MSNBC just showed a clip of Howard Lutnick, US Secretary of Commerce, on Fox News [View all]

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Howard Lutnick said, and I quote, "You've heard the president talk about trillions and trillions of factories being built in America."

I did the math, interpreting "trillions and trillions" as just one trillion, and assuming that these factories are not stacked on top of each other.

Google says "The United States has a total area of approximately 3,794,083 square miles. This includes both land and water areas. The land area alone is 3,531,925 square miles."

There are 27,880,000 square feet in a square mile.

If these factories are built everywhere in the USA, even over water, with nothing else anywhere except factories and no space between them, the average area of each of these one trillion factories would be 106 square feet, equal to a square 10 feet, 3.4 inches on a side.

If these factories are built on all of the land in the USA but not over water, with nothing else anywhere except factories and no space between them, the average area of each of these one trillion factories would be 98 square feet, equal to a square 9 feet, 11 inches on a side.