President Trump Announces $200 Billion Korean Energy Investment
President Donald J. Trump's full remarks at an energy investment announcement with Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick at the White House in Washington, D.C. The President opened by saying U.S. forces have left Iraq after 23 years. He then announced that South Korea will invest up to $200 billion in American energy infrastructure under its trade agreement with the United States: eight large nuclear power plants, the Alaska LNG pipeline, and a gas-fired power plant in Texas. Senator Dan Sullivan, Secretary Lutnick, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy and others also spoke. In a question-and-answer session with reporters, the President discussed California's energy policy, gasoline and diesel prices, the war with Iran, a Supreme Court ruling on deportations to third countries, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, the renaming of artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," the Alaska Senate race, and an incident aboard a flydubai flight.