May 2, 2025 • 21 mins
The 'Fail' is Trump's cabinet 'shake up' this week OVER SHADOWED VP JD Vance's epic speech to Lowcountry steel workers at Nucor in Berkeley County. Here's full speech, listen now!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here, I want to thank Lee Zelden for the kind
of deduction, but most importantly, I want to thank Lee
Zelden for doing a hell of a good job at
the Environmental Protection Agency because one thing that we believe,
you know, there was this idea that happened under the
last administration that you couldn't have clean air, clean water,
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a solid environment, but also growing American industry.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
President Trump rejects that.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Idea, and he put Lee Zelden as the guy in
charge of implementing that agenda.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
We can have beautiful skies.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We can have clean air, we can have clean water.
We can also have good American manufacturing jobs. There's no
tension between those two things. Lee Zelden is the man
making it happen. Thank you, Lee. I want to thank
the great Lieutenant Governor of the State of South Carolina
event LG.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Where are you there? You are, Thank you for being here.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I want to thank Congresswoman Mace and all the state
and lawmakers and other elected officials who are joining us
here today.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
You guys have got great.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Public officials in the state of South Carolina. We're proud
of them right, they're doing a hell of a job.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Now let me just one other note of.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Thanks here, because I just got the tour of a
lifetime here at New cor Steel. So I want to
thank Leon and everyone here at this incredible facility here
New Course Steel, Berkeley for hosting us for decades. New
Core has been an engine of American industry. The products
this company and other steel makers create form the literal
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foundation of American society. And I know I speak for
many in the administration, certainly I speak for the President
when I say.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
We're grateful for that.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
We're grateful for the billions of dollars in new capital
investments New Corps has announced in just the last few months.
And most importantly, we're grateful to the steel workers at
this incredible plant. Thank you all for doing what you do,
for building America and for making America proud. Now I
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have this great speech prepared and I'm very excited to
give it. But it's also it's very windy out here,
and you see this teleprompter here, it's waving like a
beautiful American flag.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
And so we'll see.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
If I have to go off script here, it'll make everybody,
It'll make the communication staff a little bit nervous, But
I gotta tell you, you all know the reason why
I'm here. Number one is to celebrate the great steel workers.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Behind me in front of me, but.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
It's also to celebrate one hundred days of the Trump administration.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
We hit the hundred day mark and what one hundred
day market.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Was Now to me, that marker means a lot of
things for the state of South Carolina. It means a
lot of things for this plan. It means a lot
of things for America. Number one, one hundred days means
energy dominance. We have started drill baby drilling. It means
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cheaper gas, and it means America that is self reliant.
This hundred days marks a new thing in the United
States of America, so that we didn't have just a
few short months ago, secure borders in the United States
of America.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I know we're all proud about that.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It means safer streets and an American people once again
encouraged to feel pride in our great American history and
our great American values. But most importantly, one hundred days
under Donald Trump's leaderships begin marks the beginning of the
industrial renaissance in the United States.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Of America.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I believe that a golden age of American manufacturing started
one hundred days ago, and we're building it right here
at New Course Steel in South Carolina. And I want
to celebrate everybody here. I want to celebrate the work
you do. I want to celebrate the investments this business
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has made in the United States of America. I want
to celebrate the incredible things you build for the United States.
