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“Electric / Electricity” said in 57 of 248 transcripts, 277 times.
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Jan 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at the House GOP Member Retreat 3 times
…you're not protected, and they were. But it was so brilliant. The electricity, for almost the entire country, was "boom," turned off. That's when they…
…there was a problem. There was no electricity. Caracas said, "There's no electricity." It's not a—the only people with lights were the people that…
Dec 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 1 time
…They'll also have hypersonic weapons—many hypersonic weapons; state-of-the-art electric rail guns; and even the high-powered lasers that you've been starting…
Dec 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks in North Carolina 3 times
…a record all time, because, you know, we need tremendous amounts of electricity for AI and for all these plants. Electricity prices will fall very…
…I don't believe in the mandate where everybody has to have an electric vehicle within an hour, you know? I don't—but you've got to…
Dec 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds an address to the nation 2 times
…drastically drove up prices, and they drove them up at record levels. Electricity costs surged 30 to 100 percent under Biden, and the typical family…
…I would say by anybody, or certainly not very soon. Prices on electricity and everything else will fall dramatically. The Democrat inflation disaster—again, the…
Dec 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…we're leading in AI by a lot. And the big problem was electricity. But I allow our plants—in other words, all of these geniuses…
…billion—billion—$60 billion plant, I allow them to build their own electric capacity as part of the plant, and that solved the problem with…
Dec 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a signing ceremony 2 times
…We're leading China, we're leading everybody by a tremendous amount. We're—the electricity is being built by them in every plant. They're building the electricity…
Dec 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks in Pennsylvania 5 times
…Elon was up here campaigning, right? But I said, "Elon, I think electric cars are great, but not everybody wants an electric car." And I…
…supposed—everybody was supposed to have—everybody was supposed to have an electric car by the year, like, 2030, or some ridiculous year like that…
…walls of wire, and each of them has a million volts of electricity going through it. So, if you get over one, you're dead for…
Dec 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: President Trump makes an announcement 6 times
…It put tremendous upward pressure on car prices. Combined with the insane electric vehicle mandate, Biden's burdensome regulations helped cause the price of cars to…
…far, and people want the gasoline car. They want everything. They want electric. They want any—they want to have lots of alternatives, but they…
…more affordable. I signed an Executive order to end the unfair, expensive electric vehicle mandate. As you know, we had to have an electric car…
Nov 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump attends US - Saudi Investment Forum 9 times
…of those AI plants that are being built to build their own electric generating force. And they're building them like nobody's ever seen. And they're…
…ever seen. And this way, they can't blame me for not producing electric. I said, "You produce it yourself." And actually, they didn't believe I…
…do is—with that, how would you like to build your own electric generating plant?" And they looked at me like I was crazy, because…
Nov 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump swears in the ambassador to India 1 time
…energy, goes everything else. Because, when energy comes down, the oil, the electric, they all—but we—I think you're going to see $2 gasoline…
Nov 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at America Business Forum 19 times
…idea, so I'm very proud of it. I said, "Build your own electric." People would come, "We need more electric grid, sir." The electric grid…
…The electricity that the AI plants need alone is double the entire electricity that we have in the country right now. Can you believe it…
…going to do. We're going to let these geniuses build their own electric generation." So they are going to—they are building their own electric…
Oct 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump in South Korea for APEC CEOs Luncheon 9 times
…of, because I thought of it—like every, you know, country, our electricity production, our energy production is not—you know, it's not—nobody ever…
…revolution with the AI. And what they need more than anything is electricity. So, if a country was able to do that, it would be…
…never been anything like it. But I let them build their own electricity-generating plants with it. So they're building their own electric. They're sort…
Oct 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump has dinner with Japanese business leaders 7 times
…I did that's really helping AI, because of the massive amount of electricity that they need, is I said, "You build your own power plant…
…you know, doubling—you have to double or triple the amount of electricity that we current have. As an example, in the United States, you…
…billion to build a plant. I said, "You can build your own electric generating sources." And honestly, some of the people in this room, they've…
Oct 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump visits troops on USS George Washington 7 times
…these things building. I want to know: catapults. Which is better, the electric or the steam?" Okay. Ready? Or you guys. That's what you do…
…that was never on an aircraft carrier before. So they switched to electric. I disagree with it, but that's all right. Let me ask you…
…going to go steam first and then electric. Catapults. Which is better, electric or steam? I'm going put in an order. Seriously. They're spending billions…
Oct 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts a Rose Garden Club Lunch 1 time
