President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed that he ended “the assault on the American auto industry,” though the actions of President Barack Obama’s administration are widely understood to have saved the industry.
“The assault on the American auto industry, believe me, is over. It’s over. Not going to have it anymore,” Trump said in a speech at the American Center for Mobility near Ypsilanti, Michigan. “I kept my word.”
Trump said that he has “followed through on his promise, and by the way many other promises.”
“We’re setting up a task force in every federal agency to identify and remove any regulation that undermines American auto production and any other kind of production,” he said. “Including the production of high-end, low-end, big, small, every form of automobile and truck.”
The Obama administration’s bailout of the auto industry, widely understood to have saved it, became a contentious issue during the 2012 election when Republican candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney tried to claim credit.
Did Thimble-Thumbs express any interest in helping Flint’s water supply, or did he just go with his usual lying horseshit speech?
Hope he’s not enjoying his fix like he anticipated.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say this is directly related to whatever ideological mind-meld took place between him and that Knox guy who they talked to as one of the “victims” of Obamacare and who wrote the crazy letter to the CEO of some car company (was it GM? can’t remember).
How do foreign car brands manufactured in the United States play into Trump’s little narrative?
Wonder how long before it’s harder to draw a cheering crowd and he has to go back to hiring them like he did in 2015? Then he tried to stiff the firm that did the hiring and it became public.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/20/even-the-firm-that-hired-actors-to-cheer-trumps-campaign-launch-had-to-wait-to-be-paid/