Trump: “World’s largest air show will be held in Florida within two years”

U.S. President Donald Trump announced on the 6th (local time) that he would hold the world's largest air show in Florida during his term, which runs until 2028.

In a speech at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Kennedy Space Center in Florida that day, President Trump said, "This very place will soon become the best place for demonstrations of aerospace technology in the world," and "We will host the world's largest air show within two years."

"Next year you'll see a much bigger building, and in the next few years you'll see the largest air show you'll ever see anywhere in the world," Trump said. "No other show will even compare."

“The former space shuttle landing facility will be transformed into a 1,900-acre (approximately 7.7 ㎢) event venue,” he explained. “It will attract hundreds of thousands of visitors every year, create billions of dollars in economic ripple effects, and become a place where contracts worth hundreds of billions of dollars are signed.”

President Trump said that the Kennedy Space Center is "the place where Alan Shepard (the first American astronaut) became the first American to ascend into space on a pillar of fire" and "the place where Saturn 5, the largest rocket ever built by mankind, broke through the Earth's gravity and raced toward the stars."

“It is where the space shuttle first soared into the sky, and where the heroes of Apollo 11 embarked on their mission to plant our great American flag on the moon,” he recalled.

At the same time, during his first administration, he "signed an order establishing the Artemis (moon exploration) program and instructed NASA to send American astronauts back to the moon and then advance to Mars," and emphasized that during his second administration, "Artemis 2 rewrote history by flying around the moon for the first time in over 50 years."

During his speech, President Trump mentioned the results of the midterm election held on the 3rd and claimed, "My name was not on the ballot," and "If our names had been on the ballot, we would have won (the election)."

He also said about the war with Iran, which he pointed out as a defeat in the midterm elections, "If I had let them have nuclear weapons, Israel would not have existed. Israel would have completely disappeared from the face of the earth, and the Middle East would not have existed."