Week 13 Wins: President Trump’s Relentless Pursuit of Prosperity, Opportunity

Whitehouse.gov ^ | April 18, 2025 | The White House

[SoConPubbie]

Another week of successes for the American people is in the books as President Donald J. Trump continues to deliver on his promises.

Here is a non-comprehensive list of wins in week 13:

• Americans continued to see early results of President Trump’s commitment to American manufacturing and job growth.
  • Abbott Laboratories announced it will spend $500 million on its Illinois and Texas facilities.
  • NVIDIA announced it will manufacture its AI supercomputers entirely in the U.S. as part of its pledge to produce $500 billion of AI infrastructure in the U.S. over the next four years.
  • Honda Motor Co. announced plans to shift production of the Civic from Japan to the U.S. amid plans to boost its U.S. production by up to 30% in the next several years.
  • Ellwood Group – a small manufacturer of forged steel, nickel and aluminum products – announced a sales increase of 35% quarter-over-quarter following President Trump’s steel tariffs.

• President Trump continued to secure our border and rid our communities of illegal immigrant criminals.
  • U.S. Border Patrol recorded the fewest illegal crossings at the southwest border on record in March – down 94% lower over last March.Violent terrorist gang members and criminal illegal immigrants continued to be deported to El Salvador.
  • In just the past several days, ICE arrested a host of depraved criminal illegal immigrants, including a convicted rapist in Brooklyn, a convicted murder in Los Angeles, and a convicted arsonist in Virginia.

• President Trump continued to pursue peace through strength around the world.
  • The Trump administration secured the release of an America missionary held in Tunisia for 13 months.
  • The Trump Administration directed additional successful airstrikes against Houthi terrorists.

• President Trump signed an order aimed at stopping illegal immigrants and other ineligible individuals from obtaining benefits under the Social Security Act and enhancing investigations into fraud.

• President Trump took executive action to expand on the historic efforts of his first term to lower prescription drug prices — delivering lower prices for Medicare, providing massive discounts on lifesaving medications, like insulin, for low-income and uninsured Americans, and helping states save millions on prescription drug costs.

• President Trump opened the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument to commercial fishing, undoing a nonsensical Biden-era ban and boosting the economy of American Samoa and other Pacific islands.

• President Trump signed an executive order to restore American seafood competitiveness by reducing regulatory burdens, combating unfair foreign trade practices, and enhancing domestic seafood production and exports.

• President Trump took additional action to ensure government remains accountable to the taxpayers who fund it.
  • President Trump signed a memorandum to ensure government is leveraging modern technology to effectively and efficiently conduct environmental reviews and evaluate permits.
  • President Trump signed an executive order to enforce existing law requiring the federal government to utilize the competitive marketplace and the innovations of private enterprise to provide better, more-cost-effective services to taxpayers.
  • President Trump rescinded two longstanding presidential actions that unnecessarily restricted where federal agencies could site their facilities.
  • President Trump signed an executive order to dramatically simplify and streamline the federal procurement process.

• President Trump signed an executive order launching an investigation into the national security risks posed by U.S. reliance on imported processed critical minerals and their derivative products.

• The Department of Justice announced a civil lawsuit against the Maine Department of Education over their consistent and willful refusal to protect women and girls in sports and other private spaces.

• The Department of the Treasury continued its crackdown on Chinese facilitation of Iranian oil exports, sanctioning various Chinese companies purchasing from, and providing vessels for, Iran’s shadow fleet.

• The Department of the Interior announced the emergency withdrawal and transfer of jurisdiction of nearly 110,000 acres of federal land along the southern border to support operations in border security.

• The Trump Administration’s joint task force on Title IX launched an investigation into the University of Maryland over allowing a male athlete to compete in women’s fencing and use women’s-only intimate facilities, and launched an investigation into the University of Maryland and Wagner college for penalizing a female athlete for refusing to compete against a male.

• Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released records on the government’s investigation into the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

• The Department of State canceled 139 grants worth $214 million, including wasteful programs like “Building the Migrant Domestic Worker-Led Movement” in Lebanon or “Get the Trolls Out!” in the United Kingdom.

• The Department of State scrapped its Global Engagement Center, which was at the center of U.S. government-sponsored censorship and media manipulation.

• The Department of Health and Human Services launched new studies on the link between environmental toxins and autism.

• Institutions across the country continued to dissolve their divisive “diversity, equity, and inclusion” programming in response to President Trump’s executive order.
  • James Madison University ended its DEI programming.
  • Ball State University announced it will end its DEI programming.
  • Rochester Community School District in Michigan eliminated its DEI director position.

