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President Trump Criticizes GM, Thinks Automaker Will Stay In Ohio

President Trump responded to General Motors decision to close four U.S. production facilities on Monday with tough criticism for CEO Mary Barra.

The Hill reported Monday that President Trump said he’d spoken with Barra after the automaker announced nearly 15,000 workers would be laid off at the four U.S. plants. The plants scheduled to go idle and shut down are the Lordstown plant in Warren, Ohio, Detroit-Hamtramck in Michigan, Baltimore transmission operation in Maryland, and Warren transmission operation in Michigan.

The president said he’s “not happy” about GM’s decision to close the plant in Ohio, a crucial state that helped him win the election in 2016. However, he said he doesn’t think GM will follow through on its closure.

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“I have no doubt that in a not too distant future they’ll put something else. They better put something else in,” he said.

He added there will be a lot of pressure on GM as it moves to shut down the four plants and he told Barra to put a car in the Ohio plant that sells well. The Lordstown plant only builds the Chevrolet Cruze sedan for the U.S. market. The Cruze hatchback is built in Mexico for export, while the sedan is also built in Mexico for the local market and Canada. GM announced the Cruze sedan and hatch would exit the U.S. market next year, but it will likely remain on sale in other countries.

President Trump also demanded GM stop building cars in China and the automaker “better damn well open a new plant [in Ohio] very quickly,” according to the Wall Street Journal. The automaker sources one vehicle from China, the Buick Envision. The Cadillac CT6 Plug-In was also imported from China, but the automaker axed the model for 2019. The Cadillac CT6 will exit production next year with the Detroit-Hamtramck shutdown.

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There are no plans to retool either the Lordstown or Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plants and the facilities will not be up for product allocation.

Former GM Authority staff writer.

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  1. Good for our President to stand up and protect American workers, unions and communities. We have been beaten down for too long. We finally have a President that has the balls to do so. GM and Miss Mary Barra should be ashamed of themselves. They got richer on stock while average Americans lost their jobs and pensions.

    Thank you President Trump!

    P.S. New plant in Ohio sounds good!

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    1. Stock Market price went up-Up-UP for GM after the announcement.

      Soooo….. what choice are you going to make? Make America Great Again, or Make Trump Great Again? Because when the Market goes up and Trump says that’s wrong, you can’t have both.

      Hahahahahaha hahahahaha hahahahaha……

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      1. Oh, look, we knew socialist sore loser Old Crusty Trombone would show up whining and crying about Trump. Trump Derangement Syndrome much?

        Election over. You lost. Movevon…

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    2. lies and wishful thinking… taking advantage of poor, down trotten people at their worst. Very dispicable what is happening both at head of govt and corporations …

      while everyone that DOES actually buy the cars still want to bathe in foreign names and flags to look cool at the soccer kid drop off … this world is pitiful…

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    3. better healthcare for less sounds good too. whatever happened to that? after years of criticizing the affordable care act, republicans held the presidency, senate and house. and what happened? nothing. no excuses.

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      1. Sore loser…you lost…nothing will change this…Trump is still President…Hillary is not…she never will be…the Democratic party is in shambles…Trump will win again.

        Time to move and deal with that Trump Derangement Syndrome of yours.

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    4. Yea because every president before him would have said the exact opposite and expressed happiness and enjoyment in response to the job cuts. Get real.

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      1. “Yea because every president before him would have said the exact opposite and expressed happiness and enjoyment in response to the job cuts. Get real.”

        I wish I could upvote this more. No politician, no matter their stripe, would boast of job cuts.

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    5. “Good for our President to stand up and protect American workers, unions and communities.”

      I bet you’re stupid enough to think we’re all good with North Korea because Trump ‘stood up and protected Americans’ by ‘talking tough’.

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  2. President Trump on the video:

    “This country has done a lot for General Motors…and you better get back there soon in Ohio”

    “They BETTER put something else in (regarding slow-selling Cruze production in the U.S.)”

    …fighting words, love it!

    Even as a lifelong GM fan and driver, I am in agreement with Trump on this one. No more excuses, GM.

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    1. Yup, fighting words is all he’s got, no actual fight of any kind at all, just the words.

      Why?

      Because his New York friends are getting all the stock market profits they want, look at GM shares today. And his worker-voters like you? For you, he’s got “fighting words”. I hope the feeling of his words entering your ears is enough for you, because what he doesn’t have is actual results for you.

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      1. OLD TROMBONE has serious mental health issues. He needs help. Let’s wish him well.

        Thank God Trump is our President with people like him.

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      2. Gee, I guess the Grifter in Chief told Mary, I expect all those GM jobs are safe now. Maybe they can get together with those Carrier employees from Indiana and compare pay stubs. Followers of the Orange Turd, Bwahahaha!

