Press Briefing by the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Unleashing Economic Greatness.
Inbound Investments So Far:
Project Stargate, led by Japan-based Softbank and U.S.-based OpenAI and Oracle, announced a $500 billion private investment in U.S.-based artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Apple announced a $500 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing and training.
NVIDIA, a global chipmaking giant, announced it will invest $500 billion in U.S.-based AI infrastructure over the next four years amid its pledge to manufacture AI supercomputers entirely in the U.S. for the first time.
IBM announced a $150 billion investment over the next five years in its U.S.-based growth and manufacturing operations.
Celebrating the first 100-days, the White House will be hosting cabinet members each day this week to highlight their specific accomplishments in the first 100-days of the Trump presidency.
Today, on Day #99 of the administration, Karoline Leavitt introduces Border Czar Tom Homan to outline border security measures and deportation effort that have been a priority for the Trump administration. WATCH (prompted):
President Trump holds an impromptu press conference traveling back to the White House from Morristown, New Jersey.
President Trump departed Marine One with Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl Champion Saquon Barkley, then takes questions. The topics covered his message to President Putin, the Zelensky meeting, Iran – no bombs needed, Zelensky meeting #2, what Zelensky said, Crimea, opinion on Russian President Putin, actions vs Russia, taxes and tariffs, the Russia deadline, relationship with Zelensky, the Crimea factor, Virginia Giuffre, Tariffs Talks with China, Melania’s birthday dinner, and the Wisconsin Judge arrest. WATCH:
Chopper pressers are the best pressers. President Trump and First Lady ¹Melania Trump depart the White House traveling to Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis. Our President notes that he and our First Lady will not be spending the night in Italy but will be returning back to the USA immediately following the funeral.
President Trump outlines his hopes for a ceasefire deal between Ukraine and Russia as special envoy Steve Witkoff is again visiting Moscow. WATCH:
¹Melania trolls the EU fashion world, who are upset about her husband’s tariffs, while carrying her Hermes purse. So subtle and yet so funny.
President Trump hosted Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in the Oval Office and took questions from reporters on Thursday. The majority of the question from both the U.S. and Norwegian media encompass the current effort to negotiate a ceasefire in Ukraine.
One of the ceasefire ‘sticking points’ per se’, is that immediately following the breakout of the conflict the government of President Zelenskyy changed many of their constitutional rules to include the legal elimination of opposition parties in the country, removal of religion or faith-based social influence that runs counter to the Ukrainian Nazi mindset, the cessation of elections in Ukraine, and other “emergency measures” intended to assist the stability of Zelenskyy’s government as they entered a war footing.
The results of the legal changes and constitutional framework, which included non-recognition of any lost territory, is now being leveraged by Zelenskyy in negotiations for a ceasefire. President Zelenskyy is now saying the ceasefire terms proposed, which include accepting regional losses of geography to Russia, are not constitutionally possible and he has no power to agree to them.
In essence, Zelenskyy’s emergency government changed the constitutional power of the President, cemented a new constitutional status during war, and now says those previous changes make it impossible to accept proposed terms. This self-fulfilling creation, intentionally done with forethought for exactly this kind of current scenario, is the baseline for frustration toward the Ukraine position. President Trump notes this Ukraine position is frustrating, while thousands die weekly in the process. WATCH:
Wednesday, President Trump held an executive order signing ceremony in the oval office and took questions from the media on current topics. Video Prompted:
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President Trump notes the economic team have been in contact with 90 countries from around the world who have called to renegotiate trade agreements. Additionally, Trump notes that 11 new automotive assembly plants have been announced by car companies in order to avoid U.S. tariffs. That’s a lot of American jobs.
Earlier today President Trump was spotted personally reviewing the placement for two new 100-foot flagpoles that will be placed on the White House grounds. President Trump briefly talked to media about the new additions. President Trump is personally paying for the installations. WATCH:
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The media quickly rushed to see what President Trump was doing, and then excitedly began asking questions, that turned into a brief impromptu presser. SEE BELOW:
President Trump takes questions from the assembled press pool in the oval office at the conclusion of the ceremony swearing in Paul Atkins as SEC Chairman. WATCH (prompted):
Earlier today, President Trump held the swearing-in ceremony for Dr. Mehmet Oz to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services along with Secretary of HHS Robert F Kennedy Jr. Following the ceremony President Trump took questions from the media.
The first questions to President Trump encompass the remarks by Secretary of State Marco Rubio about walking away from peace negotiations in the Ukraine-Russia conflict if the EU/UK and NATO participants do not get serious about stopping the bloodshed. The Q&A segment begins at 13:42 (prompted) WATCH:
President Trump holds a bilateral meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. After initial remarks in the oval office, President Trump and Prime Minister Meloni took questions from the assembled press pool.
Meloni has positioned herself as a moderator of sorts between the EU and President Trump administration on the issue of tariffs, trade and geopolitical aspects of the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
During an interesting segment of questioning by Italian media to Meloni [19:00 min mark], President Trump asked for translation of Meloni’s response delivered in Italian. [There’s a good reason for that] Meloni nervously listened to the translation reply, then injected her own clarification of her Italian comments into English. [Two tongues]