“I want to try and get as much as I can,” Trump told reporters at the White House during an executive order signing ceremony. “I hope I’m going to have many more cases like it.”

Trump underscored that Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, whom Trump wanted terminated earlier this month, came to the White House “under a little bit of a cloud.”

“I said, ‘I’d like you to give 10% of Intel to the United States of America, not to me, to the United States of America. And I said, if you have them as a partner, you have the United States as a partner. I think that would be a very good thing for Intel,’” Trump said. “And he thought about it and he said, ‘I like that idea very much. We have a deal.’”

Trump added that the stock market responded positively and that he would do it again if given the opportunity.

“You do have stupid people say, ‘Oh, that’s a shame.’ It’s not a shame. It’s called business,” he said. “A company like Intel, as you know, it’s had difficulty, I want them to do well. I want them to do what they do, but I want them to do well in particular.”

Earlier Monday, White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told CNBC he was “sure that at some point there’ll be more transactions, if not in this industry then other industries.”

“Well, I think this is a very, very special circumstance because of the massive amount of CHIPS Act spending that was coming in,” Hassett said. “But the president has made it clear all the way back to the campaign, he thinks that in the end, it would be great if the U.S. could start to build up a sovereign wealth fund.”

To that end, Trump took to social media Monday morning to “make deals like that for our Country all day long.”

“I love seeing their stock price go up, making the USA RICHER, AND RICHER,” he wrote. “More jobs for America!!! Who would not want to make deals like that?”

The White House announced last week that the federal government would have a 10% stake in Intel through a combination of common stock and grants, including through the CHIPS and Science Act.

The decision has been criticized by conservatives who have told the Washington Examiner they are concerned about the precedent that it sets.

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“If socialism is government owning the means of production, wouldn’t the government owning part of Intel be a step toward socialism?” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wrote on social media.

“This is socialism with an R next to its name,” conservative commentator Erick Erickson said on his radio show, referring to “Republican.”