Trump announces a $200 billion energy infrastructure investment with the Republic of Korea

President Trump Makes an Announcement with the Secretary of Commerce. Well, thank you very much everyone. I think you read my release. I put it out on Iraq. We're out of there. We have a very good prime minister who I endorsed actually in the election. He was uh not doing particularly well, but he was a great gentleman and a great man and I endorsed him and he won. And uh we left Iraq after 23 years and uh billions and billions of dollars spent. We shouldn't have been there in the first place, but we're now gone. And we took everything with us. Every every nut, every bolt, every screw, every tank, every plane. We we're we left Iraq. Isn't it nice? Should have never been there, but we should have left a long time ago. So I'm very honored to tell you that. and we left with dignity and respect. In fact, the prime minister has great respect for your president and for us and he appreciates everything. And we'll be there to help if we if we need to. But that's a big thing. We're out of Iraq after 23 years. I I notice you complain about Venezuela, which was 148 hours. We're in we won the war in 148 hours and no deaths. And in Iran, where their military is gone, their navy's gone, their air force is gone, their anti-aircraft is gone, everything's gone, their leaders are gone, just about everything's gone. They have a 301% just came out. Inflation rate of 301%, their currency is valueless. Uh, we lost 18 people, great people. Losing one is too many. But if you look at just if you look at Iraq, we lost 4,500 people. And uh the result isn't anywhere near what we have here. Although we went into Iraq to destroy ISIS and I did that in my first term. That's why they should have left long ago. But the sole reason we went to Iraq was to eradicate ISIS. And I did it in my first term. They should have left. Today, we're thrilled to announce one of the largest energy infrastructure investments in American history. Thanks to the agreements my administration has secured with the Republic of Korea, they will invest up to $200 billion. That's the Korean government. $200 billion to build a six gawatt power generation facility in Texas. Uh that's a major plant. That's about as big as you'll see. eight new largescale nuclear power plants and at long last Alaska liqufied natural gas pipeline. That's a big one and that's why we have a lot of people from Alaska including a very great governor and your great senator Dan Sullivan. We're joined on this occasion by Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnik who's very involved in this whole situation, a big one. Secretary of the Interior Doug Bergam, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, Alaska Senator, as I said, Dan S. Sullivan, you know, the Democrats put up another man in the race named Dan Sullivan. He's a fraud. Dan Sullivan's a fraud. That Dan Sullivan is a disgraceful fraud. They put it up for confusion and everything else. And uh I believe he actually tried to get his initial because his initial I think was J. And he said, "No, I have nothing to do with this." But despite saying he has nothing to do