Politifact: Trump's claim that he saved Michigan's auto industry is false

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It is noted that Michigan actually lost auto jobs in 2019, even before coronavirus arrived and caused even more losses.
More auto jobs were created here during the Obama administration, the article goes on
Trump is dishonest.

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Donald Trump
stated on September 10, 2020 in a speech at a rally in Michigan:
"After the last administration nearly killed the US auto industry, I saved the U.S. auto industry ... We brought you a lot of car plants… (and Japan) “announced five car companies are coming to Michigan.”

• NATIONAL
• JOBS
• MICHIGAN
• DONALD TRUMP

President Donald Trump acknowledges a supporter following a campaign rally at MBS International Airport in Freeland, Mich. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)


By Jon GreenbergSeptember 11, 2020
Trump’s Michigan car industry claims veer off course
IF YOUR TIME IS SHORT

• The Bush and Obama administrations helped save the auto industry.
• Fiat Chrysler is building a new plant in Michigan.
• Auto industry jobs fell by about 3,000 in 2019.
• No Japanese car makers announced plans to expand in Michigan.

See the sources for this fact-check

If you’re going to talk about the car industry in Michigan, it helps to get the facts right. President Donald Trump did not.
At a rally in Freeland, Mich., Trump described great success in reviving automotive jobs.
"After the last administration nearly killed the U.S. auto industry, I saved the U.S. auto industry," he said Sept. 10. "We brought you a lot of car plants."
And he went on to say that he wrangled a promise in a meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for Japanese companies to expand in the U.S.
"The next day they announced five car companies are coming to Michigan," Trump told the crowd.
There’s nothing fully correct in any of that. Japan didn’t announce five companies coming to Michigan. Trump didn’t save the auto industry. And he didn’t bring a lot of car plants to the state — the most he can claim is one.
That one is a Fiat Chryler factory that will build Jeep SUVs in Detroit, on the site of an idled engine plant. It’s due to open in 2021. That is part of a package of investments in five other Fiat Chrysler plants in the state.
"Trump can count it as a new plant because it closed back in 2013 before he became president," said automobile industry researcher James Rubenstein at Ohio’s Miami University.
But when Trump said that he saved the auto industry, he left out that total auto industry employment in Michigan dropped by about 3,000 in 2019. That was after a steady rise since 2010, when the major U.S. automakers began to recover from the recession and their restructurings. The coronavirus-induced economic slump this year brought more job losses, but the declines took place before the virus arrived.
As for the previous administration nearly killing the industry, the evidence points to the opposite. In 2008 and 2009, intervention by the Bush and Obama administrations pulled the auto and auto parts makers back from the brink of collapse. Under the Obama administration, General Motors and Chrysler went through quick, taxpayer-financed bankruptcy reorganizations orchestrated by a federal task force and the U.S. Treasury, and both emerged from the Great Recession to add jobs and production capacity.

Trump’s false claims about Michigan’s car industry

If you’re going to talk about the car industry in Michigan, it helps to get the facts right. President Donald Trump did

www.politifact.com

 

[WelfareQueen]

It is noted that Michigan actually list auto jobs in 2019, even before coronavirus arrived and caused even more losses.
More auto jobs were created here during the Obama administration, the article goes on
Trump is dishonest.

Trump’s false claims about Michigan’s car industry

If you’re going to talk about the car industry in Michigan, it helps to get the facts right. President Donald Trump did

www.politifact.com

If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

Obungal.....Lie of the Year.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

It is noted that Michigan actually list auto jobs in 2019, even before coronavirus arrived and caused even more losses.
More auto jobs were created here during the Obama administration, the article goes on
Trump is dishonest.

Trump’s false claims about Michigan’s car industry

If you’re going to talk about the car industry in Michigan, it helps to get the facts right. President Donald Trump did

www.politifact.com

If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

Obungal.....Lie of the Year.

Folks, you're going to see pathetic deflections like this one into November. Don't fear. Cult45 is out of gas, folks.

 

[WelfareQueen]

It is noted that Michigan actually list auto jobs in 2019, even before coronavirus arrived and caused even more losses.
More auto jobs were created here during the Obama administration, the article goes on
Trump is dishonest.

Trump’s false claims about Michigan’s car industry

If you’re going to talk about the car industry in Michigan, it helps to get the facts right. President Donald Trump did

www.politifact.com

If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

Obungal.....Lie of the Year.

Folks, you're going to see pathetic deflections like this one into November. Don't fear. Cult45 is out of gas, folks.

I love it when you girls get your little panties all in a twist. "Tump told a fib," the girls cry.

