> Could the US pledge 20% (6000 billion) to some other country?
Of course US can do that, it can provide a temporary boost to the leader of that country. It doesn't mean anything other than that.
Qatar pledged 1 trillion dollars investment in US: https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/05/fact-sheet-pr...
Their GDP is 200B USD. EU is similar, on 200B Budget they promised 600B investment.
As you can see, %20 of GDP investment is a rookie number. People do 3x to 5x of GDP these days.
I don't know why Koreans are making fuss of it, maybe they don't get the Western politics?
I'm Korean. I really really don't know. Every day, I wake up to every new news:
- A tariff agreement signed, but then they immediately mention a different percentage (Japan)
- Korean(mostly) engineers arrested on suspicion of participating in the construction of a US factory (IIRC it is not claimed whether it's legal or not)
- H-1B visa situation
Looking at the current situation, there's no "guarantee" of tariff reductions through huge investment to US. Also there is no justification for the argument that countries that do not invest should do so as other countries do.
IMHO the situation is this: Are your actions make Trump feel good? The feeling can be induced by making him richer or boost his ego.
Those "X country will invest in US" stuff are about boosting his ego through good press. No one follows up anything, they use the "flood the zone" strategy, which doesn't allow the public to have long attention span.
Also, it appears that Trump likes numbers around $600B. Everyone is "investing" around $600B, even companies like Apple. When Mark Zuckerberg was asked what Meta invests, he threw the same number and later was caught ona hot mic asking Trump if he liked the number as he admitted that he was not prepared. So yes, just say you are investing $600B in USA thanks to Trump and smile to the cameras. Don't worry about the money, this is for boosting his ego and not about the money. Actually investing is dangerous, if it goes bad(like with factory incident) it creates problems for his campaign, helps his opponents and may hurt his ego, just do the show no need to complicate things.
If you want to do the money thing, you invest in his crypto or donate to his campaign etc.
> EU is similar, on 200B Budget they promised 600B investment.
As far as I can see, the EU 'promise' was pretty much just FDI by European companies in the US that was expected anyway; the commission even explicitly said that it could not guarantee any of this. Most 'promises' would be similar.