…letting everybody build their own power plant, so they'll become like an electric utility in addition to AI. But if they want to build their…
Oct 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Oval Office Announcement 1 time
…We worked our magic. But groceries are down, and energy is down. Electricity is way down. We have the prices coming down for people. They…
Oct 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…types of plants—but AI in particular, because they need so much electricity. I've allowed them to build their own power, and it's been amazing…
…the AI. I don't know." But we're letting them build their own electricity, so we don't have to worry about the grid. We don't have…
…So, when they build—we're giving them permits to build their own electric power plants, and it's incredible when you see what they're doing. And…
Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…them go out and create their own energy plants and their own electricity, and they're doing it. We're giving them permits to build electric plants…
Sep 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump's Address to United Nations General Assembly 2 times
…the rules and are making a fortune. They're making a fortune. European electricity bills are now four to five times more expensive than those in…
…very uncommon to see one in some of these countries because the electric costs are so high. So, while the U.S. has approximately 1,300…
Sep 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…That's one thing I learned very quickly: They need a lot of electricity. In the United States, you need double what we have right now…
…we're creating tremendous amounts of energy and letting you create your own electricity in many, many cases. And we're getting you very rapid approvals. We're…
Sep 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…massive. Some of them cost $50 billion. We're allowing them to build electricity with their plant. Nobody ever heard of that before. They're building—and…
Sep 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times
…going up for $50 billion; they're going to be building their own electricity. And many of them have been given permits already to go and…
…handle the kind of numbers that you're talking about in terms of electricity. And we're letting them build their own plants. They build their own…
…they build their structure, they build their buildings, and they build an electric-producing plant with it. Like Con Edison in New York, that I…
Sep 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…business, actually. We're making it very easy for you in terms of electric capacity and getting it for you, getting your permits. We're leading China…
Aug 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…You know, right? You know, I would say—you know, he discovered electricity, a couple of other things too. But we have a lot of…
Aug 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times
…Zeldin has done a fantastic job. We're giving the right to build electric plants—they become almost like a public utility—because we have old…
…me. It's very hot. It's big. But they need massive amounts of electricity. They need more electricity than we have right now in the whole…
…in the United States. And they're building big plants, but they're building electric plants with it. I said, "You build your building"— and these are…
Aug 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…New Jersey. They closed up a nuclear power plant, and they're raising electricity rates by 21, 22, and 28 percent—something like that. And you're…
…he's an honest man. I think what they've done—this is an electric—this is really a political execution that they're trying to do with…
Aug 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 11 times
…to build a factory or grow businesses. I'm allowing them to build electric-producing plants with their factory because, otherwise, they'd have to hook into…
…the biggest things we've done: where you can build, Tim, your own electricity. You become your own electric manufacturer, and that goes along with the…
…okay. You're going to make—you're going to be making your own electricity. And as you probably know, for much of this and much of…
Jul 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…Lee Zeldin has given them very fast approval to build their own electric powering plants, and they'll build them with the factory so we don't…
Jul 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…companies love that or not, but we want to have very inexpensive electricity so that you can power up the plants, because you need more…
…a second is the fact that you're going to build your own electric-producing plants when you build whatever you're building. And it could be…
…a record—a record speed. But the ability to build your own electric plant, not having to rely on a 100-year-plus-old grid…
Jul 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony 16 times
…a permit. He's going to get you a permit for the largest electric-producing plant in the world in about a week. Would you say…
…looking at the numbers of China, where they're producing a lot of electric. Well, they only have one man they have to worry about: our…
…we have the greatest power, and we are going to have more electric. I said to some of the guys coming in—they wanted to…
Jul 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…the "green new scam" and terminated the insane—this is insane—the electric vehicle mandate, where everybody had to have a car that happened to…
…Let somebody else use it." But we're not going to have all electric. We're going to have electric if people want it. Electric is great…
…But 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…
Jul 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…and the AI that's coming in. They're going to build their own electric. They're going to be really—they're going to be made into electrical…
Jun 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…I can go nuclear a little bit, because we need it for electricity, we need it for air conditioners, et cetera." But when you're sitting…
Jun 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…terrible. 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…
