During a press conference in the Oval Office on Wednesday, President Trump answered a question about if there were enough American workers to fill Apple's planned new factories in the United States.
00:00Mr. President, you promised on the campaign trail to bring forth a manufacturing renaissance.
00:05You just mentioned $17 trillion in your first seven months or so.
00:09Can you talk about how an investment like this, all the other ones that you laid out,
00:13will positively impact the millions of Americans that trusted you with their vote?
00:18Thank you very much. It changes our country.
00:21I mean, our country is a very different country than it was six months ago.
00:26And people like Tim are coming. We had Micron in yesterday.
00:31We had all of the big, great companies that you read about, you don't know about, but you read about.
00:36Many of them were making products outside of our country.
00:40Foolishly, we lost them. If we had the right person sitting in that seat, that would have never happened 20 and 30 years ago.
00:46When you look at the chip business, it would have never left our shores.
00:50We had 100 percent of chips originally, and then we slowly got taken down to nothing.
00:55We have the biggest chip companies, the both of them, but we have the biggest in the world coming in.
01:02They're going to Arizona and beyond.
01:05And we're going to have, in a short period of time, we'll be up to almost 50 percent of the chips from starting in nothing.
01:12And that's something.
01:13But we have the greatest companies in the world coming into our country.
01:16And that means jobs, and it means wealth, and wealth means security for our people.
01:21Okay? Brian?
01:22Yes, sir. Congratulations on this investment from President Trump.
01:27A great example of putting America first.
01:30What does the labor force look like to fill these jobs that you have?
01:34Do we have enough skilled American workers to fill these?
01:37Well, we do have a lot of workers, and we have a lot of workers that hadn't been looking for work because they were disincentivized, frankly.
01:44And people like Tim have tremendous schools and training centers that they build along with a lot of their big plants where they train people on whether it's glass, like in Kentucky, or computers, or whatever they might be doing.
02:00It's a complex world, and they train people, and they do a great job.
02:03So it's a whole new workforce.
02:07Now, we have a lot of them in energy because, you know, they've always liked energy.
02:11As you know, coal has opened up and opened up big.
02:14We brought it back and brought it back in a very large way.
02:18You know, China is right now building 58 coal-fired plants, 58 big ones.
02:23And here we were saying we don't take coal.
02:25We have more coal than anybody else in the world.
02:27We have more oil and gas than anybody else in the world.
02:30But we have tremendous energy jobs, and the energy, as you know, we're booming with energy.
02:36And that's why the gasoline prices are down.
02:38The costs are down.
02:39And I just hope when they watch these shows, I watch this.
02:43I won't use names because I just make them better known.
02:46Nobody knows who they are.
02:47But I watch this group of people on CNN, and MSDNC, too, the same thing, where they say,
02:54well, costs have gone up.
02:56Costs haven't gone up.
02:57They've gone down.
02:58I'm telling you, the thing that's gone up is stock, stock prices, and success of our country.
03:04Our country is really, really doing well, successful.
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