Oh, the choice. You have chairs like I say, you've been staying *** hell of *** long time. You know how many chairs there? Well, please sit down. You've you probably heard twice already. Everything I'm gonna say. But I want to say by the way, I drove all three of these vehicles in other places on the back lawn of the white house. There's still tire marks. Anyway, it's great to be back to the auto show and I want to thank you Ryan for that introduction. And I say to your wife child, no purgatory for you. Straight to heaven. Being married to Ryan. I'll tell you Governor Whitner, thank you for the invitation today. Where's the gun? There you go go. My mother would say, God love you dear, you're the best. You're the best. And that short guy next to you on your right. I don't know man, get up here Lieutenant Governor and I shouldn't do this. You're gonna take *** long time. But you got the best mayor in the United States America right here in doug. He had to spend more time with me. Never thought during the, during the last and not last two ministrations ago we're sitting one day in the oval office. I swear to God and President Obama turned me and said, joe go fix Detroit. Oh, no problem. None. And uh, I put my hand. I put myself in the hands of your mayor and I know every single neighborhood of most homes in your state, in your city. But anyway, thanks mike. You're *** good friend and so many other people that are here. I guess you heard most everybody else speak so far. My colleagues in the Senate, the House, if you've heard from Commander Dingle, um, I'll tell you what, I don't screw around whatever she says I do. I just, and by the way, everyone will tell you she's over here. Mr President. No, but guess what? She's always right. Debbie, I love you. Thank you. Debbie is like, my sister just tells me what to do and usually she's right. So Anyway, I want to thank everybody for being look and Mike. Thanks *** lot for *** passport in the city. Are infrastructure law by the way, as we get off the airport today. You know, and this is not what this is about. We're investing $80 million $80 million. Everything from the restrooms and the stations. *** little bit like the governor's doing, fixing all your roads and everything else around here. But any rate, Look. Um, and my friend Ray curry is here, Ray. There you are. As the saying goes in claimant, the city I moved to in Delaware when I was in third grade, uh, UAW- Brung me to the dance. And I got elected in 1972 as *** 29 year old kid, the United States Senate. And uh, and it's because we used to have the highest percentage of auto workers of any state in the nation higher than here because we had such *** small population and we had about 14% of our entire population was with with auto workers. We had the largest Chrysler plan outside of Detroit outside and we had the largest GM plan and we had an awful lot of carriers as well. So anyway, I want to thank you all and I also want to thank the C. E. O. S of all the major auto companies are here today for leading the way they've stepped up. You know, you all know, I'm *** car guy, I'm here because the auto show and the vehicle said, give me so many reasons to be optimistic about the future and I really mean it just looking at them and driving them. They just give me *** sense of optimism. Although I like the speed two and And for most of the last century we lead the world despite significant margin and because we invested in our people, we invested in ourselves and something went wrong along the way here. Something went wrong. We risk losing the edge of the nation and China and the rest of the world are catching up. We used to invest almost 2% of our entire GDP and research and development now .7% and the rest of the world's catching but not anymore. Now we're choosing to build *** better America America that's confronting the climate crisis with America's workers leading the way. We're rebuilding an economy and *** clean energy economy and we're doing it from the bottom up of the middle out. I'm so tired of trickle down. I can't stand it by the way, remember when the middle class grows, the middle class grows, everybody does well, the poor of the way up and the wealthy do very well. And by the way, don't forget middle class build America and unions built the middle class. That's *** fact, nowhere is that more evident than right here in michigan where you're building the future of the electric vehicle. We're bringing back U. S. Manufacturing jobs, 680,000 jobs just since I took office, good paying jobs, union jobs, middle class jobs jobs to give you *** sense of dignity and *** fair shot. My dad, you said all I want just *** little bit of breathing room. Just *** family should have just *** little bit of breathing room and be treated with dignity. I used to be uh, used to be that to buy an electric car. You had to make all sorts of compromises, but not now. Thanks to american ingenuity, american engineers, american auto workers. It's all changing today. If you want an electric vehicle with *** long range, you can buy one made in America If you want one that charges quickly by America, you want one that's fast in the quarter mile by American. So by the way, while we're here in Detroit building in America, we're making it easier for folks at home to buy it here in America companies have announced new investments in more than $36 billion $48 billion us. We're just getting started. I signed into law the inflation reduction act. It gives tax credits to new electric vehicles, fuel cell vehicles made in America for the first time you get *** tax credit if you buy *** used electric vehicle, that's