And it's funny. I got a great plant tour here,
and I went to a couple of different places, in
one of which they said, you know, if things start
to go wrong.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Press the red button.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
And I looked over at John, and I looked at Seth,
who has giving me the tour, and I said, Man,
I'm gonna cost you guys a lot of money if
the Vice President comes here and screws up and doesn't
press the red button when he's supposed to. And you
know what, the leadership of this facility told me. They said,
you know what, even if the Vice President screws up
a little bit and costs of some money, We're going
to make so much money from Donald Trump's Golden Age
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of American manufacturing that you guys will end up ahead
in the bargain, and I thought.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
That's not too bad.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Now, A lot of you may know this is a
particular meaningful stop for me as Vice President of the
United States. I've actually never had a tour of a
steel mill, even though my grandfather, the man who raised me,
worked in the steel industry. He was for forty years
a welder at Armcoast Steel in Middletown, Ohio. Now, he
was part of the Appalachian Wave of migration, the people
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who came from West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, and East Tennessee
to the rapidly growing industrial towns which had factory jobs
that promised three things.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
For their workers.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Generous wages, stable hours, and a good pension. Now, in
the wake of both World Wars, millions of Americans traveled
to towns like Middletown, Ohio in search of the same,
hoping they'd be fortunate enough to score such a role,
such a good job. Now, my Pat Ball, he was
not a proud man, but he would beam when he
(05:59):
talked about his work at the local Armco mill. I
remember that driving around with Patpaal he could name the
make and model of every single car made with Armco Steel.
I remember that as a little boy, how much how
much pride he had and what he did. And having
met a few workers here at Newcore, I hope you
all feel the exact same pride in the steel you
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produce and in the products that come out of it.
When you see bridges you drive over, or the foundations
of the buildings that our families live and work in,
when you see a lawnmower, a water heater, a kitchen
appliance in your neighbor's homes or in your home, I
hope every single one of you, you guys, and you
guys in front of me, feel a sense of pride,
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however small, because these are the products that actually make
America work. These are the products that may make our
citizens' lives better. And I hope you feel not just
pride in the work that you do, I hope you
feel a little patriotic too, because this is America's national heritage.
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It's making things from Alexander Hamilton to Henry Clay, from
Ford's auto workers to the steel workers here this very afternoon.
America has always been a nation that builds the Empire,
state building, the Hoover Dam, the Saturn five, every single
one of those great accomplishments were impossible without the might
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of American industry and yes, the hard work of American steelworkers.
But let's be honest, for a couple decades though, our
leaders forgot about that core part of American national identity.
They decided that America would no longer be a manufacturing power. Instead,
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we'd let the rest of the world make the necessary
things that we needed for our homes and for our families.
And when a nation decides it's to the industrialize, my friends,
you know what else, It stops using the intermediate goods
central to that manufacturing, the things like steel that you
all make right here in New Core.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
So we stopped making the things that we needed.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
We stopped making as many cars, we stopped making appliances,
we stopped building new homes and buildings, to the costs
of housing skyrocket.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
In our communities.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And even this company, New Core Steel, you know what
the leadership told me just a couple of short minutes ago,
that there was a West Virginia facility, a beautiful, high
tech New Core manufacturing facility making great American steel and
given workers good jobs.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
In the process.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
That steel facility, that project sat idle for years under
the Biden administration's crushing environmental regulations and environmental rules. So
when our leadership decides that Americans don't want to make anything, you.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Know what we do.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
We cost great businesses and great corporations like New Core
a lot of money, we cost great workers wages, and
we've lost a lot of people their jobs. And that
was the policy of the administration that came before us.
But I'm proud that we are now one hundred and
one days into an administration that wants to invest in you,
that wants to build the future with you. And when
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Americans see a beautiful bridge or a beautiful building, we
all want to look at it and say that was
made with American hands and built with great American steel, right,
And that is exactly what the Trump administration promises to do.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I want to say that recently we should have learned
a very hard lesson about what happens when you ship
all of your industries and all the things you need
the countries that don't like you. Now, I learned that
lesson very personally, not with steel. But I remember a
few years ago I got three little kids, and as
you know, sometimes little kids get sick and one of
my kids had near infection.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I went into a pharmacy and.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I said, hey, I've got a prescription here for amoxicillin,
and the pharmacist told me that they didn't have any amoxicillin,
a drug in some ways invented by the United States
of America. We didn't have enough of it for American children.
