President Donald Trump spoke with reporters at the Air Force One while traveling back from Palm Beach, Florida, to Washington, DC where he defended the tariff – said they would be “the biggest thing we ever done as a country.”
“This will make our country rich again. We have many companies like you know, the car company opens the land now. We already have four or five that have been announced, but many more will come, and we basically will take back the money, a lot of money we have given for decades,” Trump said.
President Donald Trump spoke to reporters as the Press Secretary of the White House Karoline Leavitt standing nearby on the Air Force when he returned to Washington, March 9, 2025.
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The President suggested that the tariff is beneficial for the creation of employment and factory returns to the United States, citing the plan of the Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing company to invest $ 100 billion in a new factory.
Trump was also asked whether he would continue his assistance to Ukraine if the mineral agreement was signed, but he refrained from a definite answer.
“Well, I think they will sign a mineral agreement,” Trump said. “I want them to want peace.”
Trump claims that Ukraine has not shown that, and that will be clear for the next two or three days.
-ABC News’ Kelsey Walsh