[BigFreakinToad]

All I see is Mr. Trump wrecking my retirement account

[Magnum44]

You signed up in 2023 and you have no homepage description. You have been complaining about what ‘Trump has done’ to your retirement account. How old are you? Are you retired or just saving for retirement? Would you like to tell us how long you have been investing, and by dollars or percentage, how much you are down, and how long before you actually draw on those funds?

Sorry if you think my questions are out of line, but I think your complaint needs to be better founded. All of us are down with respect to last year. But we are still up more than 10% per year for the last 9 years. In January of 2016, the Dow was just below 17,000. Thats a ‘boom’ market. If you are investing for retirement or anything, you look long term, and you start early if you are smart.

[calljack]

You cannot look back at any dip in history and say it was a mistake to buy the dip. It does not exist.

[calljack]

You need to look with better eyes.

[BigFreakinToad]

I’m about to retire, I may not be able to now. Also, while you may value how long someone has been here, it doesn’t mean squat to me. Some of FR seems to think with time here, you get some special right or privilege. Guess what? it doesn’t. I can say, feel, think whatever I like. I voted for Trump, but unlike you, it seems, I don’t walk lock step with anyone. So FO with your comment and have a peachy day.

[BigFreakinToad]

I assure you, I see just fine.

[BigFreakinToad]

If you have disposable income to invest in the dip, then you are fine. I don’t. I rely on what will be. Since I’m about to retire, I do not need this instability. Trump screwing with the tariffs doesn’t hurt him or the DC crowd, it hurts the little guy, the small time investor. Would we be in worse shape if Harris was in, damn right we would be. All I can see now is a lose-lose.

[Magnum44]

Like I said, we are all down. But if fixing the country is the result, its a small cost to pay.

I didnt set out to make you angry, and I wasnt judging you my your short time here. I was giving you the opportunity to explain. Blank pages dont help, but certainly your right to remain anonymous.

So explain and maybe we can understand. How old are you? If your are 60 or below and wanting to retire, no sympathy from me. I am still working hard at 63. If you are older, then ok, how much have you saved up and what percentage is in the market? Whats your SS income? Do you have defined benefit retirement? How long did you plan for your retirement nest egg to keep you in retirement? 10 years, 20, 30?

[calljack]

If you were that close to retirement why was your risk profile so vulnerable to short term market movements? Your right. You would be worse off under Harris so what are you bitching about?

[Magnum44]

I do not need this instability. Trump screwing with the tariffs ...

When has the market gone more than 10 years without a dip? And you are blaming Trump when the market was over inflated and due a correction for all those Biden years? This was coming and anyone could see it, and not from tariffs. Thats just the excuse.

[Mr. Jeeves]

You cannot look back at any dip in history and say it was a mistake to buy the dip.

Well, people who bought the 1929 dip too early - before the 1932 bottom - ended up needing 27 years to get back to even.

You can certainly buy a dip way too early. But anybody nearing retirement should have been transitioning into fixed income long before now.

[Magnum44]

anybody nearing retirement should have been transitioning into fixed income long before now

If you are not willing to take the risk, this is true.

[BigFreakinToad]

The last year of Biden’s term I made some money in the market. I expect things to figure out eventually, but eventually isn’t something that to be retired people like.

[palmer]

Since I’m about to retire, I do not need this instability.

Since you are about to retire you need a strong market for the next 10 years. Not only will Trump (and his successor) do that, he is creating a strong market for a year from now by standing firm on tariffs and forcing the market down faster.

The quicker the fall, the quicker and stronger the rise. See 2020 for the most recent example: https://g.co/finance/.DJI:INDEXDJX?window=MAX The theory is that a rapid drop gets rid of the weak hands. The strong hands remain and carry the market to new highs. Another way to look at it is that a frothy bubble of tech momentum stocks is a shaky foundation for the long term. Instead we'll have new US manufacturing stocks instead of the made in China fake manufacturers.

[palmer]

Well, people who bought the 1929 dip too early - before the 1932 bottom - ended up needing 27 years to get back to even.

The longer the bear market, the longer the recovery. That's why Trump's insta-bear market is so promising. By standing firm and driving the market down to as low as possible now he will get a faster and stronger recovery.

[Gary from Dayton]

“I’m about to retire, I may not be able to now.”

I would gladly work 3-5 more years if it means the return of American industrial might and prosperity. My daughters’ future depends on us getting this right.
However, I don’t believe I will need to work beyond my retirement age because the market will be just fine.

[Frank Drebin]

Anyone who was paying attention to Trump and then voted for him knew this was coming and what his plan was. He’s been talking about tariffs for literally 40 years...

[BigFreakinToad]

I agree with the idea, things should be made here. Problem is, that is long term and things will flip in 2 years.

[BigFreakinToad]

Yeah my financial planner tells me the same thing, I just like to b!tch about it