President Discusses Swiss Watches, Interest Rates and Trade Independence

If we decided not to buy watches from Switzerland, it wouldn't be elite anymore, and we would save about forty billion dollars.

Uh, we can do all, do all of that, but I like to keep things on an even keel, and we're doing so well that I don't wanna do that.

But our interest rate should be the lowest.

We should pay lower than any other country.

Uh, the lowest rate right now is Switzerland, and as I said, we have a... We contribute to Switzerland billions and billions of dollars. And we don't have to. We don't have to.

We contribute billions and billions of dollars to Mexico, to Canada, to many countries. I don't like to name them, but, you know, we don't need anything that they have. We have all the fuel we need.

We have all the energy, we have all the lumber, we have all the everything.

We don't need anything from many of these countries.

There are some countries we need, but in a little while, we won't need anything from anybody.

Mr. President. As an example, we're building- Mr. President.

We're building right now. Right now, we're building...

We have building, uh, Eli Lilly, Merck