President Donald Trump wrongly boasted that Toyota’s plan to invest over $1 billion in its largest manufacturing plant in Kentucky would “not have been made if we didn’t win the election.” A Toyota spokesman told us the car company had long been planning to make the investment.
President Donald Trump wrongly boasted that Toyota’s plan to invest over $1 billion in its largest manufacturing plant in Kentucky would “not have been made if we didn’ t win the election.” A Toyota spokesman told us the car company had long been planning to make the investment and that the president was not a factor in the company’s decision.
In addition, Trump wrongly claimed that his administration has “created over 600, 000 jobs already in a very short period of time.” Under Trump, the U. S. economy has added a combined 317, 000 jobs in February and March, according to the most recent government data.
The president made both claims during a strategic and policy discussion with company CEOs at the White House on April 11.
Trump: At the top of our agenda is the creation of great high-paying jobs for American workers. And we’ ve made a lot of progress. You see what’s going on; you see the numbers. We’ ve created over 600, 000 jobs already in a very short period of time, and it’s going to really start catching on now, because some of the things that we’ ve done are big league and they are catching on.
Already, we’ ve created more than almost 600, 000 jobs. And yesterday, Toyota just announced that it will invest more than $1.3 billion — it’s probably going to be $1.9 billion — into its Georgetown, Kentucky, plant, an investment that would not have been made if we didn’ t win the election.
Toyota announced on April 10 that it will spend $1.33 billion upgrading its assembly plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, as it works on a new model of the Camry. The car, according to the statement, “will become the first Toyota vehicle made in the U.
