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Nov 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an annoucement 9 times
…tariffs. Not only tariffs, they charged us tariffs and we couldn't sell cars there. We couldn't sell our product. They didn't want our agriculture. They…
…Japan was charging us massive tariffs, and yet they wouldn't allow our cars to be sold in Japan. But they were selling 9 million cars…
…the United States. Well, they left. They took our plants. They sold cars in here without tariffs. They sold cars. We didn't charge them anything…
Nov 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at America Business Forum 4 times
…did the McDonald's shot. Remember the McDonald's shot? We did the garbage truck shot. And actually, the McDonald's one was the biggest hit in the…
…steel mills of Pittsburgh to the oil wells of Houston, from the car plants of Detroit—and those car plants are pouring into our country…
Nov 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…they open up. And it's going to be something special. We have car companies coming in. When I was in Japan, Toyota—Mr. Toyoda—I…
Oct 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump in South Korea for APEC CEOs Luncheon 3 times
…predict. Because when all of these factories that are moving in—the car plants are moving in. Yesterday I was with Mr. Toyoda in Japan…
…are going to spend $10 billion, and they're going to build new car plants. And they're going to build them in numerous States—about six…
Oct 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump has dinner with Japanese business leaders 6 times
…people that just announced, including Toyota, $10 billion. Going to open new car plants throughout the United States, a lot of them, and that's great…
…was not easy to come in. But they're taking some of our cars and some of our—a lot of our different thing—rice, which…
…taking the Ford 150, I hear. The big thing. Some of our cars . So it's really a great thing. It's going to be great for…
Oct 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump visits troops on USS George Washington 1 time
…say he was a pilot. He was a pilot. He was a truck driver—whatever—whoever walked in. He wasn't a pilot. He wasn't much…
Oct 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…I have other things to show you." We even rode in the car together. And he's something. America's ties to this region date back to…
Oct 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 2 times
…weekend. I rode around the city. I felt very safe in that car . But you know, I would have done it without it. I wouldn't…
Oct 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts a Rose Garden Club Lunch 1 time
…down to over 17, that's a guarantee. We're doing well with everything. Car plants are pouring back into our country. AI plants, we're leading—we're…
Oct 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Middle East Peace Ceremony 1 time
…Let me also express our condolences to the Qataris on the tragic car crash that claimed the lives of your cherished diplomats, some of whom…
Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times
…new—it's a new thing. "They spit, we hit." How about the cars , where the cars are coming out? They get brandnew cars—Border Patrol…
…have to go through a gauntlet of rocks being thrown at the car . So here's this beautiful, brandnew car. By the time it goes a…
…they're throwing bricks at full force into the window and into the car . It looks like it's a war zone. And I said, "Never let…
Sep 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…the White House, they'd call Uber for protection. They'd run to the car because they were petrified to be from the entrance of their building…
…car. Now they feel safe. They're in the car, and then the car gets hijacked while they're in the back of the car. This is…
Sep 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…I rode—I was at a deal today, and I'm in the car , and I said, "Ride me right through Washington. I want to go…
Sep 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…and they took other forms of transportation, they felt unsafe because their car was hijacked while they're in there. They take a car and it's…
Sep 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…soon those big places that are being built all over the country. Car companies are moving in. AI is moving in. Everybody's coming in. They…
Sep 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: What will Trump say during his signing of the Presidential Memorandum? 7 times
…elderly woman parked at the movie theater, dragged her out of the car , and body-slammed her into the pavement, where she is still trying…
…here. It's so darn dangerous that you can't get out of your car ." If you get out of your car, he says you get robbed…
…year-old Memphis carjacking victim. A man walked up, "Give me your car . You got 5 seconds to get out or you're dead." This is…
Sep 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…are working class things. We get a deduction—if you buy a car , you borrow money, we deduct the interest, Jason, which is so incredible…
…We have factories from all over the world coming in. We have car plants that were stolen from us. We had 40 percent—47 percent…
Sep 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times
…little while ago. Okay? Well, and they have the right to sell cars and things in our country. You know, it's—— ——not like a one…
…for their building—for AI. Then you have a lot of the car plants going up. Most of them won't need that kind of electricity…
