President Donald Trump on Thursday said he'd like to be the next President of the United States as he would "make somebody look very good," indicating that the work he had initiated in his current term would be beneficial for whoever became POTUS next.
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Trump: "We have many car — we have more car plants being built now in the United States than at any time in history. And, you know, we went years before me, we went many years with no car plant being built. I mean, they wouldn’t even think about building in this country.
Now, we’re the hot — same thing with chips. We’ll have about 50 percent by the time this term is over, we’re going to have probably 50 percent of the chip market. A year ago, when we began, we had no chip market.
We had virtually none other than Intel. We had Intel and we made a purchase of 10 percent of Intel. We got it for the right price and we made approximately $72 billion on that deal. So, it was good. Do I get credit for that one? No, I get no credit. None. But we did that and we have — we made a lot of great deals, I’ll tell you. We keep it going too.
But Intel’s been fantastic, one of the hottest companies anywhere in the country, and when we met them, they were really having very big difficulty. We worked with them, but the stock price has gone up many times. I think it’s maybe the hottest or one of the hottest anywhere in the world.
So, that was an honor to do it. I love looking good, but we made a lot of money. We made, I guess, over $70 — $72 billion on that, profit. They’ve also agreed to invest heavily in local communities where data centers are built, supporting job training and local services. They’re really spending a tremendous amount of money, in other words.
The governors in the room, you have great governors in this room. And these companies are spending tremendous amounts of money on the communities, the local communities. So, I think it’s important that we tell the local communities that, because other nations are trying to get us to slow down. And they’re spending a lot of money on propaganda, on press, PR, trying to convince everybody that this isn’t a positive thing.
And if we don’t do this, we’re going to be left behind. And even communities, compared to other communities, you have some communities that really want this. This isn’t all negative stuff. This is, you have communities that really want the data centers. And frankly, those are the smart communities, because it means tremendous numbers of jobs, very little actual disruption.
And the ones that don’t want it, you know, the happiest people in the world are foreign countries, number one. And, number two, other communities within our country because they’re begging for them to be there. And some of them are great communities, very, very forward-looking communities, very smart communities.
Since I introduced this plan just a few months ago, more than 220 utilities, tech companies, state governments and other partners have signed our ratepayer protection pledge. Electricity rates for 80 percent of the power distributed in America are now being kept in check by the plan.
We have kept rates down, way down. You know, we inherited the worst inflation in the history of America from the Biden Administration. And as you know, last week it was announced that inflation is way down. It’s down more than it’s been in over six years. And other things are happening that are so fantastic.
And when these — all these buildings, plants, factories that we’re talking about start opening up, all I know is I’d like to be the next president because I’m going to make somebody look very good. They’re going to sit there and all this stuff is going to be opening and they’re going to be saying what a genius they are.
That happened with Biden. I got cuts in medicine prices that statutorily took two or three years, and I got these tremendous cuts. And then they sat there and said, 'oh, yeah' — they didn’t even know where they came from, but I got them. And this is going to be a much bigger example.
You have all these plants that are going to be opening up over the next two years, sooner, but two years, and somebody’s going to look very, very smart. And I hope you remember me because what we’ve done is something that nobody thought was possible."
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