Yeah....But Dims never do. STFU.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

It is noted that Michigan actually list auto jobs in 2019, even before coronavirus arrived and caused even more losses.
More auto jobs were created here during the Obama administration, the article goes on
Trump is dishonest.

Trump’s false claims about Michigan’s car industry

If you’re going to talk about the car industry in Michigan, it helps to get the facts right. President Donald Trump did

www.politifact.com

If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

Obungal.....Lie of the Year.

Folks, you're going to see pathetic deflections like this one into November. Don't fear. Cult45 is out of gas, folks.

I love it when you girls get your little panties all in a twist. "Tump told a fib," the girls cry.

Yeah....But Dims never do. STFU.

*Que 80's movie slow clap*

Outstanding, bud. You're killing it.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

“If you’re going to talk about the car industry in Michigan, it helps to get the facts right. President Donald Trump did not.” ibid

Of course not.

All Trump does is lie.

 

[WelfareQueen]

“If you’re going to talk about the car industry in Michigan, it helps to get the facts right. President Donald Trump did not.” ibid

Of course not.

All Trump does is lie.

 

[WelfareQueen]

It is noted that Michigan actually list auto jobs in 2019, even before coronavirus arrived and caused even more losses.
More auto jobs were created here during the Obama administration, the article goes on
Trump is dishonest.

Trump’s false claims about Michigan’s car industry

If you’re going to talk about the car industry in Michigan, it helps to get the facts right. President Donald Trump did

www.politifact.com

If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

Obungal.....Lie of the Year.

Folks, you're going to see pathetic deflections like this one into November. Don't fear. Cult45 is out of gas, folks.

I love it when you girls get your little panties all in a twist. "Tump told a fib," the girls cry.

Yeah....But Dims never do. STFU.

*Que 80's movie slow clap*

Outstanding, bud. You're killing it.

 

[WelfareQueen]

It is noted that Michigan actually list auto jobs in 2019, even before coronavirus arrived and caused even more losses.
More auto jobs were created here during the Obama administration, the article goes on
Trump is dishonest.

Trump’s false claims about Michigan’s car industry

If you’re going to talk about the car industry in Michigan, it helps to get the facts right. President Donald Trump did

www.politifact.com

If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

Obungal.....Lie of the Year.

Folks, you're going to see pathetic deflections like this one into November. Don't fear. Cult45 is out of gas, folks.

 

[WelfareQueen]

This is a good one.

 

[Billy000]

It is noted that Michigan actually lost auto jobs in 2019, even before coronavirus arrived and caused even more losses.
More auto jobs were created here during the Obama administration, the article goes on
Trump is dishonest.

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Donald Trump
stated on September 10, 2020 in a speech at a rally in Michigan:
"After the last administration nearly killed the US auto industry, I saved the U.S. auto industry ... We brought you a lot of car plants… (and Japan) “announced five car companies are coming to Michigan.”

• NATIONAL
• JOBS
• MICHIGAN
• DONALD TRUMP

President Donald Trump acknowledges a supporter following a campaign rally at MBS International Airport in Freeland, Mich. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)


By Jon GreenbergSeptember 11, 2020
Trump’s Michigan car industry claims veer off course
IF YOUR TIME IS SHORT

• The Bush and Obama administrations helped save the auto industry.
• Fiat Chrysler is building a new plant in Michigan.
• Auto industry jobs fell by about 3,000 in 2019.
• No Japanese car makers announced plans to expand in Michigan.

See the sources for this fact-check

If you’re going to talk about the car industry in Michigan, it helps to get the facts right. President Donald Trump did not.
At a rally in Freeland, Mich., Trump described great success in reviving automotive jobs.
"After the last administration nearly killed the U.S. auto industry, I saved the U.S. auto industry," he said Sept. 10. "We brought you a lot of car plants."
And he went on to say that he wrangled a promise in a meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for Japanese companies to expand in the U.S.
"The next day they announced five car companies are coming to Michigan," Trump told the crowd.
There’s nothing fully correct in any of that. Japan didn’t announce five companies coming to Michigan. Trump didn’t save the auto industry. And he didn’t bring a lot of car plants to the state — the most he can claim is one.
That one is a Fiat Chryler factory that will build Jeep SUVs in Detroit, on the site of an idled engine plant. It’s due to open in 2021. That is part of a package of investments in five other Fiat Chrysler plants in the state.
"Trump can count it as a new plant because it closed back in 2013 before he became president," said automobile industry researcher James Rubenstein at Ohio’s Miami University.
But when Trump said that he saved the auto industry, he left out that total auto industry employment in Michigan dropped by about 3,000 in 2019. That was after a steady rise since 2010, when the major U.S. automakers began to recover from the recession and their restructurings. The coronavirus-induced economic slump this year brought more job losses, but the declines took place before the virus arrived.
As for the previous administration nearly killing the industry, the evidence points to the opposite. In 2008 and 2009, intervention by the Bush and Obama administrations pulled the auto and auto parts makers back from the brink of collapse. Under the Obama administration, General Motors and Chrysler went through quick, taxpayer-financed bankruptcy reorganizations orchestrated by a federal task force and the U.S. Treasury, and both emerged from the Great Recession to add jobs and production capacity.

Trump’s false claims about Michigan’s car industry

If you’re going to talk about the car industry in Michigan, it helps to get the facts right. President Donald Trump did

www.politifact.com

What I find bewildering is that Trump makes these retarded, outlandish claims that are so obviously bullshit yet his knuckle dragging supporters believe it anyway.

 

[WelfareQueen]

Yeah. Those Dim lies and funny as shit. They definitely make me laugh,

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

It is noted that Michigan actually list auto jobs in 2019, even before coronavirus arrived and caused even more losses.
More auto jobs were created here during the Obama administration, the article goes on
Trump is dishonest.

Trump’s false claims about Michigan’s car industry

If you’re going to talk about the car industry in Michigan, it helps to get the facts right. President Donald Trump did

www.politifact.com

If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

Obungal.....Lie of the Year.

Folks, you're going to see pathetic deflections like this one into November. Don't fear. Cult45 is out of gas, folks.

"Not even a smidgen of corruption". Man. This guy will never win in 2020.

 

[WelfareQueen]

It is noted that Michigan actually list auto jobs in 2019, even before coronavirus arrived and caused even more losses.
More auto jobs were created here during the Obama administration, the article goes on
Trump is dishonest.

Trump’s false claims about Michigan’s car industry

If you’re going to talk about the car industry in Michigan, it helps to get the facts right. President Donald Trump did

www.politifact.com

If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

Obungal.....Lie of the Year.

Folks, you're going to see pathetic deflections like this one into November. Don't fear. Cult45 is out of gas, folks.

"Not even a smidgen of corruption". Man. This guy will never win in 2020.

Neither will his idiot, lying brain dead VP.

 

[basquebromance]

the media is on the verge of a big nervous breakdown after Trump wins in a landslide!

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

It is noted that Michigan actually list auto jobs in 2019, even before coronavirus arrived and caused even more losses.
More auto jobs were created here during the Obama administration, the article goes on
Trump is dishonest.

Trump’s false claims about Michigan’s car industry

If you’re going to talk about the car industry in Michigan, it helps to get the facts right. President Donald Trump did

www.politifact.com

If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

Obungal.....Lie of the Year.

Folks, you're going to see pathetic deflections like this one into November. Don't fear. Cult45 is out of gas, folks.

"Not even a smidgen of corruption". Man. This guy will never win in 2020.

Neither will his idiot, lying brain dead VP.

Best of luck.

 

[eagle1462010]

 

[eagle1462010]

Left wing lunacy caused this............kneeling to the rest of the world caused this..........

No one wants to invest in a liberal shithole with a lunatic Governor like there is today..........lead water ...........and politicians full of shiite..........

Auto working jobs have come back some..............just not in DNC run areas..............That's kinda like a woman walking into a high crime neighborhood and wondering why she got raped..........

 

[imawhosure]

Questions----------->when did GM file for Bankruptcy? When did Chrysler file, then actually become foreign owned?

ANSWERS----------> GM, June of 2009, Chrysler in April of 2009!

Who was the President, and who was the VP? Why Obungles and Biteme, lol!

Sure, sure Leftists; Obungles and Biteme did a stellar job with the auto industry. Sure they did! And that magnificent Obungles, why he FORCED the resignation of the CEO of GM. Why? Because the CEO of GM refused to build autos that Obungles wanted GM to build, because the CEO knew that GM could not sell them.

Now we all know that the community organizer Obungles is the smartest person in the world; probably the universe. He knows what Americans want, lol. Hell, just look at his average GDP while we listened to his brilliance, of an average of LESS than 2% growth under his leadership, lolololol.

Wait till the debates if BITEME has the nerve to show up, lol. If you think Hiden Biden is starting to tank now, you ain't seen nothing yet-)

 

[basquebromance]

The reason that the small truck business in the US is such a go to favorite is that, for many years, Tariffs of 25% have been put on small trucks coming into our country. It is called the “chicken tax.” If we did that with cars coming in, many more cars would be built here