very upset with harvard. they want more grants. it looks like we will not be giving them any more grants, right, linda? a grant is at our discretion. and they are really not behaving well. it's too bad. but our country is roaring like never before.

nobody has ever seen anything like this. the big thing is whether it is $8 trillion or more than that, by the end of the year, it could be a number -- i think it is already never anything like this. this is in a period of a couple months. by the end of the year, the numbers will be staggering. it is really going to be something very special and i'm very honored to be with you. i would ask if anyone has any questions, please, this is your time. you will be live on television, all the fake news back there. that's the way to keep them down. unless they are bad people, unless they want to make some news. with anybody have any questions? business leaders, do you want to know anything about depreciation? i love it. we have done such a good job, we don't have to -- howard, would you like to say a couple words, please? [applause]

howard: the president talks about $8 trillion coming into america, and there is only one reason is coming it. it's because he is 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, you need to be made in america, made in the usa. 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 we are going to be rocking. so thank you. [applause] pres. trump: thank, everybody. and for the business leaders, if any of you would like to come to the oval and say hello, if you have never seen it. if you have seen it, enjoy your lives, count your money. but i'm heading down there now. thank you very much, everybody.

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