President Trump Speech at Fincantieri Marinette Marine Shipyard
– Video and Transcript…
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Earlier today President toured Fincantieri Marine shipyard and delivered remarks about the historic $5 billion dollar contract the Administration recently granted Fincantieri Marinette Marine. This is the first visit by a sitting President to the city of Marinette, Wisconsin.
Fincantieri Marinette Marine is a United States subsidiary of Italian enterprise Fincantieri, one of the world’s largest shipbuilders, the shipyard was established in 1942 to meet America’s growing demand for naval construction.
The Trump Administration’s contract to build up to ten new guided missile frigates worth nearly $5.5 billion, will secure the future of the shipyard. Fincantieri plans to invest $130 million in upgrades to the facility, add approximately 1,000 jobs and projects that the investment will create 15,000 additional jobs in the Wisconsin and Michigan supply chains.
For more than 75 years, the workers of this shipyard have built some 1,500 of the finest and most fearsome vessels ever to sail. You’ve kept our sailors safe and our Navy strong. Every single day you prove that American workers are the best in the world and now you’re going to do things like you’ve never done before.
Moments ago, I walked the length of the majestic freedom-class combat ship that many of you have been pouring your hearts and souls out for over a year. Soon, that ship will be commissioned into the most powerful fleet in human history. We’re building up the Navy. We’ll have 350 ships. It was actually down to a level which was — World War One — that’s a long time ago, isn’t it? World War One. We’re building it up very rapidly. It’s the United States Navy. It’ll be bigger and stronger than it ever was before. Everywhere it goes, our allies and enemies alike will know the strength and pride that symbolizes that name USS — and there it is — Marinette. Proud of it. It’s great (Applause.)
—I want to thank the leadership team of Fincantieri Marinette Marine for welcoming us to this incredible place. It’s truly an incredible place. And now the world is watching because you’re here, not because I’m here — because you’re here. But the world is watching you. Including, I want to thank Jan Allman, Dario Deste, and Admiral — Vice Admiral Rick Hunt. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Great job. Thank you. (Applause.)
—Thanks also to Lockheed Martin Executive Vice President Stephanie Hill. Thank you, Stephanie. Great job. (Applause.)
—We’re pleased to be joined as well by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, a legend on Wall Street. And he’s putting his magic to work. Our economy is coming back at a level that nobody ever imagined possible. We’re doing great. We’re doing great. (Applause.)
—And remember, as I say all the time, because we want say this in front of the media — there they are. Look at all those people — the fake news. (Applause.)
—We have the greatest — (applause) — we have the greatest testing program in the world. We’ve developed it over a period of time. And we’re up to almost 30 million tests. That means we’re going to have more cases. If we didn’t want to test, or if we didn’t test, we wouldn’t have cases. But we have cases because we test. Deaths are down. We have one of the lowest mortality rates.
—We’ve done an incredible, historic job. And I want the people working on it — and not me — but I want all of those people in the task force that have done such a great job on the testing, on the ventilators — we’re now making thousands of ventilators a week. When we started, we weren’t making ventilators. We didn’t have them and other people didn’t have them. We had very few.
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