That's what happens when you lose the ability to make
your own stuff. You've got parents who can't get the
medicine they need.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
For their own children.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
And as we learned during the COVID pandemic, remember, you know,
this terrible virus comes. A lot of people are falling
sick with it, and we need hospital gowns, and we
need hospital masks, we need the things that are necessary
to operate an American medical facility. And it turned out
all of those supplies came from the very country that
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set the virus loose on the entire world. Remember that
those lessons, the lesson that you can't become dependent on
foreign adversary, the lesson that you've got to make your
own stuff. That is, there's a lesson that the Trump
administration has put into place in the first one hundred days.
And I'm telling you, I bring this word straight from
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the President of the United States. We're so proud of
every single one of you. We're so proud of what
you do. We're proud of the hard work you do.
You're We're proud of the beautiful products that we make
with American steel, and we are never going to allow
your job to get shipped off to a country that
hates us. We want to protect your jobs, and most importantly,
we want to protect the great work you do right
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here in South Carolina and all across the United States
of America. Now you heard, I'm sure you've heard some
criticism of the president's trade policies from people who ought
to know better. Because if you listen to the American media,
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or you listen to a lot of politicians in our
own country, they seem desperate to forget the very lessons
that made Donald J. Trump the forty fifth and forty
seventh President of the UN the United States of America.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Now they attack us when we implement.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Trade policies that do a very simple thing rebalance trade
in favor of American workers and American businesses instead of
foreign workers and foreign corporations. I've talked to people here
today who talk about expanding facilities, building new steelmaking facilities
because of the trade policies.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
That Donald J. Trump has implemented.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
And I'll ask all of you, the workers and the
corporate leadership assembled here today, a very simple question. Do
you want to ship American jobs off to the People's
Republic of China? Do you want to rely on foreign
corporations to make the things that you need in your
homes and your families need every single day. So why
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don't we rebuild America's middle class?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Why don't we.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Rebuild American manufacturing, and why don't we rebuild American industry
just like you're doing right here? And isn't it nice
to have an administration that supports.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
You for a change.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
So you know, you see these media personalities, they're pulling
their hair out.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
They're saying, well, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
You guys, you're gonna make it harder to manufacture in China.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Isn't that bad? No, it's good. It's exactly what we
want to do.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
They're saying, you're gonna make it harder for people to
bring products in from overseas and undercut the wages of
American workers.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Exactly, that's exactly what we want to do.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
They're saying, you're gonna make it harder for foreign corporations,
but you're gonna make it easier for American businesses to
build great things in America. And I say, that's exactly right.
That's not something to be sad about. That's not something
to complain about. That is something to be proud of.
And thank God, we've got an administration that's finally looking
out for American businesses and the American workers who employ them.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Ain't that right?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
So I'm here today, and I gotta tell you, it
is just it is such a personally amazing thing for
a guy who was born in Middletown, Ohio, who was
raised by a forty year welder at a steel mill,
to be able to come to this beautiful facility as
the Vice President of.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
The United States.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
And I can't help thank you. I can't help but
pinch myself, pinch myself that I get to spend the
day in beautiful South Carolina with you find people, pinch
myself that I'm the Vice President of the United States,
and pinch myself, of course, because I know that this
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country is still the place of great, big American dreams.
But it's only going to stay that country if we
fight for it, if we fight for the jobs of
the people here at this facility, if we fight to
make it easier to build upon it and to build
great things in the United States of America. I gotta
be honest with you, The American dream was not built
by people selling digital advertisements in Silicon Valley. The American
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people was built by people like you. The American dream
was built by steelmakers and auto workers and people who
work with their hands. And I think another thing we
got to do is we have to send a message,
ladies and gentlemen. I think you all know this better
than I do, but I learned a little bit today.
