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White House Compilation Touts 2025 Investment Deals in the USA
January 19, 2026 · The White House · 0:02:40
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What happened
The White House video, titled “ART OF THE DEAL: 2025 Investments Made in the USA,” compiles news clips reviewing the President’s 2025 deal-making. The clips state that on his Middle East trip, Saudi Arabia pledged $600 billion in U.S. investment, Qatar $1.2 trillion in economic deals, and the UAE $200 billion in commercial deals, as the coverage presented the figures. A commentator in the clips called the trip, as he put it, an unbridled success for America.
The compilation also covers a $350 billion UK tech prosperity deal announced with Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Chequers, as the clips described it; a framework with Japan’s Prime Minister on critical minerals and rare earths, with Toyota putting $10 billion into American manufacturing, as stated in the clips; and a South Korea trade deal the clips said includes a $350 billion investment into the U.S. in exchange for lower tariffs, ahead of the President’s meeting with President Xi, according to the coverage excerpted.
Why it matters
The compilation is the White House’s own year-end ledger of its investment diplomacy — the headline pledge figures it wants associated with 2025 — and preserving it with its figures attributed lets the scoreboard track pledges against later delivery.
Scoreboard watch
Flagged for the scoreboard editor: the pledge figures compiled in this White House video — $600 billion (Saudi Arabia), $1.2 trillion (Qatar), $200 billion (UAE), $350 billion (UK tech), $10 billion (Toyota) and $350 billion (South Korea) — as stated in the excerpted coverage published January 19, 2026, for checking against Commerce Department investment tracking. No verdict is given here.
Sources: The White House, “ART OF THE DEAL: 2025 Investments Made in the USA”, 2026-01-19 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-01-19). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.