…energy, I think you're going to be at $2 a gallon with cars very shortly. Two dollars. It was $4, $5 under the Democrats. That's…
Sep 2, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…is—literally thousands of countries—of companies are coming into the U.S.—car companies, AI—but you know, more traditionally, car companies. We have so…
…number three, they want to avoid paying tariffs. When they build their cars here, they don't have any tariffs to pay. You know, when you…
Aug 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…away with this for so long." You know, they'd send millions of cars in, and we weren't allowed to send one car. They wouldn't accept…
…car in Japan, and yet they would send millions and millions of cars into our country—no tax, no nothing. So, no, we're just doing…
Aug 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…know that I have friends—they leave their trunk open for their car because they don't want—they know they're going to be vandalized. They…
…the door, they don't have to break the windows and kill the car in order to steal whatever it is in the car that they're…
…into his garage, take whatever they want, and leave. But all the cars —or so many cars—I've been told this by many people—stars…
Aug 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…he was not good on trade. I totally disagreed. He allowed the car industry to be taken out of this country. We lost 50 percent…
Aug 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…going over to Kennedy Center. I have some great contractors in my car . I have really great marble contractors and woodworkers. And we're fixing Kennedy…
Aug 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…up this—and liked it. And Sly had—he's in an old car that he came in from Brooklyn—or someplace in New York, but…
…Brooklyn. It barely made it to California. He was sleeping in the car . He—I mean, he had nothing. And he wanted control over who…
…on overtime and all sorts of things. You go out, buy a car , you can deduct the interest payment. If you borrow money, you can…
Aug 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…the things. And actually, for people that go out and buy a car —first time it's ever been done. We talk about deductions for companies…
…be able to deduct interest when they borrow money to buy a car if it's made in America—has to be made in America. So…
…when you start seeing some of these incredible plants, because we have car plants opening. They're coming in from Canada, from Mexico, and from all…
Jul 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…really very special. Maybe even more importantly, factories for AI and for cars and for lots of other things are being built in this country…
Jul 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times
…ruin it. I just terminated all of the, as an example, California car emissions rules, which were a disaster—a disaster. It cost them millions…
…just billions of dollars as an industry, but thousands of dollars per car —the emission rule standard. Because they were making the production of an…
…of enthusiasm for this one industry. I mean, I can talk about cars , where we're doing incredibly well. We have car companies moving in all…
Jul 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…before the election, and it didn't really amount to that much for cars . You know, it didn't last that long, actually, because that's a big…
…it's Europe, I'll say: "That's okay. You're no longer allowed to sell cars in America. You're no longer allowed to have Mercedes, BMW, Volkswagen, or…
Jul 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…introducing me to Mr. Honda. I said, "Oh, are you in the car business?" He goes, "Yes." I said, "You're a very rich man." And…
…I said: "What business are you in? Let me guess." He said, "Cars ." He was my interpreter, and I was so impressed. And I was…
Jul 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. If you buy a car , you want to buy a car, you get a deduction of interest…
Jul 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…haven't—they're really at the infant stage right now. It's only on cars and steel, mostly, and the rest is starting to kick in. We…
Jul 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…tariffs—$188 bi-—and we haven't even started yet. That's only for cars and steel. We actually haven't—have barely started. The economy is roaring…
Jul 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…check that out? But all the coal miners we love and the truck drivers. In this act, we have officially made the Trump tax cuts…
…tax credit permanent for 40 million American families. And to increase the car affordability, it makes interest on a new car payment—so this had…
…deduct it. It's never happened before. So run out and buy a car . But I have to tell you, it's only good, Mike, if it's…
Jul 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…is insane—the electric vehicle mandate, where everybody had to have a car that happened to be all electric in the next few short years…
…it's ridiculous to mandate that everybody's going to be driving an electric car in five years from now. So I ended it. I signed an…
Jun 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Meets with Leaders of DRC and Rwanda 1 time
…never been anything like this. We have factories moving in. We have car plants moving in. We have—everyone wants to be part of the…
Jun 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…To do that is very dangerous. It's very, very heavy material. Those cars were most likely the cars of masons, because they were pouring concrete…