Now you all don't just work with your hands, You
work with your heads in amazing ways. This is an
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incredibly high tech facility. I'm sure you all are amazed
at how much you can do.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
You got about a thousand.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Workers here and they're earning great wages and doing a
great job. How much those one thousand workers can do
to build the American dream of the future, It's an
amazing thing. And so I think we got to send
messages to our young people that the most interesting work,
the work that's going to challenge your mind but also
allow you to work with your hands. Is found at
American steel mills right here at New Coort, Berkeley in
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South Carolina. You know, I was sitting down at Seth's terminal.
I thought, this guy is not a steel mill worker.
He's operating a spaceship because there's like fourteen very complicated
screens in front of me. And I felt like Homer Simpson.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I had no idea what I was gonna do.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I was like, Seth, you got to get back in
this chair or we're gonna cause some serious problems. But
what it made me realize is that technology.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
You know, technology we use this term.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
We think about it as the iPhones that we have
in our pocket or the screen that we stare at
when when a lot of our knowledge workers are going
to work. But technology is happening right here at a
steel making facility in Newcore in Berkeley.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
In South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
That's technology of the future, the great technology the future.
I don't think it's going to be people, you know,
sitting around staring at their iPhones. The technology of the
future is going to be building great things, but doing
it in a new way, doing it with new incredible facilities,
with safer facilities, with people who know again how to
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use their minds but also use their hands. And I
think that is the high tech future. You know, people criticize.
I get sick sometimes in the press they say that
Donald J.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Trump wants to bring.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Back the jobs of the past, And I don't think
anything could be further from the truth, because I again
was raised by a man who worked at a steel
mill of the past. But I guarantee if I went
to that steel mill today, it's owned by Cleveland Cliff. Sorry,
that's a competitor, but they're a good company too. We
could spread the love around. But I guarantee if I
went to that facility today, or when I go to
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this facility here in Berkeley, I don't see the steel
mill jobs of the past. I see the steel mill
jobs of the future. I see technology allowing us to
do something today that my grandfather, God love them, wasn't
doing forty years ago at Armcoast Steel in Midditout, Ohio.
And I know that's how we're going to win the future.
That's how we're gonna beat the Chinese, that's how we're
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gonna beat every single competitor. That America faces, it's gonna
be by doing great things like what you're doing here
at New Course Steal And never let anybody tell you
that this is not high tech.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
This is the.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Highest tech industry maybe that.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
And you're building the America of the future, not the
America of the past. So let me just close by saying,
my friends, I think that the great American manufacturing comeback
has become and the world has started to take notice.
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In just one hundred days, the President has attracted trillions
of dollars in commitments for new investment in America, including
some from.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
New Course Steel.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Just yesterday we saw that business investment in the first
quarter of the United States economy, business investment grew by
twenty two percent.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
That was just in a few short months. That's big number.
And we know whether with all this.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Additional investment is going to come hundreds of thousands of new,
high paying, high quality jobs.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
We're going to see new.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Jobs and artificial intelligence and deep water oil production and
chip fabrication and pharmaceutical factories, research labs, super computing facilities,
and of course in great American made steel. But the
idea is very simple and the principle is even simpler,
that we want to grow up in a country. We
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want our children to grow up in a country where
the things that they need are made by their neighbors
and not by foreigners who hate their guts, Where the
critical components of American industry are built right here in
the United States of America, not in some far flung
region in the world that we can't depend on, And
where American jobs for people who are willing to work
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hard and play by the rules, pay us solid wage,
allow you to buy a home and start a family,
and where you're proud every single day, just like my
grandfather was, of the things that you built with your hands,
but also with your minds. I hope that you all
are proud, because I am certainly proud to stand here
with great American steel workers.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
And every single day from this day forward.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
That I go out as Vice President of United States,
when I look at those tall skyscrapers or I look
at those beautiful bridges, I'm going to remember this day
and remember that you guys are building the future of
this country. I'm proud of you, We're rooting for you.
The President of the United States is going to make
your life easier every single day. We had a good
start one hundred days, But for the next thirteen hundred.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Days, President Donald J. Trump and Vice President.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Vance, we're going to be fighting for you, fighting for
your jobs, and fighting for the future that you want
to build for your families.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
God bless you all. Thank you for having me.
