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Trump’s Repeated Falsehood on Auto Plants

In launching his reelection campaign, President Donald Trump repeated a claim about new auto plants that he made a year-and-a-half ago. It’s still not true, and it fits a pattern of Trump falsely boasting of unexpected or unusual gains in the auto industry.

Trump of the U.S. auto industry in his June 18 rally in Orlando: “Many, many plants are now under construction in Michigan and Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida. They hadn’t built one in decades and now they’re all over the place.” It’s not true that the auto industry hasn’t built a new plant “in decades.” As for the “many, many plants …, director of the Automotive Communities Partnership at the , told us he knew of only two new assembly plants under construction or newly announced —  a Toyota/Mazda joint venture plant in Alabama ( in January 2018) and a Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) plant in Michigan ( in February).

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