Donald Trump Takes Credit For Saving a Ford Plant That Wasn't Actually Moving to Mexico
President-elect Donald Trump has boasted about how his promise to bring jobs and manufacturing back to America is happening even before he takes office in another two months.There's one snag though: the factory he's referring to was never going anywhere, and neither were any jobs.On Thursday night, Trump took to Twitter to talk about a conversation he had with the Ford Motor Company's chairman about a manufacturing plant in Kentucky:Just got a call from my friend Bill Ford, Chairman of Ford, who advised me that he will be keeping the Lincoln plant in Kentucky – no Mexico — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2016I worked hard with Bill Ford to keep the Lincoln plant in Kentucky.
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Trump celebrates as Ford decides not to move production of SUV model to Mexico
President-elect Donald Trump claimed Thursday that he convinced the chairman of Ford Motor Co. not to move an assembly plant from Kentucky to Mexico.But Ford never intended to move the plant, just production of one of the vehicles it makes.Trump said in a tweet that Bill Ford, the company's executive chairman, telephoned him with the news that a "Lincoln plant" would stay in Louisville.