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here, I want to thank Lee Zelden for the kind
of deduction, but most importantly, I want to thank Lee
Zelden for doing a hell of a good job at
the Environmental Protection Agency because one thing that we believe,
you know, there was this idea that happened under the
last administration that you couldn't have clean air, clean water,
(00:27):
a solid environment, but also growing American industry.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
President Trump rejects that.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Idea, and he put Lee Zelden as the guy in
charge of implementing that agenda.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
We can have beautiful skies.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We can have clean air, we can have clean water.
We can also have good American manufacturing jobs. There's no
tension between those two things. Lee Zelden is the man
making it happen. Thank you, Lee. I want to thank
the great Lieutenant Governor of the State of South Carolina
event LG.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Where are you there? You are, Thank you for being here.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I want to thank Congresswoman Mace and all the state
and lawmakers and other elected officials who are joining us
here today.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
You guys have got great.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Public officials in the state of South Carolina. We're proud
of them right, they're doing a hell of a job.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Now let me just one other note of.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Thanks here, because I just got the tour of a
lifetime here at New cor Steel. So I want to
thank Leon and everyone here at this incredible facility here
New Course Steel, Berkeley for hosting us for decades. New
Core has been an engine of American industry. The products
this company and other steel makers create form the literal
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foundation of American society. And I know I speak for
many in the administration, certainly I speak for the President
when I say.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
We're grateful for that.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
We're grateful for the billions of dollars in new capital
investments New Corps has announced in just the last few months.
And most importantly, we're grateful to the steel workers at
this incredible plant. Thank you all for doing what you do,
for building America and for making America proud. Now I
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have this great speech prepared and I'm very excited to
give it. But it's also it's very windy out here,
and you see this teleprompter here, it's waving like a
beautiful American flag.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
And so we'll see.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
If I have to go off script here, it'll make everybody,
It'll make the communication staff a little bit nervous, But
I gotta tell you, you all know the reason why
I'm here. Number one is to celebrate the great steel workers.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Behind me in front of me, but.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
It's also to celebrate one hundred days of the Trump administration.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
We hit the hundred day mark and what one hundred
day market.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Was Now to me, that marker means a lot of
things for the state of South Carolina. It means a
lot of things for this plan. It means a lot
of things for America. Number one, one hundred days means
energy dominance. We have started drill baby drilling. It means
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cheaper gas, and it means America that is self reliant.
This hundred days marks a new thing in the United
States of America, so that we didn't have just a
few short months ago, secure borders in the United States
of America.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I know we're all proud about that.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It means safer streets and an American people once again
encouraged to feel pride in our great American history and
our great American values. But most importantly, one hundred days
under Donald Trump's leaderships begin marks the beginning of the
industrial renaissance in the United States.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Of America.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I believe that a golden age of American manufacturing started
one hundred days ago, and we're building it right here
at New Course Steel in South Carolina. And I want
to celebrate everybody here. I want to celebrate the work
you do. I want to celebrate the investments this business
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has made in the United States of America. I want
to celebrate the incredible things you build for the United States.
