WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump shared his top three accomplishments of his first year back in office in response to a question from The Epoch Times.
“I think the building of a really powerful military has been a great achievement, and that would include the Venezuela thing,” Trump said during a White House press briefing on Jan. 20 that ran for more than 1 hour and 40 minutes.
“That would include the attack on Iran and the wiping out of the nuclear threat. I think that’s been really amazing what we’ve done militarily.”
Additionally, Trump touted economic investments coming into the United States.
“I think what we’ve done in business has been incredible. We have $18 trillion coming in. Plants are being built all over. Thousands of plants are being built all over the country,” he said.
These investments include companies such as Meta and Apple, at $600 billion each, NVIDIA at $500 billion, Micron at $200 billion, and Amazon at $100 billion. They also consist of countries, such as the United Arab Emirates putting in $1.4 trillion, Qatar with $1.2 trillion, Japan at $1 trillion, Saudi Arabia with $600 billion, India at $500 billion, and South Korea with $450 billion.
Finally, Trump stated that lowering drug prices by using the most favored nation status was also a major accomplishment. Under most favored nation principles, a country agrees to pay the prices that other countries pay. For example, if a drug in the United States is $100 but costs $50 in the United Kingdom, the price in the United States would be the same as the UK.
The president said that his tariffs played a role in getting those prices.
“I think that most favored nations for drugs is something that nobody thought they’d be able to get,” he said.
“Tariffs helped me there because the nations would have never gone along with it if I wasn’t able to say, ‘If you don’t go along with it, we’re going to put a 10 or 15 or 20 percent tariff on your nation,’” Trump continued. “And they went along and our drug prices are going to come down at numbers never even seen before, never even thought possible before.”