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    2. lol exactly probably some 10 yr old trash GM twin crossover probably is what you can claim at this point…

      Fight with your wallet, I don’t see your ‘new car day’ pics showing off your new CT6 or Cruze ? If they are so ‘great’ as you say?

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  3. Inspirational leader. Standing up for the little guy to the big corps.
    Wish our PM (Trudeau) could stand for all our industries like this.

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    1. Standing up for the little guy against the big corps? Like the real-estate students from Trump University, currently facing multiple law suits for using its corporate size and lawyers to bilk students for literally nothing. I mean, would you pay actual money for YouTube TED lectures? What would you do if you paid money for Realtor education and all you got was a list of videos you could get for yourself for free anyway? Would you act like that “little guy standing up to the big corporate education scam” and sue?

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      1. I know you have TDS, but please move past your NPC talking points of #orangemanbad
        Trumps net worth has gone down as president unlike the Clintons/Obama. I wonder why?

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        1. So when your hero does the exact thing that you hate, that’s a “talking point”. When your anti-hero does the exact thing you hate, that’s time for action, right?

          Fact – Trump used corporate law to rip off hopeful realtors who were trying to do it correctly. If you don’t hate that, you’re a triggered sheeple.

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        2. TDS = True Discourse Science, yes I have that, thanks.

          NPC = NeuroParliament Club, the club for people who want politicians with actual brains. Yes, their talking points are #OrangeManBad, that’s correct.

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          1. No, TDS = Trump Derangement Syndrome. You obviously have it with your crazy posting numbers and psychotic rants about President Trump.

            Seriously, like another said, please get help.

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      2. Old Trombone is a scary left-wing extremist who still can’t figure out why he lost to Trump.

        He is proof the Democratic party has been hijacked by extremists and will lost again to Trump in 2020.

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        1. That’s TDS – where folks call me scary because I post anonymous comments in a virtual desert… Yup, I’m a threat to everybody that’s for sure!

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          1. Don’t ya’ just love how the Trumplicans come out of the woodwork when he “stands up for the American working man/woman” when it’s really just a BS deceit deception? Do the people here forget so quickly the companies T hired, got services rendered, and then refused to pay where they have to take him to court?? How about ALL his bankruptcies where he can’t get loans from AMERICAN banks?? So tired of people beliving his lying talking points as FACT, They are not!!!
            He “renegotiates” NAFTA for this…
            https://www.wsj.com/articles/nafta-rewrite-eases-threat-of-auto-tariffs-on-u-s-economy-1538517780
            While tariffs on aluminum & steel kill AMERICAN made manufacturing! Oh, and Barra gets her F’n $22M bonus for doing a great job while 14K-15K AMERICAN jobs are LOST!!! At Christmas time as well!! Oh, what a wonderful holiday season present and gives ALL those workers AND their families SOOOO much to be Thankful for after Thanksgiving , right?!?! Raise the BS flag people and BOYCOTT ANY FOREIGN MADE GM PRODUCT! Mexico AND Canada included! Trumpty Dumbty sucks @$$ as does all that buy into his BS and support him! He’s partly to blame and there should NEVER be ANY government corporate bailouts without contracts to ensure it is good for American workers/people in the LONG TERM!! This I also blame Obama for, so, I’m not partisan. I’m a bipartisan government hater, also known as a Moderate Independent but it always seems to get worse with Repukelicans in office. Liars, cheats, thieves, frauds, hypocrites, the lot of them starting at the TOP, DJT.

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          2. Don’t ya’ just love how the Trumplicans come out of the woodwork when he “stands up for the American working man/woman” when it’s really just a BS deceit deception? Do the people here forget so quickly the companies T hired, got services rendered, and then refused to pay where they have to take him to court?? How about ALL his bankruptcies where he can’t get loans from AMERICAN banks?? So tired of people believing his lying talking points as FACT, They are not!!!
            He “renegotiates” NAFTA for this…
            https://www.wsj.com/articles/nafta-rewrite-eases-threat-of-auto-tariffs-on-u-s-economy-1538517780
            While tariffs on aluminum & steel kill AMERICAN made manufacturing! Oh, and Barra gets her F’n $22M bonus for doing a great job while 14K-15K AMERICAN jobs are LOST!!! At Christmas time as well!! Oh, what a wonderful holiday season present and gives ALL those workers AND their families SOOOO much to be Thankful for after Thanksgiving , right?!?! Raise the BS flag people and BOYCOTT ANY FOREIGN MADE GM PRODUCT! Mexico AND Canada included! Trumpty Dumbty sucks @$$ as does all that buy into his BS and support him! He’s partly to blame and there should NEVER be ANY government corporate bailouts without contracts to ensure it is good for American workers/people in the LONG TERM!! This I also blame Obama for, so, I’m not partisan. I’m a bipartisan government hater, also known as a Moderate Independent but it always seems to get worse with Repukelicans in office. Liars, cheats, thieves, frauds, hypocrites, the lot of them starting at the TOP, DJT.

