Donald J. Trump

But I want you to be successful.

And you can't have one state holding you up.

You can't have three or four states holding you up.

You can't have a state with standards that are so high that it's going to hold you up.

You have to have a federal rule and regulation.

Hopefully you'll have the right guy in this position that's going to...

that's gonna supplant the states.

If you are operating under 50 different sets of state laws, the most restrictive state

of all will be the one that rules.

So you could have a state run by a crazy governor, a governor that hates you, a governor that's not smart, or maybe a governor that's very smart, but decides that he doesn't like the industry and he can put you out of business because you're gonna have to go to that lowest common denominator.

We need one common sense federal standard that supersedes all states, supersedes everybody,

So you don't end up in litigation with 43 states at one time.

You got to go litigation free.

It's the only way.

And we also have to watch Europe, Asia, and all foreign countries so that they don't make rules and regulations that likewise make it impossible for you to do business and where you'd have to make everything in AI cater to them.

Because again, you'd have to cater to the toughest country or to the toughest state.

You can't do that because it would ruin it.

I just terminated all of the, as an example, California car emissions rules, which were a disaster, a disaster.

It cost them just billions of dollars as an industry, but thousands of dollars per car, the emission rule standard,

because they were making the production of an automobile almost impossible and at a tremendously higher cost, much more expensive than it should cost, for very little gain, for actually, in my opinion, negative gain.