President Trump Donald John TrumpBubba Wallace to be driver of Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin NASCAR team Graham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Southwest Airlines, unions call for six-month extension of government aid MORE on Thursday likened the U.S. to a "developing country."

Trump took aim at the Paris climate agreement during a speech to a builders' union in Richfield, Ohio. The president highlighted terms in the pact under which developed countries would pay less-developed nations to assist their transition to cleaner energy use.

“That was a disaster for this country,” Trump said of the climate pact, claiming it would have forced the U.S. to close factories.

“As far as I’m concerned, we’re developing. Pay us some money. We’re developing," he continued.

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"Maybe we’ll call it redeveloping, because we’re redeveloping. But it was unfair," he said.

Under Trump, the U.S. is withdrawing from the global climate pact, which sets environmental goals for participants. The process though will take until at least November 2020.

Trump's speech Thursday was to be focused on infrastructure, but the president also covered a number of other topics.

Trump has previously said U.S. infrastructure resembles that of a third-world country, specifically highlighting the need to improve America's airports.

On Thursday, he argued his administration’s infrastructure initiative would help spur investment to address that issue.

“Now we are like in many cases a third-world country. It’s an embarrassment,” he said. “And we’re the ones that had the imagination and the drive to get it done. But we’ve got that again.”