And it's funny. I got a great plant tour here,
and I went to a couple of different places, in
one of which they said, you know, if things start
to go wrong.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Press the red button.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
And I looked over at John, and I looked at Seth,
who has giving me the tour, and I said, Man,
I'm gonna cost you guys a lot of money if
the Vice President comes here and screws up and doesn't
press the red button when he's supposed to. And you
know what, the leadership of this facility told me. They said,
you know what, even if the Vice President screws up
a little bit and costs of some money, We're going
to make so much money from Donald Trump's Golden Age
(04:52):
of American manufacturing that you guys will end up ahead
in the bargain, and I thought.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
That's not too bad.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Now, A lot of you may know this is a
particular meaningful stop for me as Vice President of the
United States. I've actually never had a tour of a
steel mill, even though my grandfather, the man who raised me,
worked in the steel industry. He was for forty years
a welder at Armcoast Steel in Middletown, Ohio. Now, he
was part of the Appalachian Wave of migration, the people
(05:28):
who came from West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, and East Tennessee
to the rapidly growing industrial towns which had factory jobs
that promised three things.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
For their workers.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Generous wages, stable hours, and a good pension. Now, in
the wake of both World Wars, millions of Americans traveled
to towns like Middletown, Ohio in search of the same,
hoping they'd be fortunate enough to score such a role,
such a good job. Now, my Pat Ball, he was
not a proud man, but he would beam when he
(05:59):
talked about his work at the local Armco mill. I
remember that driving around with Patpaal he could name the
make and model of every single car made with Armco Steel.
I remember that as a little boy, how much how
much pride he had and what he did. And having
met a few workers here at Newcore, I hope you
all feel the exact same pride in the steel you
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produce and in the products that come out of it.
When you see bridges you drive over, or the foundations
of the buildings that our families live and work in,
when you see a lawnmower, a water heater, a kitchen
appliance in your neighbor's homes or in your home, I
hope every single one of you, you guys, and you
guys in front of me, feel a sense of pride,
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however small, because these are the products that actually make
America work. These are the products that may make our
citizens' lives better. And I hope you feel not just
pride in the work that you do, I hope you
feel a little patriotic too, because this is America's national heritage.
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It's making things from Alexander Hamilton to Henry Clay, from
Ford's auto workers to the steel workers here this very afternoon.
America has always been a nation that builds the Empire,
state building, the Hoover Dam, the Saturn five, every single
one of those great accomplishments were impossible without the might
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of American industry and yes, the hard work of American steelworkers.
But let's be honest, for a couple decades though, our
leaders forgot about that core part of American national identity.
They decided that America would no longer be a manufacturing power. Instead,
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we'd let the rest of the world make the necessary
things that we needed for our homes and for our families.
And when a nation decides it's to the industrialize, my friends,
you know what else, It stops using the intermediate goods
central to that manufacturing, the things like steel that you
all make right here in New Core.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
So we stopped making the things that we needed.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
We stopped making as many cars, we stopped making appliances,
we stopped building new homes and buildings, to the costs
of housing skyrocket.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
In our communities.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And even this company, New Core Steel, you know what
the leadership told me just a couple of short minutes ago,
that there was a West Virginia facility, a beautiful, high
tech New Core manufacturing facility making great American steel and
given workers good jobs.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
In the process.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
That steel facility, that project sat idle for years under
the Biden administration's crushing environmental regulations and environmental rules. So
when our leadership decides that Americans don't want to make anything, you.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Know what we do.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
We cost great businesses and great corporations like New Core
a lot of money, we cost great workers wages, and
we've lost a lot of people their jobs. And that
was the policy of the administration that came before us.
But I'm proud that we are now one hundred and
one days into an administration that wants to invest in you,
that wants to build the future with you. And when
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Americans see a beautiful bridge or a beautiful building, we
all want to look at it and say that was
made with American hands and built with great American steel, right,
And that is exactly what the Trump administration promises to do.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I want to say that recently we should have learned
a very hard lesson about what happens when you ship
all of your industries and all the things you need
the countries that don't like you. Now, I learned that
lesson very personally, not with steel. But I remember a
few years ago I got three little kids, and as
you know, sometimes little kids get sick and one of
my kids had near infection.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I went into a pharmacy and.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I said, hey, I've got a prescription here for amoxicillin,
and the pharmacist told me that they didn't have any amoxicillin,
a drug in some ways invented by the United States
of America. We didn't have enough of it for American children.