all coming. And part of the infrastructure law, we're investing $7.5 billion to build electric vehicle charging stations all across America. So today I'm pleased to announce we're approving funding for the 1st 35 states, including Michigan to build their own electric charging infrastructure throughout their state. And y'all are gonna be part Part of *** network of 500,000 charging stations, 500,000 throughout the country installed by the eye. W boy. Oh, *** special thanks to for the last election. Look look folks, you know, the great american road trip is gonna be fully electrified. Whether you're driving coast to coast along I 10 or on I 75 here in michigan charging stations will be up and easy to find as gas stations are now, we're also going to invest $7 billion to make american car companies and have the batteries and other critical materials they need. The auto companies like ford GM still anus, I still have, I still inclined to say that other word. Chrysler. My dad worked for them for *** while. Our all our partners here, they made commitments. We're having investing billions of dollars in themselves to go electorate and we're lucky to have the most skilled auto workers in the world. And that's not hyperbole. The single most skilled auto workers in America are right here today. Um, W I'm not joking. You know what I tell people when I tell business and I'm not joking whether I'm speaking to the chamber of Commerce and the business roundtable learning the major organizations. Why am I so pro union? They don't give you the credit. The american people don't understand for you to get to be, go through the apprentice program and other trade. You got four or five years like going to college, you're getting paid *** little bit, not *** lot, but you're working like hell before you get certified and it's cheaper long term to hire you because you do it the best it lasts the longest and in fact you do it with everybody. I really mean it. And by the way, we don't tell people that people don't know that neighborhoods I come from. They know it, but they don't know that it's not that they're mean about, they just don't understand like one day you show up and you gotta trade, man, you're all set, but you work like the devil to get there and your work product shows. I recently signed the chips act, chips and science act investing billions of dollars in research and development workforce training, manufacturing incentives to bring semiconductor manufacturing back to America. We invented that little computer chip we invented here in the United States of America. We don't have to rely on other countries to power smartphones, washing machines, automobiles and so much more. Last week I was in Ohio to break ground on *** multi billion dollar semiconductor manufacturing plant and Intel 7000 construction jobs by the way, Davis Macon wage nothing less. And folks, 3000 full time jobs making an average of $135,000 *** year and you don't need *** college degree for all those jobs, skilled workers. So folks all told my administration is investing more than 100 and $35 billion to advance America's electric vehicle future. Our infrastructure law is also helping to make it in America and win the economic race of the 21st century. Once in *** generation investment on our nation's roads, bridges, railroads, ports, airports, lead, free water systems, high speed internet. It's the biggest investment american infrastructure since President Eisenhower's Interstate highway system. It's *** little bit like what your governor does, filming all those potholes and building all those roads. No, you came through and you said you're gonna do it. You guys did it. And folks look, we've awarded $25 million upgrade two miles of michigan avenue connecting downtown in cork town Detroit. Well that's because of the leadership of the mayor and the governor. You all know the neighborhood where the tigers used to play, you know on the corner at Michigan and Trumbull. Well, I'll tell you what this fund is gonna help restore michigan avenue in the former glory to make improvements in the future as well. And folks for the governor's leadership, we're spending $1 billion.01 billion dollars to clean up and restore areas around the lakes including the Detroit River, Kalamazoo River, Rogue River as well as torch lake. And that goes to your folks sitting here right here in front of me and there are big deals that's going to make *** significant impact on the economy of this state and by the way, the entire Great Lakes system really is, I don't know people, I wish I had time. Well, I don't want to take your time. But there's so much to explain that people would, when they go, whoa, I didn't know would do that. But you see these two ladies sitting in the front here don't get in their way because they want to make sure that gets done. And we got *** Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Energy and Secretary who all are with us and they want to make sure it gets done to folks. Look when you see these big projects in your hometowns, Cranes going up shovels in the ground workers with hard hats on. I want you to feel the way I feel and I really mean it. Pride, pride and what we can do when we do it together. There's nothing we can't do. Working with so many of you here today. My economic agenda has ignited historic manufacturing boom here in America. Where is it written that says we can't be the manufacturing hub of the world. Where is that written? But we are now we're way far away. What happened? Where does it say the most advanced nation in the world can't, by the way we're going to that. But no, I know many of you