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U.S. President Donald Trump spoke at the World Economic Forum about how American companies have built their own electric capacity, particularly in large industrial and commercial projects. Trump noted that this independence and innovation has earned respect from world leaders, including China’s President Xi.
Watch this clip for Trump’s remarks at WEF 2026 on energy, business innovation, and global leadership.


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00:00Actually, since my last administration, we got it down to around those numbers.
00:04I've signed an order directing an approval of many new nuclear reactors.
00:10We're going heavy into nuclear.
00:12I was not a big fan because I didn't like the risk, the danger.
00:17But the progress they've made with nuclear is unbelievable.
00:21And the safety progress they've made is incredible.
00:24We're very much into the world of nuclear energy.
00:27And we can have it now at good prices and very, very safe.
00:32And we're leading the world in AI by a lot.
00:37We're leading China by a lot.
00:39I think President Xi respects what we've done, in part because I've allowed these big companies
00:44building these massive buildings to build their own electric capacity.
00:48They're building their own power plants, which, when added up, is more than any country anywhere in the world is doing.
00:56I read recently an article on the Wall Street Channel that China's creating so much energy.
01:01And they are.
01:01I've got to hand it to them.
01:03But we're creating as much or more.
01:05And we're letting them do that.
01:07I'm very proud of it.
01:08It was my idea.
01:10I said, you can't create this much energy.
01:12We needed more than double the energy currently in the country just to take care of the AI plants.
01:19And I said, we can't do that.
01:20We have an old grid system.
01:21And I came up with the idea, you know, you people are brilliant.
01:25You have a lot of money.
01:27Let's see what you can do.
01:28You can build your own electric generating plants.
01:32And they looked at me.
01:33They didn't believe me.
01:34All of the names that are, I think, in the room right now, if you want to know the truth, they didn't believe it.
01:40And I said, no, no, you can't.
01:42They came back two weeks and they didn't have the plant.
01:44They said, we thought you were kidding.
01:46I said, no, not only am I not kidding, you're going to have your approvals within two weeks.
01:51I always say nuclear will take three weeks.
01:56But most are ongoing that they're going oil and gas.
01:58They're even going coal in some cases.
02:01Because of my landslide election victory, the United States avoided the catastrophic energy collapse,
02:08which befell every European nation that pursued the Green New Scam, perhaps the greatest hoax in history.
02:17The Green New Scam, windmills all over the place, destroy your land, destroy your land.
02:22Every time that goes around, you lose $1,000.
02:26You're supposed to make money with energy, not lose money.
02:29Here in Europe, we've seen the fate that the radical left tried to impose on America.
02:37They tried very hard.
02:39Germany now generates 22% less electricity than it did in 2017.
02:45And it's not the current chancellor's fault.
02:49He's solving the problem.
02:51He's going to do a great job.
02:53But what they did before he got there, I guess that's why he got there.
02:56And electricity prices are 64% higher.
03:03The United Kingdom produces just one-third of the total energy from all sources that it did in 1999.
03:09Think of that, one-third.
03:11And they're sitting on top of the North Sea, one of the greatest reserves anywhere in the world.
03:18But they don't use it.
03:19And that's one reason why their energy has reached catastrophically low levels with equally high prices.
03:27High prices, very low levels.
03:29Think of that, one-third.
03:31And you're sitting on top of the North Sea.
03:33And they like to say, well, you know, that's depleted.
03:35It's not depleted.
03:35It's got 500 years.
03:37They haven't even found the oil.
03:38The North Sea is incredible.
03:40They don't let anybody drill.
03:43Environmentally, they don't let them drill.
03:44They make it impossible for the oil companies to go.
03:47They take 92% of the revenues.
03:51So the oil companies say, we can't do it.
03:54They came to see me.
03:55Is there anything you can do?
03:57I want Europe to do great.
03:59I want UK to do great.
04:01Sitting on one of the greatest energy sources.
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