Trump lies about US steel opening new factories

[Demovictory9]

"The head of U.S. Steel called me the other day, and he said, 'We're opening up six major facilities and expanding facilities that have never been expanded.' They haven't been opened in many, many years."- President Donald Trump, roundtable with American workers, Duluth, Minnesota, June 20, 2018

"U.S. Steel just announced they're expanding or building six new facilities."- Trump, remarks at the White House, June 26

"I've been hearing that from steel companies, and in particular from U.S. Steel, where I was with the president, as I said. And he - they're just talking about opening plants now, and so many things have changed."- Trump, roundtable on tax reform, Cleveland, May 5

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Here's a puzzler: Why is the president of the United States announcing the opening of new factories that a major U.S. company has not announced?


U.S. Steel is a publicly traded company, so it is supposed to disclose materially important information. The opening of six major facilities and the expansion of even more would be huge news.

Yet all U.S. Steel has announced is that it will restart two blast furnaces and steelmaking facilities at the company's Granite City Works integrated plant in Illinois - one in March and the other in October. The reopening of the first blast furnace was announced in March, resulting in 500 jobs, and the second was announced in June, adding 300. The plant had been closed since 2015.

The Facts

President Trump has a tendency to cite conversations that did not occur quite the way he describes them - if they took place at all. So we were a bit suspicious when he mentioned a phone conversation with Dave Burritt, chief executive of U.S. Stee






https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/President-Trump-announces-a-major-US-Steel-13033881.php

[raging moderate]

1. He is delusional.

Probably he dreamed it.

[LakeVermilion]

2. The man/boy has to be on the spectrum...

[Doodley]

3. Insider trading?

[democratisphere]

4. drumpf lives in an imaginary chaotic destructive world.

[Tracyjo]

5. Lying ass

US steel isn't even talking to him. He's evil and knows nothing.

[Beartracks]

6. Trump lives in a fantasy land, and Republicans don't care.

Many of them just buy into his bullshit, because... because... well, I don't really know why.



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[Bengus81]

7. Trump spewing FAKE PR to inflate the stock.....sad and ILLEGAL

Throw that fucker in jail.............

[duforsure]

8. He uses this propaganda

Because it works. Con men always develop trust and confidence making whatever they say to their followers true, so this is no surprise. He has to say things like this to project he's winning, and they believe him. Just like some coal miners believe his statements saying coal is back , when its the opposite of the truth , again. trumps lying is getting so outrageous and extreme he getting very bad and our Bagdad Bob. Now he's surrounding him self with similar corrupt or corrupted people who'll promote the same kind of lying and corruption or they're gone. Scott pruitt's still there is a good example. Corruption running wild out of this white house , and administration, while the gop in Congress are instructed to go after investigators investigating him , and his opposition people, like Hillary to criminalize for him or they aren't loyal enough , and he attacks them. Dictator trump is now what we got . It never ends well for people like him, never, especially after he gets really violent against the American people.

[safeinOhio]

9. And trump university will

be training all the new workers.

[spanone]

10. he lies because his disciples lap it up

[dalton99a]

11. The Big Lie technique depends on the lie being big

Big enough that people would consider it impossible to have manufactured such a thing