Donald J. Trump

So often, and I've been watching for many years, I've watched regulation.

I've been a victim of regulation.

A zone change that takes six years for a building in Manhattan or whatever.

But I was good at zone changes, but it took a long time.

By the time you got to zoning, the market changed.

You didn't want to build the building.

You say, well, but in some cases that made you lucky, didn't it?

And some could, not too many people understand that in this room, but in some cases, waiting for that approval as the market collapsed was a good thing, not a bad thing.

But it's time to reclaim our heritage as a nation of builders, and that's why, upon taking office, I signed a historic executive order directing that every

And this is so important.

For every new regulation, 10 old regulations must be immediately eliminated.

So we have old regulations.

But clog up the books that don't even mean anything anymore.

You know, my first term, I had more regulation cuts than any president in history times four.

And that included two term presidents where you're talking about eight years.

We had more than any other president.

And I think we may even top it this year.

We may very well be able to top it during this period of time because you're really

You are a regulation-prone group, and we're looking to get those regulations out of your way so you can use your genius.

Earlier this month, we also enacted the largest tax cuts in American history when I signed the one big, beautiful bill into law.