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Jun 16, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds bilateral with The President of UAE 1 time
…in the United States, which is a record. And that's building factories, car plants, everything. We're doing things that have never been done. The record…
Jun 16, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds bilateral with the Emir of Qatar 2 times
…already open or very soon. The pharmaceutical companies are coming back. The car companies are coming back from Germany, from Japan, from so many other…
…knocking it down." Everything's built brand-new, beautiful. It's jobs. And the auto business—we're going to bring back probably—we lost 57 percent of…
May 27, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a Cabinet Meeting 1 time
…It looks like, I used to say, the Long Island Expressway with cars. They're lined up, and they're coming to Texas, Louisiana. They're coming to…
Jan 29, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a Cabinet Meeting 5 times
…in many areas—$2.30 a gallon, average. Grocery prices, airfares, hotels, car payments, and rent prices are coming down very fast. And you don't…
…this is the first time this ever happened. If you buy a car, you go out and borrow money, you get an interest deduction. You…
…and I think it's going to be great for everybody, including the car companies. I was in Detroit 3 weeks ago. I went to the…
Dec 8, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds roundtable meeting 4 times
…think of all the money being poured into the country for new auto plants and all of the other things, AI. So what we're doing…
…they put everyone out of business. That's what they did to our car industry—we lost more than 50 percent of our car industry because…
…at $18 trillion. This is money pouring into our country on building car plants, on building AI plants. We just want to keep doing exactly…
Dec 2, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a cabinet meeting 11 times
…think of that. And, in addition, you get—if you buy a car—this is great for our car industry, because we have a lot…
…think we'll be bigger than ever—than we've ever been in the auto business. That's not even to mention AI, where we're leading China. You…
…insane electrical—electric vehicle mandate. And look, some people that make electric cars weren't happy with that, but we have to do that, because you…
Nov 18, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump hosts Saudi Prince 3 times
…to be at $21 trillion. That means new plants, new AI, new auto plants. We have auto plants coming in from Canada, from Mexico, from…
Nov 7, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds bilateral meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister 1 time
…world. Think of it. We'll have $20-, $21 trillion invested. We have auto plants pouring back in. We have AI pouring back in. We're leading…
Oct 29, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…We're leading in a lot of the different things. We have many car companies coming back, as you know, to the United States. Yesterday I…
…Japan, and Toyota is investing $10 billion on building car plants—numerous car plants throughout the country with American workers—largely American workers. And we…
Oct 14, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Bilateral meeting with President of Argentina 1 time
…they ran the show. You heard about the autopen. The person that auto—that really operated the autopen, but it was really the people that…
Oct 7, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump Bilateral 21 times
…way about here. The problem we have is that they want a car company and I want a car company, meaning the U.S. wants a…
…they would—they gave everything to Canada. They would, you know, let car companies leave here and go to Canada. But that hurts the United…
…on that? It's a tough situation, because we want to make our cars here. At the same time, we want Canada to do well at…
Sep 3, 2025 Meeting 7 times
…for our seniors, no tax on overtime, deductions when you buy a car and you borrow money to buy a car. First time they've ever…
…income people get deductions. You get a deduction when you buy a car. Nobody's ever seen—and by the way, they're selling cars like crazy…
…fact that we have tariffs, cars are pouring back into our—our—car plants are pouring back into our nation. They're coming from all over…
Aug 26, 2025 Meeting 17 times
…about eggs. Factories are booming compared to before I took office. Domestic auto production is going to be—it's—oh, it's going to be so…
…And you know about AI, and you know about other, but the auto plants, you know, that's the good, old-fashioned stuff that I love…
…the—if you look at comparing everything before I took office: Domestic auto production is up 18,000 cars a month, and we haven't even…
Jul 28, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…up the country. They were totally closed. They opened up to our cars, even to rice. Rice was a big deal. They would never take…
Jul 27, 2025 Meeting 7 times
…lot of very different countries—great countries, but some are strong with cars, some are strong with agriculture, some are strong with both, right? You…
…say were essentially closed. I mean, they— you weren't exactly taking our autos. You weren't exactly taking our agriculture. And then you would have smaller…
…think your various countries are very happy about this. Yes. I think cars. Cars basically were not invited, were not—I—I don't know if…
Jul 27, 2025 Meeting 8 times
…a lot of AI being built. And we have a lot of auto plants being built or going to be built because they don't want…
…too. No, I—you know, Europe is very closed. We don't sell cars into Europe. We don't sell, essentially, agriculture of any great degree. They…
…to have their farmers do it, and they want to have their car companies do it. Every—I'm just—I'm not saying anything that nobody…
Jul 16, 2025 Meeting 4 times
…so many other things. You're allowed to deduct your interest from a car payment. That's never happened before. You borrow interest—you borrow money to…
…America— and, by the way, factories are being built all over America—car factories, AI factories—but you get a deduction on your interest. Nobody…
Jul 8, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…We did aluminum, 50 percent. Lumber just came out. And we did cars. Cars. And now, today we're doing copper. I believe the tariff on…
Jul 7, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…the things that is so exciting is the number of companies and car companies where they're building plants. AI is the big thing. We have…
Jun 5, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…billions of dollars. And it really is unfair. We want to have cars of all types. Electric—we want to have electric, but we want…
May 22, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…That's okay. We are not going to let you sell any more cars into the United States," or "We're not going to let you sell…
May 21, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…right here— burial sites—over a thousand—of White farmers. And those cars are lined up to pay love on a Sunday morning. Each one…
