Trump touts jobs as Ford invests $1.2 billion in Michigan plants

[jpak]

Source: Washington Post

Ford will invest $1.2 billion to build or modernize three facilities in Michigan where it plans to assemble trucks and SUVs, and to store consumer data, a reflection of the trends that are fundamentally reshaping the auto industry’s business model and manufacturing operations in the U.S.

President Trump preempted the “big announcement” with an early morning tweet in which he touted, “Car companies coming back to U.S. JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!” Trump has pointed to a series of investments in domestic manufacturing that automakers have recently announced as a sign his administration is delivering on its economic promise to bring jobs back to the United States. Ford, Fiat-Chrysler and General Motors, among other companies, got early mentions in his joint address to Congress last month for investing and hiring in the U.S.

But such massive investment decisions take longer to plan and execute than Trump has been in office. The investments Ford announced Tuesday, for example, are part of a 2015 contract between the automaker and United Auto Workers in which the company agreed to invest $9 billion and create or retain 8,500 jobs through 2019.

Joseph Hinrichs, Ford’s president for the Americas, said in an interview that the company reached out to Trump shortly before 8 a.m. this morning about the announcement, so it is unclear what prompted the president’s 140-character missive at 6:36 a.m. The Detroit News reported the investments Monday night in a story citing anonymous sources.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/03/28/trump-said-ford-will-invest-at-three-michigan-auto-plants/?utm_term=.f5dbc1539c01

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[Dopers_Greed]

1. Ironic that he's taking credit for it

Considering the auto industry in America would be completely dead if it weren't for Obama

[yallerdawg]

2. "The future's so bright" - but these workers need no "shades."

[pangaia]

3. This photo should be posted in each and every red congressional district newspaper

and shown on every evening news station in the country.

Where did your job go?

Well folks, you can start with this.

[yallerdawg]

4. Now, how much do you tip your waiter?

[pangaia]

7. :)))))) I always tip a lot.....

That is partially because I often need help figuring those things out.

[TexasBushwhacker]

8. Yeah, I'm pretty sure "modernize" means robotics n/t

[secondwind]

5. Does this man ever READ anything, or research before he Tweets? How could he possibly

think he had anything to do with this? oh, I forgot.. he is a psychopath

[JenniferJuniper]

6. Robots, robots, robots!

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Is he gonna take credit for the sudden fall in the stock market?

I thought not!

[MurrayDelph]

10. The sun came up today

Trump takes credit for it.

[maxrandb]

11. You know what will get this pricks attention?

Sorry Ford, you either come out "forcefully" and make it clear that the orange shitgibbon had nothing to do with this, or we will boycott your products.

He's using you for propaganda purposes. If you don't denounce it, then you endorse it and you should be made to pay a price for being complicit in his propaganda

[llmart]

12. I agree.

I've actually toured a Ford plant. It's not a bustling hive like you'd see in the old Henry Ford documentaries. It's an automated wonder. They still use people of course, but this orange asswipe is so freakin' out of touch with the world that he thinks everyone else is too.

Someone needs to remind him he doesn't have any mandate in Michigan. He barely squeaked by and I still believe election fraud.

[nitpicker]

13. Link to BBC

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39418952