Trump tells the press about 11 bigly yuge beautiful massive car factories that WILL NEVER BE BUILT.

[Miles Archer]

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Trump: "We have at least 11 committed, massive car factories that are gonna be built. That are in the process of being built. Some have actually started."

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

1. "Look at the big, beautiful Foxconn factory"

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Shovel ready? Hah!

https://www.theverge.com/c/21507966/foxconn-empty-factories-wisconsin-jobs-loophole-trump

[mwmisses4289]

8. foxconn

Emphasis on the con.

[Blues Heron]

2. I wish they would start hammering him on all the lies

Just be pit bulls on his ass, never let single lie go unchallenged, keep bringing up previous lies and hammering those. Dont let him have ANY benefit of the doubt. Treat him like a corrupt overpaid grifting asshole that he is. How is this so difficult?

[Kid Berwyn]

6. THAT's how a free press is supposed to work.

Their job is to hold our employees --- the government of the United States, representatives and hires of We the People -- responsible for conducting their offices in accordance with law.

Unfortunately, the corrupt mass media ignore the criminality on behalf of private interests and other enemies of the state, while dishing up propaganda and side show to draw attention away for the sundry crimes and treason.

Thanks for nothing, Putin and Murdoch.

[bsiebs]

15. That is how it is supposed to work in the perfect world...

... and the perfect world is only when Democrats are in control... THAT is when you will have the press acting like "pit bulls on his ass", whoever the Democrat is that they are questioning... and if the Democrat doesn't lie, no problem, they can get a soundbite from the republican/right wing machine and use that to do their pit-bully stuff... Seems to be standard operating procedure for them..

[bucolic_frolic]

3. He doesn't look well

Is it me, or is he leaning to his left, the right shoulder longer than the left? Not to belabor the point, maybe some golfing pain.

[oasis]

5. Nobody is more full of shit than Donald J.Trump.

Not on this planet.

[Johonny]

7. Where?

Trump never dropped a detail in a story in his life.

[Rebl2]

9. Name them

orange man

[RazorbackExpat]

11. He'll let us know

after he's told us the names of the 200 countries he's already done deals with

[Biophilic]

10. What a lying piece of shit!

This is just the beginning and I am so over it already. I need a new strategy. Maybe I'll move to Greenland.

[malaise]

12. Down memory lane

https://wisconsinindependent.com/infrastructure/trump-promise-manufacturing-miracle-failed-foxconn/

Trump’s promised ‘manufacturing miracle’ failed to materialize
Over $860 billion in manufacturing investments have been announced since President Joe Biden took office.

“He and his administration promised a $10 billion investment by Foxconn to build a new manufacturing complex and create 13,000 new jobs. In fact, he came here with your senator, Ron Johnson, literally holding a golden shovel, promising to build the ‘eighth wonder of the world,” Biden said.
“Look what happened. They dug a hole with those golden shovels, and then they fell into it.”
The failure of the Foxconn facility is part of an overall downward trend in manufacturing that occurred under Trump’s administration.
In 2020, Trump said that his policies had led to a “manufacturing miracle,” but according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the United States lost nearly 200,000 jobs on his watch. By comparison, over 700,000 manufacturing jobs have been added since Biden took office in 2021.
An August 2020 report from the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute determined that trade policies under Trump did not slow offshoring of U.S. jobs and that his mismanagement of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic led to weakness in manufacturing.

[Ocelot II]

13. Which companies are building them? Where are they? When will they be finished?

How many people will they employ? How many cars will be produced?

[rubbersole]

16. They're all in Legoland.

Gonna produce Lego cars. With Musk designs. Gonna be UUGE!

[Ocelot II]

18. Lego is a Danish company. Will Lego be part of capturing Greenland?

[rubbersole]

21. Winter Haven, FL Legoland theme park will have to do -

Until Greenland becomes the 52nd state. Right after Hell freezes over. Probably shouldn't give tsf any ideas...

[swong19104]

14. Now is the time to build manufacturing plants

for the next generation of transport, whatever that may be.

[Ocelot II]

19. So everybody can work in factories, as Howard Nutlick suggests?

[swong19104]

22. Doubtful

Most new manufacturing facilities will be almost all fully automated.

[Iamscrewed]

17. Idiots

Will always be idiots. When are these duffisses gonna see reality?

[BaronChocula]

20. "Some have actually started.

Did I say 11? I meant 20, 30, 100. Big factories making big beautiful cars. You'll see very very soon. I talked to one... to one factory car leader person who said he's never seen anything like it and it wouldn't be possible without the tariffs. He said 'thank you Mr. President sir, I have so much more respect for you because you understand business.' Another one said to me he's never seen such a good president since Lincoln. Lincoln. And that was a long time ago. The early, very early 1900s. So we have prices way down, way down and so many cars. There's gonna be so many cars and cheap. Cheap. So we may have to give cars away. I don't know, but it's going to be very... great."

[Wiz Imp]

23. A Reminder of what Trump said about auto plants being built under his first term 5 years ago

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/10/trump-keeps-bragging-about-imaginary-auto-plants-swing-states/

Trump keeps bragging about imaginary auto plants in swing states

“Many plants are being built right now — auto plants — in Michigan, just like I said. They’re being built in Ohio, they’re being built in South Carolina, North Carolina, they’re being built all over and expanded at a level that we’ve never seen before.

The Facts
Essentially, Trump says that under his watch, auto assembly plants have been added at an unprecedented rate in Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina and possibly other states — “they’re being built all over and expanded at a level that we’ve never seen before.” No surprise. Trump is making stuff up.

There are no new plants in Ohio, North Carolina or South Carolina. Mercedes-Benz, a German company, and Volvo, a Swedish company, both opened plants in South Carolina in 2018, but the projects broke ground in 2015, before Trump was elected. So that doesn’t count.

As for his claim of unprecedented investment, Dziczek said: “In total, there were over $64.2 billion in automaker manufacturing investment announcements in the United States between 2013-2016 (previous three-year period) vs. $40.0B between 2017-2020.”

Four Pinocchios

[Wiz Imp]

24. Trump Claims Eleven Car Factories Are Being Built: They Are Not. Lying just for lying.

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/05/trump-claims-eleven-car-factories-are#google_vignette

Trump told the press that he has a commitment that eleven car factories are in the process of being built in the U.S after he was asked if he will loosen up his idiotic tariffs against car manufacturers.

Trump lied as usual.

Car manufacturers like Hyundai, Stellantis, and Honda have announced expansion plans at existing facilities rather than new constructions to meet the electric car demand.

Yet, many may never come to fruition.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/4/2/are-us-car-plants-being-built-at-record-rates-as-trump-claims

Are US car plants being built at record rates, as Trump claims?
Trump claimed auto plant growth, but evidence shows reallocations at existing facilities rather than new constructions.

Asked for evidence, the White House cited recent expansion plan announcements from carmakers Hyundai, Stellantis and Honda.

However, automotive industry experts say Trump exaggerated. In most cases, these announcements represent reallocations of investments at existing facilities, not newly built plants. And they may or may not come to fruition.

It is premature for the president to take credit for plant expansion given his short time in office, said Dimitry Anastakis, a University of Toronto business history professor and author of the 2024 book The North American Auto Industry since NAFTA. “Plants are planned years in advance,” he said.

We found no data to confirm that the spate of recent announcements amounts to a record-setting level of automotive manufacturing investment.