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Donald Trump: “They're respecting America again.”

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LIVE: President Trump delivers remarks at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum

Published November 19, 2025 | Video Starts at 59:17

But we want the world to prosper. We want the world to be safe. Our alliances are flourishing like they haven't before. And, you know, They're respecting America again. They didn't respect us. We were like a bunch of stupid people. We had a president that couldn't get up and talk, couldn't walk up a flight of stairs. (59:17–59:20)

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“We officially designated the kingdom [Saudi Arabia] yesterday as the major non-NATO ally.”
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“Yesterday the crown prince announced that the number that they'll be investing in the United States is $1 trillion.”
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“$270 billion in agreements and sales are being signed between dozens of companies and that's just happening today.”
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“We just have a new plane, the F47. It won a very strong competition.”
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“In nine short months, I've secured $18 trillion to rebuild our factories.”
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“I got [the first LNG plant] approved in one day.”
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“Wages for hourly workers are rising at the fastest pace in 60 years.”
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“In nine months, we've lifted over 600,000 Americans off food stamps.”
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“Since March, egg prices are down 86%.”
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“For every new regulation, they're mandated to cut 10. And so far it's for every new regulation, they've cut 30.”
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“We signed a historic strategic defense agreement yesterday also.”
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“We're going to be selling Saudi Arabia some of the greatest military equipment ever built.”
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“Including nearly 300 American made tanks is what you're being, you're buying, among many other things, the airplanes.”
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“The partnership between our two nations is among the most consequential in the entire world.”
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“We obliterated [Iran's nuclear capability] very quickly and strongly and powerfully.”
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“This week, our countries also signed groundbreaking agreements on civil nuclear energy, critical minerals and artificial intelligence.”
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“All of that is in addition to the $600 billion investment in the United States that Saudi Arabia announced during my unforgettable visit…”
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“Tariffs have been, frankly, the best thing that's ever happened to our country.”
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“We're going to be doing a dividend to the people, low and middle income, moderate income people of at least $2,000.”
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“We'll be paying down debt very substantially.”
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“I'm allowing all of those AI plants that are being built to build their own electric generating force.”
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“I'm giving you approval to build your own plant, and you will be approved within a period of two to three weeks.”
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“We're leading China by a lot in AI and we're also bringing auto plants in from Canada and from Mexico.”
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“Toyota just announced as, you know, $10 billion worth of new plants.”
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“We rebuilt the military in my first term.”
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“Americans have rejected, failed, and they were really failed far left models that you were looking at of high taxes and massive spending…”
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“We had the worst inflation in history and now we have a beautiful normal inflation is going to come down over the next few months.”
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“It's the biggest bill ever passed in the history of Congress.”
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“We won all seven swing states.”
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“We won the popular vote by millions.”
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“We won in terms of districts, 2,750 to 550.”
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“In four long years, Joe Biden secured less than $1 trillion.”
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“We have more jobs right now than we've ever had in the history of our country.”
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“In my first term, we built the greatest economy in the history of the world.”
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“We did a great job with COVID.”
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“We became the king of ventilators.”
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“Despite that, we had the greatest economy in the history of our [country].”
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“You're building plants to make computers and to make telephones, to make a lot of different things, missiles.”
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“You're building plants that make things that are very, very detailed.”
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“You can't come in and...think you're going to hire people off an unemployment line to run it.”
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“In not such a long period of time since the election, the stock market has set, and this is a little more than nine months, 46 all time…”
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“Real wages for construction workers are up $2,200 a year.”
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“1.9 million more American born workers are employed today.”
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“Under Biden, one out of every four new jobs went to increase the size of the federal government.”
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“Under my administration, 100% of all new jobs created came out of the private sector.”
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“We cut thousands and hundreds of thousands of jobs out of the federal government.”
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“We're also making incredible strides to make America affordable again.”
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“Walmart just announced that the cost of their standard Thanksgiving meal is reduced by 25% this year from last year.”
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“According to the USDA, Turkey is down. Think of that. 33%.”
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“While congressional Democrats wanted the largest tax hike in history, they wanted to raise your taxes by 42% if you. 44%.”
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“I proudly gave you the largest tax cuts in American history.”
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“The tax cuts take effect on January 1st. And that's no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security for our great seniors.”
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“The biggest thing I've done for business and Jobs is deductibility. Where all of that money that you're spending 100%, think of it expensing…”
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“The original tax cuts, if we didn't extend, you would have had about a 58% tax increase from that point.”
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“It's the biggest tax cut in history for people and for businesses.”
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“I'm cutting a record number of job killing regulations. That's the other thing and have already slashed more than $1 trillion worth of…”
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“I've settled eight raging conflicts, eight wars.”
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“I settled one war. 36 years, I got it done in one day.”
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“I had another one 32 years, millions of people killed.”
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“Even Congo and the Rwanda, they had 10 million people killed.”
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“I got a call from Prime Minister Modi saying, we're done. I said, you're done with what? We're not going to go to war.”
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“Azerbaijan, you know, what was happening there? I settled that.”
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“We had a historic ceasefire. We ended the war in Gaza.”
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“Two days ago, incredibly, the United Nations Security Council backed the Trump peace plan.”
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“We have 59 countries signed on [to the peace plan].”
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“The United Nations, what's called the Board of Peace, chaired by a person called Donald J. Trump.”
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