Jun 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 31 times
…We officially rescue the U.S. auto industry from destruction by terminating California electric vehicle mandate once and for all. So good. They said it couldn't…
…tremendous—especially the AI—they have to produce beyond believable amounts of electricity. And they're doing—I said to them—I think this was more…
…going to build it. You're going to build a plant that produces electricity. And you'll produce it through natural gas, coal, nuclear." They're—we don't…
May 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…going up now and—or soon going up, and they need tremendous electricity. Are you going to be involved in many of those plants? Will…
May 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…said, "We can't believe it. We have the permit to build an electric plant, and we got it in very short order." So it's really…
…of the great—really, one of the great stories. And the General Electric engine is phenomenal with the—— ——the big body General Electric engine is…
…is the hottest engine there is. It's through the roof. And General Electric, you talk about a comeback. General Electric has made one of the…
May 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…So I salute the people from Boeing, Kelly and everybody. And General Electric—the engines are General Electric super prime. And I really think it's…
May 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…ridiculous? And how were you supposed to get your heat, then, through electric? Through electric? Yes. Was that basically it? Electric heat, which isn't as…
Apr 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times
…you very much. Three hundred and fifty million dollars. President of Schneider Electric, North America, Aamir Paul. Aamir, thank you very much. Investing $700 million…
…I learned a lot. Number one, I learned we need double the electricity that we have right now for the whole country. And, really, more…
…two times would be even better. It was like unlimited thirst for electricity. And at first, I said, "You know, how's that possible?" But that's…
Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times
…promise to the great State of Michigan, I terminated Joe Biden's insane electric vehicle mandate—where you are mandated to buy an electric vehicle. You…
…we're giving you gas ovens, gas stoves, if you'd like. No more electric. You can have electric, if you want. I have a lot of…
…angry. "Get rid of your gas stove. You have to go to electric." There's something they have with electric that's amazing. And, by the way…
Apr 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…leading China by a lot, by tremendous amounts. We're going to supply electricity at levels never supplied before. They're going to build their own electric…
…to be amazing for the country. They're going to build their own electric plants. We have to double up our electricity to be—to remain…
…take our whole country—we're going to have to double up our electricity—think of that—and probably even triple it up. And we're going…
Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…We're going to get them energy. We're going to get them the electricity they need and the energy that they need. And it will be…
Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…only superseded by "Russia, Russia, Russia" hoax. I canceled Joe Biden's insane electric vehicle mandate, where everybody had to have an electric vehicle in a…
…some power stations in the Midwest. They look like gas pumps with electricity, right? They spent $8 billion, and four of the nine of them…
…in our country now. You know, it—it does give us our electricity, because there's nothing like coal in terms of power, but it's going…
Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…technology that's coming online, we need more than double the energy, the electricity that we currently have. You take all of the electricity in the…
…going to be producing a lot of energy and a lot of electricity for this, and so are we. And we're going to get approvals…
…country. Earlier this afternoon I signed another Executive order to strengthen our electric grid by ensuring that coal-fired power plants are always available to…
Mar 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…States, and many of them have already been started. We're getting early electricity taken care of. We're getting permits very quickly for them, and we're…
…cost $10-, $15-, even $20 billion. We're going to let them build electricity-generating plants along with their plant, and they can't even believe it…
…lead to tremendous growth in the automobile industry. As you know, the electric mandate that we did allows you to buy a car now if…
Mar 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…saying—in fact, I could go a step further. I ended the electric mandate. Okay? I ended the electric mandate. And I figured, "When's this…
…better than I am. It's not that—I'm not—this isn't for electric or gas, because people have their choices. I'm just saying that I…
…options. I'm all about options. But I'm telling you, I ended the electric mandate, and I was waiting for a call. I said, "Did Elon…
Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…safe and totally unaffordable. And importantly, we ended the last administration's insane electric vehicle mandate, saving our autoworkers and companies from economic destruction. To unshackle…
…Dam, and the towering Golden Gate Bridge. They lit the world with electricity, broke free of the force of gravity, fired up the engines of…
Feb 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…you, monetarily and every other way. And I canceled Joe Biden's insane electric vehicle mandate, where everybody has to have an electric. And if you…
Feb 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times
…is, to do it, just in our country, you need twice the electricity just to open up and be the top of AI. You need…
…right now. In the entire country, if you take all of the electricity, you need more than twice. You need twice. You need double what…
…to have—if you build a plant, you're able to build an electric-generating facility right next to your plant, so you'll be making your…