That's what happens when you lose the ability to make
your own stuff. You've got parents who can't get the
medicine they need.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
For their own children.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
And as we learned during the COVID pandemic, remember, you know,
this terrible virus comes. A lot of people are falling
sick with it, and we need hospital gowns, and we
need hospital masks, we need the things that are necessary
to operate an American medical facility. And it turned out
all of those supplies came from the very country that
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set the virus loose on the entire world. Remember that
those lessons, the lesson that you can't become dependent on
foreign adversary, the lesson that you've got to make your
own stuff. That is, there's a lesson that the Trump
administration has put into place in the first one hundred days.
And I'm telling you, I bring this word straight from
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the President of the United States. We're so proud of
every single one of you. We're so proud of what
you do. We're proud of the hard work you do.
You're We're proud of the beautiful products that we make
with American steel, and we are never going to allow
your job to get shipped off to a country that
hates us. We want to protect your jobs, and most importantly,
we want to protect the great work you do right
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here in South Carolina and all across the United States
of America. Now you heard, I'm sure you've heard some
criticism of the president's trade policies from people who ought
to know better. Because if you listen to the American media,
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or you listen to a lot of politicians in our
own country, they seem desperate to forget the very lessons
that made Donald J. Trump the forty fifth and forty
seventh President of the UN the United States of America.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Now they attack us when we implement.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Trade policies that do a very simple thing rebalance trade
in favor of American workers and American businesses instead of
foreign workers and foreign corporations. I've talked to people here
today who talk about expanding facilities, building new steelmaking facilities
because of the trade policies.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
That Donald J. Trump has implemented.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
And I'll ask all of you, the workers and the
corporate leadership assembled here today, a very simple question. Do
you want to ship American jobs off to the People's
Republic of China? Do you want to rely on foreign
corporations to make the things that you need in your
homes and your families need every single day. So why
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don't we rebuild America's middle class?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Why don't we.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Rebuild American manufacturing, and why don't we rebuild American industry
just like you're doing right here? And isn't it nice
to have an administration that supports.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
You for a change.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
So you know, you see these media personalities, they're pulling
their hair out.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
They're saying, well, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
You guys, you're gonna make it harder to manufacture in China.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Isn't that bad? No, it's good. It's exactly what we
want to do.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
They're saying, you're gonna make it harder for people to
bring products in from overseas and undercut the wages of
American workers.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Exactly, that's exactly what we want to do.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
They're saying, you're gonna make it harder for foreign corporations,
but you're gonna make it easier for American businesses to
build great things in America. And I say, that's exactly right.
That's not something to be sad about. That's not something
to complain about. That is something to be proud of.
And thank God, we've got an administration that's finally looking
out for American businesses and the American workers who employ them.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Ain't that right?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
So I'm here today, and I gotta tell you, it
is just it is such a personally amazing thing for
a guy who was born in Middletown, Ohio, who was
raised by a forty year welder at a steel mill,
to be able to come to this beautiful facility as
the Vice President of.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
The United States.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
And I can't help thank you. I can't help but
pinch myself, pinch myself that I get to spend the
day in beautiful South Carolina with you find people, pinch
myself that I'm the Vice President of the United States,
and pinch myself, of course, because I know that this
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country is still the place of great, big American dreams.
But it's only going to stay that country if we
fight for it, if we fight for the jobs of
the people here at this facility, if we fight to
make it easier to build upon it and to build
great things in the United States of America. I gotta
be honest with you, The American dream was not built
by people selling digital advertisements in Silicon Valley. The American
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people was built by people like you. The American dream
was built by steelmakers and auto workers and people who
work with their hands. And I think another thing we
got to do is we have to send a message,
ladies and gentlemen. I think you all know this better
than I do, but I learned a little bit today.
Now you all don't just work with your hands, You
work with your heads in amazing ways. This is an
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incredibly high tech facility. I'm sure you all are amazed
at how much you can do.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
You got about a thousand.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Workers here and they're earning great wages and doing a
great job. How much those one thousand workers can do
to build the American dream of the future, It's an
amazing thing. And so I think we got to send
messages to our young people that the most interesting work,
the work that's going to challenge your mind but also
allow you to work with your hands. Is found at
American steel mills right here at New Coort, Berkeley in
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South Carolina. You know, I was sitting down at Seth's terminal.
