Trump Touts $8 Trillion in New Investment During Meeting With Top Business Leaders

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump hosted chief executive officers and industry leaders at Cross Hall in the White House for an “Invest in America” event on April 30 to celebrate trillions of dollars in business development and manufacturing investments. “The entire Trump economic agenda is about making it easier to do business in America, to create jobs in America, to hire American workers, and to build your factories here in America, not in China, or any other country,” Trump said. The president was flanked by high-tech displays, including an Anduril drone model, emphasizing his administration’s push to rebuild American industry. More than a dozen executives on hand for the event touted their companies’ recent commitments, totaling more than $2 trillion collectively and described as historic by the Trump administration, and sought to encourage more manufacturing development projects in the United States....