Trump Discusses the U.S./Ukraine Mineral Deal: ‘This Puts Us in Good Shape’

Reporter: “How much money is the U.S. going to put into the fund that is being created today, and how does this provide long-term security for Ukraine?”
Trump: “Well, we don’t know exactly how much because we’re going to be putting some money in a fund that we’re going to get from the raw earth that we’re going to be taking and sharing in terms of revenue. So it’s going to be a lot of money will be made from the sale and from the use of raw earth. And as you know, our country doesn’t have much raw earth. We have a lot of oil and gas, but we don’t have a lot of the raw earth. And what we do have is protected by the environmentalists, but that could be unprotected. But still, it’s not very much. They have among the best in the world in terms of raw earth. So we’re going to be using that, taking it, using it for all of the things we do, including AI and including weapons and the military. And it’s really going to very much satisfy our needs. So something that just worked out really well. We have a lot of oil and we have a lot of gas. We have a lot, but we don’t have raw earth. So this — this has just about every component of the raw earth that we need for computers, for all of the things we do. This puts us in great shape.”