At an event at the White House on Wednesday, President Trump spoke about tariffs.
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00:00Well, 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 are the business leaders. It's not even close. I say that to my friends of politicians. You have the greatest business leaders in the world here. So it's an honor. And this week we're celebrating the most successful first 100 days of any administration in American history.
00:28We'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 we have a total of close to eight trillion dollars 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.
00:58I 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.
01:10I think two things happened. November 5th happened. And November 5th gave you tariffs, intelligently used tariffs and various other forms of incentive. But 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.
01:35As I always say, made in the USA, the most beautiful words, we're going to have made in the USA like we haven't had before in a long time.
01:41In addition to the business leaders whose companies I will mention in just a moment, we have some great people, great senators, Marcia.
01:51Where are you? Where are you, Martha? Martha? Marcia, thank you very much. Marcia Blackburn, Bill Cassidy. Bill, thank you, Bill.
02:00Ashley Moody. Ashley Moody. Ashley, thank you. And John Hustedt. John, thank you very much.
02:09And representatives Byron Donalds, Buddy Carter, Rob Whitman, Mark Alford, Mike Rogers, Richard Hudson, and Abe Hamaday.
02:19Thank you all very much. We have Mike Kehoe, governors, Jim Pellin, Kevin Stitt, Mike Dunleavy, along with numerous other members of my cabinet.
02:36And I want to thank you all for being here. How come my cabinet has such good locations?
02:40You should have given them up to the business leaders. We want their money, you know.
02:44They have a very good location, so I'm not surprised.