Trump Takes Credit For Plant Announced 5 Years Before Presidency

PITTSBURGH, PA - President Donald Trump gave a speech at a petrochemical plant under construction northwest of Pittsburgh Tuesday in which he took credit for the $6 billion facility first announced in 2012 - five years before he became president.

"This never would have happened without me, without us," Trump said at the Royal Dutch Shell ethylene cracker plant in Potter Township, Beaver County.

"Remember that, and remember that Pennsylvania has the best numbers they've ever had in the history of the state. That's for a very good reason. You know what that reason is? Hello, here I am."

Trump toured the plant with Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Environmental Protection Agency head Andrew Wheeler. The plant will take ethane from natural gas and, using extreme heat will "crack" it into ethylene - a petrochemical used in plastics and other synthetics.

Trump said the project was dependent on "powerful, clean natural gas. And when the wind stops blowing it doesn't make a difference, does it? Unlike those big windmills that destroy everybody's property values and kill all the birds."

More than 100 people gathered at the Beaver County Courthouse during the president's visit to protest his appearance and the cracker plant.

You can watch the president's entire remarks here: