Trump makes wild claims about revitalizing auto industry at Michigan rally

[Klaralven]

FREELAND, Mich. — President Donald Trump made wildly inaccurate claims at a rally outside Saginaw on Thursday night, suggesting he has revitalized auto manufacturing in the state when it actually lost jobs even before coronavirus hit in March.

"We brought you a lot of car plants, we brought you a lot ... and we’re going to bring you a lot more," Trump began his speech at MBS International Airport in Freeland.

But only one new major assembly facility, a Jeep plant on Detroit's east side, has been announced during Trump's term, while General Motors underwent a divisive 40-day strike last year and announced the idling of four U.S. plants, including two in Michigan. One of those, Detroit-Hamtramck, has since been revived and is being retooled to build electric cars and SUVs. Warren transmission was revived most recently to make face masks, though its future is uncertain.

Navya, a French shuttle maker, announced it could employ 50 or so people at a plant in Saline, said Kristin Dziczek, vice president of industry, labor and economics with the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor; Waymo, which makes self-driving cars, said last year it would employ 100 people at an assembly plant in Detroit and could someday expand that number to 400.

That's hardly a signal of a vast resurgence. Trump has also apparently made similar exaggerated claims in other campaign stops, with the Washington Post saying he has been "bragging about imaginary auto plants."

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/09/10/trump-michigan-rally-auto-claims/5768672002/

[SharonClark]

1. Every one of his supporters there believed everything he said

is true.

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. Yeah, like it wouldn't be easy check out his story. Just take his lies at face value.

His Deplorables must love being lied too.

[maxrandb]

3. Unlike 2016, every major cable and alphabet network did NOT

Show us hours upon hours of an empty podium, and report breathlessly on every fart that came out of his face rectum.

Guess the Circus is not as popular this time around.

We all need to continue changing the channel the very second he comes on the screen.

I gave MSNBC one minute too much when they started covering his shitshow press rally yesterday. In that minute I counted at least 30 lies. That's a lie every two seconds.

My suggestion for the media is this; tape the fucking things, if at any time he RESIGNS, break into my regular programming.