I thought, this guy is not a steel mill worker.
He's operating a spaceship because there's like fourteen very complicated
screens in front of me. And I felt like Homer Simpson.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I had no idea what I was gonna do.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I was like, Seth, you got to get back in
this chair or we're gonna cause some serious problems. But
what it made me realize is that technology.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
You know, technology we use this term.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
We think about it as the iPhones that we have
in our pocket or the screen that we stare at
when when a lot of our knowledge workers are going
to work. But technology is happening right here at a
steel making facility in Newcore in Berkeley.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
In South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
That's technology of the future, the great technology the future.
I don't think it's going to be people, you know,
sitting around staring at their iPhones. The technology of the
future is going to be building great things, but doing
it in a new way, doing it with new incredible facilities,
with safer facilities, with people who know again how to
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use their minds but also use their hands. And I
think that is the high tech future. You know, people criticize.
I get sick sometimes in the press they say that
Donald J.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Trump wants to bring.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Back the jobs of the past, And I don't think
anything could be further from the truth, because I again
was raised by a man who worked at a steel
mill of the past. But I guarantee if I went
to that steel mill today, it's owned by Cleveland Cliff. Sorry,
that's a competitor, but they're a good company too. We
could spread the love around. But I guarantee if I
went to that facility today, or when I go to
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this facility here in Berkeley, I don't see the steel
mill jobs of the past. I see the steel mill
jobs of the future. I see technology allowing us to
do something today that my grandfather, God love them, wasn't
doing forty years ago at Armcoast Steel in Midditout, Ohio.
And I know that's how we're going to win the future.
That's how we're gonna beat the Chinese, that's how we're
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gonna beat every single competitor. That America faces, it's gonna
be by doing great things like what you're doing here
at New Course Steal And never let anybody tell you
that this is not high tech.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
This is the.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Highest tech industry maybe that.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
And you're building the America of the future, not the
America of the past. So let me just close by saying,
my friends, I think that the great American manufacturing comeback
has become and the world has started to take notice.
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In just one hundred days, the President has attracted trillions
of dollars in commitments for new investment in America, including
some from.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
New Course Steel.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Just yesterday we saw that business investment in the first
quarter of the United States economy, business investment grew by
twenty two percent.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
That was just in a few short months. That's big number.
And we know whether with all this.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Additional investment is going to come hundreds of thousands of new,
high paying, high quality jobs.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
We're going to see new.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Jobs and artificial intelligence and deep water oil production and
chip fabrication and pharmaceutical factories, research labs, super computing facilities,
and of course in great American made steel. But the
idea is very simple and the principle is even simpler,
that we want to grow up in a country. We
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want our children to grow up in a country where
the things that they need are made by their neighbors
and not by foreigners who hate their guts, Where the
critical components of American industry are built right here in
the United States of America, not in some far flung
region in the world that we can't depend on, And
where American jobs for people who are willing to work
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hard and play by the rules, pay us solid wage,
allow you to buy a home and start a family,
and where you're proud every single day, just like my
grandfather was, of the things that you built with your hands,
but also with your minds. I hope that you all
are proud, because I am certainly proud to stand here
with great American steel workers.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
And every single day from this day forward.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
That I go out as Vice President of United States,
when I look at those tall skyscrapers or I look
at those beautiful bridges, I'm going to remember this day
and remember that you guys are building the future of
this country. I'm proud of you, We're rooting for you.
The President of the United States is going to make
your life easier every single day. We had a good
start one hundred days, But for the next thirteen hundred.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Days, President Donald J. Trump and Vice President.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Vance, we're going to be fighting for you, fighting for
your jobs, and fighting for the future that you want
to build for your families.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
God bless you all. Thank you for having me.
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