US President Donald Trump speaks during an executive order signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025.

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday an airplane flight costs $2 or “nothing” while proposing travel alternatives to the high-speed rail under construction in California. (Watch the video below.)

“We’re gonna start a big investigation on that because it’s — I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said of the over-budget project. “Nobody has ever seen anything like it. The worst overruns that there have ever been in the history of our country. And it wasn’t even necessary. I would have said, ‘You don’t buy it.’ You take an airplane — it costs you $2. It costs you nothing.”

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" You take an airplane, it costs you 2 dollars." pic.twitter.com/nLjkuIyD0O

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