At a gathering with House of Representatives from the Republican Party on Jan 27, US President Donald Trump said Chinese startup DeepSeek's technology should spur American companies to emulate the firm for coming up with a cheaper, faster method of artificial intelligence.
Trump also spoke about tariffs and TikTok during the event.
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00:00Now, we raised a lot of money, a tremendous amount, in our teletown hall.
00:15Today and over the last couple of days, I've been reading about China and some of the companies
00:20in China, one in particular, coming up with a faster method of AI and much less expensive
00:26method.
00:27And that's good, because you don't have to spend this much money.
00:29I view that as a positive, as an asset.
00:31The release of deep-seek AI from a Chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industries
00:39that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win, because we have the greatest scientists
00:44in the world.
00:45Even Chinese leadership told me that.
00:47We always have the ideas.
00:48We're always first.
00:49So I would say that's a positive.
00:52That could be very much a positive development.
00:54So instead of spending billions and billions, you'll spend less, and you'll come up with
00:59hopefully the same solution.
01:01In the very near future, we're going to be placing tariffs on foreign production of computer
01:06chips, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals to return production of these essential goods
01:11to the United States of America.
01:13The only way you'll get out of this is to build your plant.
01:17If you want to stop paying the taxes or the tariffs, you have to build your plant right
01:22here in America.
01:23That's what's going to happen at record levels.
01:25And we're going to look at pharmaceuticals, drugs.
01:28We're going to look at chips, semiconductors, and we're going to look at steel and some
01:33other industries.
01:34But I'll also be placing tariffs on steel, aluminum, and copper, and things that we need
01:39for our military.
01:40We have to bring production back to our country.
01:42You know, there was a time when we made one ship a day, and now we can't build a ship.
01:49I have a little bias toward TikTok right now.
01:51So we won youth by the largest margin, no Republican.
01:55You know, we generally don't win youth.
01:56We won by 36 points.
01:58Can you imagine that?
01:59And I think TikTok had something to do.
02:01So pardon me if I'm a little bit, I became a little bit jaded toward TikTok, but we'll
02:06see what happens.
02:07We're going to have a lot of people bidding on it.
02:10And if we can save all that voice and all the jobs, and China won't be involved.
02:15You don't want China involved.
02:16But we'll see what happens.
02:17We'll see what happens.