…nobody has ever seen. But most importantly, we have factories being built, car plants being built, companies moving to our country like never before. If…
…is a dangerous business. You know, I tell the story of the car companies and different people in different professions. You have race car drivers…
Jun 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…it's fine. He's from Harmony, Pennsylvania. As well as Dee Sova, a truck driver from Springfield, Missouri, where, by the way, our beautiful planes landed…
…delivering an even bigger win for the autoworkers by making interest on car payments fully tax deductible. You know, that's something only rich people seem…
…But I said—on interest, I said, "Why couldn't we, if a car is made in the United States only"—because otherwise, we don't care…
Jun 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…What—they were saying, "Everybody by 2030 has to have an electric car ," and people don't want it. I'm all for electric cars, but you…
Jun 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 66 times
…them. The automakers didn't know what to do, because they're really building cars for two countries. When you have 17 States, you're building cars for…
…radicals in California dictatorial powers to control the future of the entire car industry all over the country— all over the world, actually, because they…
…plan to impose a 100-percent ban on all new gas-powered cars within a very short period of time. Think of this. You couldn't…
Jun 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…taking them up to the bridges, and they're dropping them on the cars that are going by. These are animals. But they proudly carry the…
…are throwing firebombs, Molotov cocktails, lighting vehicles ablaze. You saw all the cars that were burning. Mobbing police officers and ICE officers, who are the…
…to—they're going to pay for themselves. And if you get a car and if you borrow money to buy the car, we're going to…
Jun 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…going up on bridges, and dropping it into the roof of a car . They were throwing it at our police. They were throwing it at…
…badly. They go up on bridges. They drop it down on the cars as the cars are moving. They're not breaking the curb because they're…
…people. Did you see the guy throwing the rocks at the police cars as they went by and crushing their windows and endangering our police…
Jun 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…you know, it's interesting. You watched the same clips as I did. Cars burning all over the place, people rioting. And, by the way, we…
…and the tariffs hadn't even started yet, just about. They were on cars . They were on some countries at a very minor level. And we…
May 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…It's going to happen fast. You're going to be very busy watching trucks go back and forth, loaded up with cash— —or its equivalent. And…
…And we're going to make the interest payments, as you know, on cars —we're going to take the car payments, and we're going to make…
…we're going to make interest payments tax deductible, but only if the car is made in America, and that means made with American steel and…
May 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…for trade schools, and they'll teach people how to build motors and cars and AI. You know, the AI—we're building plants. We're building hundreds…
May 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times
…have a big deficit with them. They sell millions and millions of cars , as you know— Mercedes and BMW and Volkswagen and others—many others…
…off getting them—getting them elsewhere. But for certain products, we want—cars . We want to make cars. We don't want to have—and I…
…Canada very much, but we don't want to have Canada making our cars . We want to make our cars. Oh, it's a phone call. Do…
May 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…be taking—and we are taking in right now 25 percent on cars , 25 percent on steel and aluminum, 25 percent on other things. And…
May 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…well. Oh, that's great. Wow. That's where they used to fix the cars , and a lot of other things got fixed there. A lot of…
…Where do they use premium aluminum? What kind of a—like— ——for cars ? Engines. That's fantastic. Please. You do the Patriot? The Patriot missile here…
May 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 11 times
…already on, that are our tariffs; and it doesn't include tariffs on cars , steel, aluminum, things such as that; or tariffs that may be imposed…
…the cards. They treated us very unfairly. They sell us 13 million cars . We sell them none. They sell us their agricultural products. We sell…
…if they want to get cute, then they don't have to sell cars into the United States anymore. It's a very big subject. And they…
May 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 14 times
…of the things we did here that we'll rarely do is on cars . We took it from 25 to 10 on Rolls-Royce, because Rolls…
…even ask them to do that. You know, it's a very special car , and it's a very limited number too. It's not, you know, one…
…that makes millions of cars. They make a very small number of cars that are super luxury, and that includes Bentley and Jaguar. So we…
May 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…to be doing that too. It was American tanks and ships and trucks and airplanes and service members that vanquished the enemy 80 years ago…