Ladies and gentlemen, the 45th and 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.

And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that fight to me,

and I gladly stand up next to you and they fed her still today

because there ain't no doubt I love this land.

God bless the USA. Thank you very much everybody.

What a great song that is, but we'll cut it a little short because we have some business to discuss.

What a group of smart ones we have in front of me today. That's about as good as

comes up here, the brain power. The greatest power of them all, the brain power. Well, I'm thrilled

to be here with so many tech leaders and luminaries as we take historic action to re-assert the

future which belongs to America.

Always has belonged to America. We just lost sight of it on occasion.

And I just want to start by stating that we've just concluded our big trade deal with Japan and numerous other countries in addition, as you know.

But on the Japan deal, because it was literally just signed, letter was just signed, it gives

us a sort of signing bonus or bring it into sports talk, a signing bonus. Like you have signing bonuses too, I understand. Getting a lot of signing bonus or bring it into sports talk a signing bonus like you have signing bonuses

too i understand getting a lot of money 100 million that's not bad but that's uh not as good as the

signing bonus we got we got a 550 billion dollar signing bonus for the country.

We had the tariff at 25%, as you know, we had a tariff at 25%.

And this was, these are great people that we negotiated with, but we agreed to reduce it to 15 based on the fact that Japan has agreed

for the first time ever to open up its country to trade so that all of our American businesses

and business geniuses, including many in this room, can go out and do business openly and freely

in Japan, a very rich and prosperous and profitable

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