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RECEIPTS included: Trump wasn’t kidding when he promised $7 trillion in investments

April 17, 2025 | | Print Article

President Donald Trump’s recent announcement that he’s procured $7 trillion in incoming investments to the United States may very well have been an underestimate.

“We have, I would say, more than $7 trillion now … of investments coming in,” Trump told reporters on April 9th. “Apple is coming in for $500 billion alone. We have other companies coming in with massive numbers.”

“We have car companies that are coming in. No, we’ve never seen anything like it, maybe in the 1940s or 50s or something, but we’ve never seen anything like it,” he added.

Listen:

He wasn’t wrong.

Earlier this very week, the computer technology company Nvidia announced that it’s begun “working with its manufacturing partners to design and build factories that, for the first time, will produce NVIDIA AI supercomputers entirely in the U.S.”

“Together with leading manufacturing partners, the company has commissioned more than a million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test NVIDIA Blackwell chips in Arizona and AI supercomputers in Texas,” Nvidia announced in a press release.

The plan calls for building out $500 billion worth of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in the United States over the next four years.

Also this week, a report emerged that Honda is considering increasing its U.S. vehicle production by as much as 30 percent in the next two to three years because of Trump’s ongoing tariffs.

“Honda Motor is working on plans to relocate the production of models to the U.S. from Mexico and Canada in response to an additional 25% tariff imposed by President Donald Trump’s administration on all imported automobiles,” The Nikkei, a financial newspaper, reported.

Meanwhile, last week the Swiss drugmaker Novartis announced that it intends to spend $23 billion to build and expand 10 development facilities in the United States.

“The new sites and extensions will be built over the next five years and are expected to create more than 1,000 jobs for skilled workers like engineers and scientists, as well as another 4,000 support staff and construction jobs,” Reuters reported.

In a statement, Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan attributed the decision to the positive “regulatory environment” engendered by Trump’s presidency.

“These investments reflect the pro-innovation policy and regulatory environment in the U.S. that supports our ability to find the next medical breakthroughs for patients,” she said.

There were also announcements last month, when, for instance, the semiconductor giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) revealed that it intends to invest $100 billion more into its U.S. operation — again because of the tariffs.

“The new TSMC investments will fund three new chip fabrication plants, two advanced packaging facilities, and a new research and design center,” according to Newsweek. “This brings the company’s total investment in Phoenix, Arizona, to $165 billion – the largest foreign direct investment in U.S. history.”

Later in March, the pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson announced $55 billion worth of investments over the next four years.

“This represents a 25% increase in investment compared to the previous four years and builds upon the Company’s already elevated U.S. investment levels resulting from the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act,” the company said in a statement.

The examples go on for days and include a $500 billion investment by SoftBank, Oracle, and OpenAI, as well as shifts in production to the U.S. by Nissan, Hyundai, Prepac, and more.

What the examples don’t include are the numerous companies that have yet to fall in line with the Trump administration.

The end result either way will be trillions of dollars flowing to the United States, much of it — if not all of it — because of Trump’s policies, including his controversial tariffs.

Vivek Saxena
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