"“Some people actually think it's un-American, what I do. They say, 'You're taking their company away,'” the president said. But he sees such moves as a patriotic way to boost the economy, and if anything, he would like to do more, recounting last year's visit from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan. “I said, 'Give the country 10% ownership for free in Intel.' He said, 'You have a deal.' I said, 'Shit, I should have asked for more.'”"
"“I want to help American companies. There's nothing in it for me other than I want companies to do well.”"
"Musing about this intractable problem, the real estate president casts it in a way that's likely to blow the minds of economists and others who are concerned about how much the U.S. government now owes. Trump calculates the potential worth of natural assets like the Grand Canyon and even America's surrounding oceans. “If you put down the value of these things, it's like hundreds of trillions of dollars,” Trump said, and by that measure, “if you kept [the national debt] at $40 trillion, you're way under-levered.”"
"On the Iran war: “I can tell you one thing-they're dying to sign [a deal],” says the president. “But they make a deal, and then they send you a paper that has no relationship to the deal you made. I say, 'Are you people crazy?'”"
Trump describes taking stakes in U.S. companies as patriotic and aimed at boosting the economy. He says he wants American companies to do well and claims there is nothing in it for him beyond that outcome. He cites a past interaction with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, where he proposed giving the country 10% ownership for free and says he should have asked for more. He addresses the national debt by valuing natural assets such as the Grand Canyon and surrounding oceans, arguing that this makes the debt appear under-leveraged. He also comments on Iran, saying the other side wants to sign a deal but then sends paperwork that does not match the agreement made.
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