President Donald Trump urged Americans to “go out and buy a Toyota” as he announced Toyota has promised $10 billion in investments toward new manufacturing plants in the U.S.. The president made the remarks in a wide-ranging speech to sailors aboard the USS George Washington Tuesday in Tokyo Bay.
He said that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told him earlier in the day that the world’s largest car company would pour funds into American manufacturing plants.
“I was just told by the prime minister that Toyota is going to be putting auto plants all over the United States to the tune of $10 billion. So that’s Toyota — so go out and buy a Toyota,” Trump said.
Trump was joined by Takaichi abroad the ship, whom he applauded for floating a purchase of Ford F-150 pickup trucks for official use and called upon her to deliver remarks.
In his speech Trump spoke of his foreign policy and unconventional use of the military to fight crime, drug smuggling and illegal immigration. He said world leaders “didn’t respect our country just a few years ago” — but that now they do.
“[Former President] Biden used to say he was a pilot, he was a truck driver, whatever, to whoever walked in. He wasn’t a pilot. He wasn’t much of a president, either, to be honest with you,” Trump said.
“On my first day back to the White House, I deployed the men and women of the United States military to stop the invasion on our southern border,” Trump said, describing the border now as “tight as a drum.”
The president also repeated his threat to deploy troops in Chicago.
“We can’t have cities that are troubled. And we’re sending in our National Guard, and if we need more than the National Guard, we’ll send more because we’re gonna have safe cities,” he said. “We’re not gonna have people killed in our cities, and whether people like that or not, that’s what we’re doing.”
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“And you’ve been watching what our missiles do to boats and ships and submarines,” Trump went on.
“How about the submarine? They said, ‘No, it was just fishing.’ The radical-left Democrats said, ‘Well, it was a submarine, but they were just fishing.’ Submarines don’t go fishing, do they? You know more about submarines than I do.”
Trump said the boats the U.S. bombed off the coasts of Venezuela and Colombia last month each “kill on average 25,000 people.”
“For many years, the drug cartels waged war on America and, at long last, we’re finally waging war on the cartels,” he said. “Now we’ll stop the drugs coming in by land. That’s going to be very easy.”
The president also bragged about his involvement in ending conflicts around the world, joking that his tough talk might spoil his chances of winning next year’s Nobel Peace Prize, which Takaichi nominated him to receive.
“Everybody said I should immediately get the Nobel Peace award. With that statement, that takes me out of the running.”
