President Trump visited steel country in more ways than one on Friday afternoon, where he made a speech during a celebration of a new deal hammered out by the administration.
He began his stop in the Pittsburgh, PA, area by taking a tour of the U.S. Steel facility there in West Mifflin:
The Working Man’s President. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/VMYj68tV4u
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) May 30, 2025
As part of the event, members of the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers--past and present--warmly greeted the president and presented him with a team jersey, as the crowd raucously chanted, "Here we go, Steelers!"
Pittsburgh Steelers legend and Vietnam War veteran Rocky Bleier, along with current players QB Mason Rudolph and DB Miles Killebrew, present @POTUS with a 47 Steelers jersey. ⚫️🟡🏈 pic.twitter.com/PlsiYHdp25
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Pres. Trump got down to business during his speech, stating that U.S. Steel will remain an American company, thanks to the newly minted deal with Japan's Nippon Steel for $14 billion in investments, which could create 70,000 jobs, according to the White House, as we previously wrote:
.@POTUS: "We're here today to celebrate a blockbuster agreement that will ensure this storied American company STAYS an American Company... it will keep its headquarters in the great city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where it belongs." pic.twitter.com/P29a43ansb
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Trump also spoke about one of his other major policy goals right now--passing the reconciliation bill in the U.S. Senate; he stressed the urgency for the people listening to his remarks to contact their senators about the Big, Beautiful Bill:
CALL YOUR SENATORS AND GET THE BILL PASSED!🚨
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"The Democrats are voting for the largest, highest tax hike in history, I've never heard of it before." - @POTUS pic.twitter.com/iDwOvB8pWB
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Trump announced that tariffs on imported steel will climb next week, to double the current 25 percent:
🚨 BREAKING: @POTUS announces that next week, tariffs on steel imports will double to 50% — "which will even further secure the steel industry in the United States." pic.twitter.com/AwOSQ380pn
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 30, 2025
He also shared a dirty little secret about the Democrat Party, which took many of these workers and their steelworker forefathers for granted over the years and "sold [them] out":
.@POTUS: "The men and women here today, they work every day to keep America powerful and strong. And for decades, you watched as one globalist politician after the next sold you out... but now, you finally have a president who's working for you and fighting for you." pic.twitter.com/nwVnCElr46
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 30, 2025
No need to take Pres. Trump's word for it, though. Just watch this telling video clip below, from local news showing Clairton, PA, residents reacting to the U.S. Steel deal with the Japanese company. Listen to the words they use to describe how it will turn around the industry--and revive jobs that they counted as lost forever for their families and neighbors.
Watch:
Clairton, Pennsylvania residents react to the massive deal between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel:
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"My father, my brothers — everybody worked at the steel mill... bringing it back is brilliant."
"I'm glad that they have it open for our children now." pic.twitter.com/zmHkePNEE9
Music to those residents' and workers' ears--after the roller coasters of plants across America being announced as "closing and not closing," as the president said--is that the company promises greater stability, including a bonus:
.@POTUS: “Every U.S. Steel worker will soon receive a well-deserved $5,000 bonus.” 🔥‼️🚨
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 30, 2025
pic.twitter.com/BcEC3xOwhK
Plant Manager Don German spoke for many of the people who work there when he thanked Trump for helping shepherd the deal between the two steel titans:
U.S. Steel Irvin Works Plant Manager Don German: "I'm a first-generation U.S. Steel worker ... I thank you from the bottom of my heart." pic.twitter.com/0HYo8h27RI
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 30, 2025
Near the close of his speech, President Trump praised the commonwealth of Pennsylvania for all it has done to protect and prosper our nation in its times of turmoil--and now, America will "again...put Pennsylvania steel into the backbone of America like never before."
.@POTUS HAS PITTSBURGH PRIDE! 👏
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 30, 2025
"The workers of this region...built this country from Pittsburgh, to Pottstown, to Bethlehem, to Hopewell, and from Washington County to right here in West. Mifflin...
...The foundries and blast furnaces of PA have smashed foreign armies,… pic.twitter.com/iLYqFe3DrB
No explanation needed for including this clip--the Trump Dance makes an appearance in the Keystone State:
It wouldn't be a Trump Rally without the TRUMP DANCE! 😂🇺🇸👏🕺🔥 pic.twitter.com/nW3gHJCqTs
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 30, 2025
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