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Donald Trump: “It costs about $1 billion to build the [rocket].”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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Donald Trump full speech at campaign rally in Allentown, PA

Published | Video Starts at 17:22

No. Nobody can do that. I've never seen anything like it. I said, so why do you do that? That was a stupid question. Why do you do that? Well, you know, It costs about $1 billion to build the [rocket]. soccer. It's nice when you don't drop it into the ocean and have to start over. It's nice to be able to use it about 30 times more right now. (17:22–17:25)

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Asserts that the cost to build the rocket is approximately $1 billion.

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