…them. They're all White farmers—the family of White farmers. And those cars aren't driving. They're stopped there to pay respects to their family member…
…a dead person in every one of them. And those trucks or cars are paying their respects to all of those dead people on a…
May 6, 2025 Meeting 13 times
…turning. Between the tariffs—don't forget: We're now getting 25 percent on cars, 25 percent on aluminum, 25 percent on steel. And maybe more importantly…
…are moving into the United States. Honda—we have a tremendous—the car companies, they're moving in at levels we've never seen before. The biggest…
…that go there for—one one-hundredth the cost. And they have cars. They have a thing called the highway that goes back and forth…
Apr 30, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…There's never been a number like that. And that includes chip companies, car companies, every form of manufacturing, high-tech companies. Nobody's ever seen anything…
…lot. You've been treated very unfairly. And that—— And it's a great car. But you have been treated unfairly. But the vast majority of people…
…some point, I guess he wants to get back home to his cars and his—but we—want him to— . Done a really great job…
Apr 17, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…a lot of money. Don't forget, we're taking in 25 percent on cars, 25 percent on steel, 25 percent on aluminum, 10-percent baseline. We…
…up, and we've gotten them down. And that means that people driving cars are going to be paying $2 and $2.50 instead of $4…
Apr 17, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…rush. You have to understand, we're getting, right now, 25 percent on cars, 25 percent on steel, 25 percent on aluminum. And we're getting a…
Apr 14, 2025 Meeting 6 times
…to be doing that. That's going to be like we have on cars. We have, as you know, a 25-percent tariff on cars. We…
…close. Yes, please. I'm looking at something to help some of the car companies where they're—switching to parts that were made in Canada, Mexico…
…terrible advantage. They don't take our food products. They don't take our cars. We take—we have millions of their cars—BMW, Volkswagen, Mercedes Benz…
Apr 10, 2025 Meeting 12 times
…company. They're building massive new steel plants, and it's great. And, likewise, car companies. We have many, many car companies that—three of them— I'm…
…nice. But I'm not looking to hurt them. But we have three car plants that were under construction in Mexico. They stopped constructing, and now…
…you think you're going to come and sell your steel or your car or any product that you make, your pharmaceuticals"—which we're going to…
Apr 7, 2025 Meeting 14 times
…going to have to open up your country," because we sold no cars, like zero cars, in Japan, and they sold millions of cars into…
…what they do is, they charge tariffs so that if you sell cars or if you sell anything, nobody is going to buy it, because…
…has been very negative—very bad to us. They don't take our cars— like Japan, in that sense. They don't take our agricultural product. They…
Mar 25, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…You have many, many companies. And maybe, above all, you have the car companies coming in at levels that nobody has ever seen before. We…
…one of the biggest plants in the world in Indiana. And many car companies are coming in. We have AI. We're leading China by a…
Mar 24, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…to go to Mexico. You had to go to Canada. You—a car went all over the place. It was like—I don't know how…
…long in the making, and it's very substantial. And we'll be announcing cars very shortly. And we already announced steel, as you know, and aluminum…
…me for a thing. I mean, I got rid of the electric car mandate. I have no idea how that affects him, but possibly not…
Mar 17, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…warp or something happens, because it can't be hit by that many cars and trucks. But I don't know if you ever noticed. And I…
Mar 13, 2025 Meeting 8 times
…I'm not going to bend at all on aluminum or steel or cars. We're not going to bend. We've been ripped off as a country…
…subsidize a country for $200 billion a year. We don't need their cars. We don't need their energy. We don't need their lumber. We don't…
…more than they do. We don't need anything. We don't need their cars. I'd much rather make the cars here. And there's not a thing…
Mar 12, 2025 Meeting 9 times
…European Union. They don't take our farm products. They don't take our cars. We take millions of cars—BMWs and Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagens and…
…I will do that. Yes. Think of it. They have millions of cars coming in—millions and millions of cars. One of, probably, the largest…
…big too. But—and they don't accept our cars. We make great cars. They don't have our cars, but we have their cars. They don't…
Mar 11, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…Tesla." And we just went to the front. He had four beautiful cars there, and I bought one in front of the press. It was…
…tremendously positive impact—they will have and they are having. We have car companies that are not building in Mexico now. They're building in the…
Feb 27, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…We don't like the way they're treating our companies. They sell us cars. We don't sell them cars. They don't take our cars. They don't…
Feb 26, 2025 Meeting 9 times
…plated trucks and vehicles—70,000. If you think of a used car lot, the biggest one in the country, you have—I would say…
…subsidies one way or the other. We let them make millions of cars. We let them send us lumber. We don't need their lumber. We're…
…the question. I said, "Why are we letting you make millions of cars and send them in?" He was unable to answer the question—Justin…
Feb 21, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…I'm understanding, which is hard to believe. In other words, take every car, everything—every building. We need whatever it is—a hundred percent of…
…be. And as you know, we're going to be announcing tariffs on cars from foreign countries of 25 percent. That will be done in—probably…
Feb 20, 2025 Meeting 6 times
…our country. I canceled Joe Biden's insane electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto industry from destruction. That was an easy one. And all of this…
…Otherwise, you pay 21 percent. That would be great. To protect American auto workers, which—who, by the way, are—they're going to be one…
…of what we're doing with tariffs—because they just stopped two big auto plants in the middle of construction from being built in Mexico because…
Feb 7, 2025 Meeting 4 times
…And we're going to be working on that. And I think your auto factories are going to do very well. We have a lot of…
…I view that as a very good development, not a bad development. Auto tariff? Oh, yes. Sure. That's on the table. That's always on the…
…because we are—— You know, we have cases where we don't supply autos and other countries do. And you know, we have to equalize it…