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  4. or else what? he is going to hold his breath and become a different shade of orange?

    how about moving his and his daughter’s schlock empire to the united states? leading by example is a foreign concept to him.

    whatever happened to that carrier deal in indiana? after throwing some money their way, they still moved manufacturing to mexico.

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    1. Have you heard that she used her personal emails for official use, opening up America’s Government to foreign hackers? Seriously, lock her up! Ivanka, that is…

      Use personal emails for US govt business? Or should get locked up, right?

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    2. NPC talking points alert from “Steve.”. Lol

      Thank you Mr. President for standing up for the common man to big Liberal corporations and their leaders who make a killing off increased company stock prices after dumping American workers.

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      1. TDS again!

        Ivanka emails – talking points
        Hillary emails – a threat to US security.

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  5. The question GM CEO Mary Barra is where is she planning to build the 20 ‘new’ electric vehicles especially with 5 EV planned for introduction by 2020; it sounds if Barra is planning to build the EV in China and Mexico.

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    1. There’s still plenty of assembly capacity remaining in GM’s assembly plants. By 2023, most of the models will be new or will have gone through an MCE

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    2. Your spot on and it highlights what virtually all corporate models are, find the most cost effective market to produce your product while limiting labor, shipping, import (tariffs) fees. Germany and Japan have done that in the US. I know, I worked for a Japanese company in N.E. and it was amazing how many people, sheeple never understood WHY they did what they did. Only were virtually grateful for the job and not realizing how they were being used while being forced to work 12hr shifts based on a JDM model which screwed with virtually ALL personal or holiday plans. Yes, you had to work ANY holiday that fell on your 12hr schedule as it rotated.

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  6. Tough words from a tough man that can salute a North Korean general, yet can’t honor the sacrifices of American heroes because his makeup might run in the rain. Tough words from a tough man that celebrates the flow of oil from the perpetrators of an American resident’s murderers. Tough words from a tough man who tells migrants they won’t be admitted asylum unless they come to legal ports of entry… and then, to the delight of his demented followers, backtracks and orders tear gas be fired at defenseless, scared and starving WOMEN and CHILDREN.

    Wake the f’ up.

    This happened after the tough guy’s nothing NAFTA revisions, after the tough guy rolled back fuel economy standards that help sell small cars, after the tough guy slashed taxes for GM and his corporate “job creator” pals.

    This happened ON his watch. As a result OF his watch. Right under his fat, orange nose.

    This tough guy KNEW of the closures. Yet, naturally, this tough guy spent Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday… like all tough guys do… golfing!

    This tough guy is no tough guy. This guy is first-rate p-u-s-s-y. A first-rate imbecile. Con. Fraud. And pathetic joke.

    And you, my tough guy loving friends, are some kind of gullible.

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    1. Trump won…you lost…election over two years…time to Move On…and get help with that Trump Derangement Syndrome.

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      1. That’s all you got? Try refuting anything that Reggie stated, you can’t. So sit down in front of the tube, turn Faux and try to stop picking your nose.

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  7. DJT pretending he’s relevant.

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    1. Notice “John Hart”, “Old Trombone” and “Steve” always show up together? Right, Sean?

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      1. …don’t forget crazy “Reggie”

        Lol

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        1. Laugh it up. The joke is on you.

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      2. Notice coward hiding behind a fascist handle

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  8. Trump won the Presidency…Hillary and you lost…Hillary will never be President…Jokes on you, buddy.

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  9. Enough of the political bickering!

    The issue at hand is that a knee-jerk reaction is resulting in thousands of lost jobs for US and Canadian workers! And I don’t like it one bit! I’m neither for or against this current administration, but I am behind this approach to preserve American interests and protect our economic stability! Mr. Trump is right! GM had better resolve these issues or they’ll find themselves even further down the automotive totem pole! How much crap can this company take before the market begins a mass exodus away from their product?!

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  10. Here is another fact that gets in the way of the peanut critics here.

    The reason the Blazer did not come to Lordstown is the line would need a full replacment. The local union leader acknowledged that the paint show would need a complete replacment.

    To give an idea of the cost. Just changing the line to the Cruze was $351 million dollars with out a new paint show a few years back.

    The line in Mexico was already producing Hummers and had a larger paint shop.

    So just saying GM should and or Trump should of just does not wash.

    Sorry if the facts or dollars get in the way.

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    1. “Sorry if the facts or dollars get in the way” Yep, so does Barra’s $22 MILLION bonus and GM’s record profits. Guess it’s ok to import all GM vehicles too, right? A US manufacturer that doesn’t manufacture in the US anymore would be ok with you, right?? GM could do the right thing but it won’t at the expense of AMERICAN workers and that’s ok with you as well, right? Here’s a question for you and all your wisdom, do you own GM stock or an employee facing a layoff???

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