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Search results for "NVIDIA is now worth more than the GDP of every country in the world except the USA and China"

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Donald Trump stated on January 21, 2026 in remarks:
In artificial intelligence, “We're leading China by a lot.”
By Loreben Tuquero• January 29, 2026
Donald Trump stated on May 08, 2025 in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press":
“We have now close to $10 trillion” in investments. “We’re talking about essentially two months.”
By Madison Czopek, Louis Jacobson• May 8, 2025
Michael Bloomberg stated on August 03, 2014 in comments on CBS' "Face the Nation":
Africa is spending "the highest percentage of their GDP on education of any part of the world."  
By Derek Tsang• August 7, 2014
Eric Cantor stated on November 14, 2011 in a news conference.:
The U.S. economy "is three times as big as China's."
By Sean Gorman• December 5, 2011
Barack Obama stated on October 01, 2012 in a campaign ad:
Says Romney invested in a firm that made goods in China that "could have been made here in America."
By Jon Greenberg• October 9, 2012
Randy Forbes stated on July 25, 2011 in an opinion column. :
"As a percentage of our gross domestic product, the defense budget remains just 3.6 percent. This figure is low by all historical standards."
By Sean Gorman• August 5, 2011
Michelle Obama stated on March 21, 2016 in an interview posted on Medium:
"Research even shows that sending more girls to school can boost an entire country’s GDP."  
By Jon Greenberg• April 29, 2016
Facebook posts stated on August 23, 2019 in a Facebook post:
"That’s 5,615 projected coal-powered plants in just 8 countries. The USA has 15 - building 0 more."  
By Amy Sherman• January 13, 2020
Michael McCaul stated on July 19, 2010 in an e-mail:
Says the federal agency in charge of Medicare and Medicaid will disburse $803 billion in benefits this year, making "it larger than all but 15 of the world's economies."
By Ciara O'Rourke• September 4, 2010
Arianna Huffington stated on July 24, 2011 in a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Most countries have no debt ceiling."
By Louis Jacobson• July 25, 2011
Rob Portman stated on January 20, 2011 in a speech to the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce:
Says the United States does not "trade as much as other developed nations."
By Stephen Koff• February 1, 2011
Donald Trump stated on March 27, 2016 in an interview with the New York Times:
"We’ve rebuilt China."
By Linda Qiu• April 4, 2016
Larry Elder stated on August 20, 2014 in comments on CNN:
"If black America were a country, it’d be the 15th wealthiest nation in the world."
By Derek Tsang• September 2, 2014
Gayle Smith stated on March 09, 2016 in a speech on Capitol Hill:
(Since 1990) "every continent has seen substantial gains, with individual incomes growing by more than a third in every region of the developing world."
By Jon Greenberg• March 24, 2016
Donald Trump stated on September 09, 2019 in a rally in Fayetteville, N.C.:
China has "had now the worst year in 57 years."
By Bill McCarthy• September 10, 2019
Rick Scott stated on January 20, 2021 in a statement given to the press:
The Paris Climate Agreement is “bad for America,” because it "does nothing to hold real polluters, like Communist China and India, accountable."
By Jon Greenberg• January 26, 2021
Donald Trump stated on December 09, 2025 in public events:
The U.S. has received promises of investments totaling $18 trillion to $22 trillion since January.
By Louis Jacobson, Nick Karmia• December 9, 2025
Rob Portman stated on July 19, 2011 in a television interview:
"We rank below Ethiopia, I'm told, in terms of our exports per capita, well below any of the other developed countries we trade with, and well below China and (South) Korea."
By Tom Feran• August 25, 2011
Donald Trump stated on March 26, 2016 in an interview with the New York Times:
"There’s a tremendous tax that we pay when we (American businesses) go into China, whereas when China sells to us there’s no tax."
By Jon Greenberg• March 30, 2016
Donald Trump stated on May 09, 2019 in remarks at the White House:
Tariffs are "paid for mostly by China, by the way, not by us."
By Louis Jacobson• May 14, 2019

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