watching at home or like the folks I grew up with in Scranton and Claymont Delaware, you feel left out left behind in an economy and industry that's rapidly changing. You wonder where's my place going to be in that economy? I understand I really do one of the reasons why my dad moved from Scranton when cole died. Everything died had to find new ways to do learn new skills, new work well. But hear me, we're gonna leave nobody behind. We're gonna be working with companies community Colleges Technical Schools union led apprenticeship training program to make sure american workers are prepared to compete and out compete, anybody in the world and I'm not joking, I am not joking. Earlier this month I announced *** $52 million grant for the american rescue plan. That's *** partnership right here in Detroit including the big three united auto workers to train workers and upgrade factories for electric vehicle revolution for example, just like it used to be building carburetors can be doing that much anymore with the electric vehicles but we're gonna have to build an awful lot of vehicle batteries and the first people to get those jobs, the first people to train for those jobs that people will be able to do those jobs, anybody displaced, anybody displaced. You know, I work with longshoremen back in my state and around the country and you know when we got all these new modern equipment to deal with the supply chain to speed up product coming in. Well we put all these new cranes and equipment in but I made *** deal with the, I was, I shouldn't say I made, I suggested that the business side of the that equation was anybody displaced by any modernization. They got to get the jobs to run those cranes, they got to get the jobs be trained on every new thing that was going on and the same thing's gonna happen with auto workers, anybody displaced because they're not in mind. I ran for office to build *** better America, not just to get us back to how things were before the pandemic. So we launched *** one in *** once in *** generation effort to invest in America. We're working to deliver an economy that finally works for working families. We started with the american rescue plan has taken us from economic crisis. Economic resurgence jobs are up incomes are up, People are back to work and this is *** governor who knew how to take that money and use it to keep cops, firefighters, ambulance folks. You did. Some of the governor's literally pocketed the money. They put it and reduce it. They wanted to reduce taxes with it. But you used it to keep people employed, keep schools open, keep it all running. You're *** great governor, You're *** great governor. And by the way, American manufacturing is roaring back just since I've been of office. We've already created 10 million new jobs. More jobs in that time period. Any time in American history, Unemployment rate is 3.7%, near 50% low, *** 50 year low. But there's more we can do. But the american people should have confidence that we are on the right track. We're doing all this while cutting the deficit at the same time. I used to always hear from my friends and the other team. Yeah, they spend *** lot of money and maybe some of the worst while, but they're just increasing the deficit. Guess what? First year in office, We reduced the deficit by $350 billion. Guess what? This year? This year we're on track at the end of the fiscal year to reduce the deficit by over $1 trillion dollars and we'll cut and we'll cut it by another hundreds of billions of dollars more over the next decade because of inflation reduction act. Because Medicare is going to be able to negotiate lower drug prices, mean taxpayers pay out less money. Look, these investments are also tools tools to fight against climate change, building cars with zero tailpipe pollution running out *** cleaner grid making and and inventing the technology is going to power the future. Let me close with this. When President Obama and I took office back in 2009, the auto industry was on his back. We were told, as you remember, and this was one by the way, as I said, all kidding aside. My state used to have the highest percentage of auto workers of any state in the nation. They're all gone now. It's all gone now but used to have the highest percentage. And guess what we were told when the when the automobile industry was going belly up that it would never recover. And the answer, we weren't gonna be able to sell american made cars at the same rate as we did before. We didn't listen. And this is the God's truth because the debate we had internally was and I made the case so the president, we bet on the U. ***. W. To bring it back. I swear to God you brought it back. No, I'm not joking. Think about it. The U. ***. W. Brought it back. That's what we bet on. Are betting on you again. You got *** lot of help from american engineers from american Innovation. We extended *** lifeline and we stepped up and we saved more than *** million jobs because of that work the US auto manufacturers in the position today to drive full speed ahead. I believe we can own the future of the automobile market. I believe we can own the future of manufacturing. American manufacturing is back Detroit is back. America's back and folks were proving it's never ever ever *** good bet to bet against the american people. Never, never, never we are the United States of America. United States of America. And there's literally, I mean this sincerely there's not *** damn thing. We can't do nothing, nothing, nothing if we do it together. God bless you all and may God protect our troops. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.