Back in March, as the United States came to grips with the COVID-19 pandemic, General Motors announced that it would mass-produce medical ventilator equipment in anticipation of a surge of COVID-19 patients in need of treatment. A deal was made with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to produce tens of thousands of new ventilators, but the deal stalled momentarily, prompting a response from President Trump urging GM to begin production as quickly as possible, as well as harsh criticism for GM CEO Mary Barra. However, the deal did eventually go through, and according the Barra, “all is well” between GM and President Trump.
GM CEO Mary Barra in 2018
Barra made the statement during a virtual fireside chat with media earlier this month, during which she was asked about the flare up between President Trump and General Motors.
When the deal to produce the ventilators stalled in March, Trump criticized GM in a flurry of tweets, saying that “as usual with ‘this’ General Motors, things just never seem to work out,” adding it is “always a mess with Mary B,” referring to the GM CEO. President Trump also suggested he could “invoke P,” referencing the Defense Production Act, under which the president could require a business to accept and prioritize a contract deemed necessary for national defense.
President Trump
However, according to the GM CEO, the deal to produce the ventilators was finalized prior to President Trump’s tweets, chalking it all up to a misunderstanding between Trump and GM. The president subsequently praised GM’s efforts.
“Let’s remember the period,” the GM CEO said during the recent fireside chat, referencing the chaos stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Barra added that she had since spoken to the president, and that currently “all is well.”
Ventilator produced at the GM facility in Indiana
Per the deal mentioned, General Motors retrofitted its facility in Kokomo, Indiana, to mass-produce medical ventilators, overhauling the facility in just three weeks to get production up and running. Previously, the facility produced small electronic components for various GM vehicles.
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Who CARES ??? The CLOWNS gone N November
You arrogant leftist buffoons are in for a big surprise in November.
“Buffoons”
You mean the people that don’t wear a safety mask during a pandemic. Those buffoons.
Yes, you lefty rioters!
Patrick,
Did you inject yourself with Clorox and stuck a blue light up your backside today, as your cult leader instructed you to do?
Even a moron like you surely knows that no one instructed anyone to inject Clorox, and further, if you were not a scientific alliterate, you’d know that light of certain wave-lengths do act as disinfectants and that intravenous disinfectants are under development. But you keep on being an ignorant neo-fascist; go tear down a statue or burn a “colonialist” book!
Patrick
Do you support the Anti-Fascist Association (ANTIFA)
No, I don’t support a fascist organization, even if it terms itself as anti-fascist. Do you support the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK)?
Trump does. He says he’s in love with Kim. Meanwhile Kim is building his nuclear capacity at a furious pace.
Putin, Kim and Xi have made a complete fool of him.
Unfortunately, Kim grandson does no longer write these beautyful letters to his dear friend Donald.
This Excellent relationship suffers!
Patrick
Covid 19 doesn’t care about your age, politics, race or nationality. Covid 19 is just looking for the next meat sack to infect.
I’m not surprised that he asked Xi Jimping for help in November
I’m a conservative and I’ve never voted for a Democrat for president. I also consider Trump to be a buffoon among other non flattering titles. As it currently stands the idiot doesn’t stand a chance at winning in November.
Trump wants to keep auto production in the USA..
Cadriver
If that was true, he would have tariffs on autos and auto parts coming in from Japan.
So how can Mary and Trump be on good industrial terms as she ships virtually all new production off shore to Korea ,China ,Brazil ,or Mexico, ? This statement is political speak at its most ridiculous Mary !
Contrary to what Trump says, manufacturing is at a 60 year low in the US, the trade deficit is setting records and the growth in the economy before the virus was anemic for the last 3 years. And let’s not forget that the deficit has exploded with all the tax cuts for the rich and now the helicopter money being distributed to corporations and corporate interest groups. Add to that the trillions being spent to artificially prop up stock markets.
I’m in financial investment and see all the numbers.
For publicly traded company’s…. Small and medium size company’s that are not public are doing much much better under Trump. Pubic company’s cut and outsource to make your numbers look better at the expense of everyone else. I look at the other numbers, I have a desk full of them.
Cadriver,
Really, the country is headed to a great depression. Numbers of publicly traded companies are so bad that most companies don’t even report them.
Not sure what numbers you’re looking at.
Public company’s must report there numbers. We as a small to medium manufacturing company are part of an association of other similar private company’s. Manufactures of this size are thriving and growing. Trumps tax cuts helped immensely. Having a tax cut for LLC is not a tax cut for the rich! The money saved made it easier to compete against cheap foreign manufactures and make more jobs in the USA, who could be against this??? Any fool who says otherwise knows nothing!
Public company’s will cut off and sell there arms and legs to look good short term to annalists and financial planers. Look at the once great General Electric.
Any fool who wants to educate himself is able to access the numbers which show that in the last 3 years, the manufacturing jobs have continued to leave the US. The tax cut was a populist move made to stir the cult followers to think that something proper was done. Unfortunately, this has just added to the deficit and the economy has continued to slow down, making this a waste of money. In the last 3 months, this incompetent bunch has blown 7 trillions which means that taxes will be going up regardless who forms the next gvt. When the second wave hits, at least 30% of small and mid-sized businesses will be shut down permanently. Tribalism will be the downfall of the US.
Bert, only fool is you. You sound like a ventriloquist dummy who mindlessly spouts out the propaganda, misinformation and lies that have been poured into your empty head by those who use you as the useless idiot you are, you then reliably and reflexively spew it back out with no more thought than a cat in its letterbox. Sorry for being so blunt. Good news is one day when you decide to think for yourself you can join the world of rational free thinkers. its never to late.
Must be outstanding at your “Financial Investment” career ripping off all us 401k & SEP investors for decades. Trump NEVER claimed US Manufacturing was anywhere near what it was decades ago. He’s on a mission to bring SOME of it back. The “deficit” is of ZERO concern to the Progressive Left if you have an ounce of non-kool aid soaked gray matter. Their Agenda & even Covid19 “Phase 4” proposed bill that thankfully went no where is trillions, 30-40 TRILLION as per Pocahontas & AOC. BTW my PPP Loan was a BIG help getting me through the last 2 months. Thanks Congress. Thanks Trump.
I’m sure you won’t change your mind when you’re in line at food banks and the welfare office or someone in your family gets taken out by a guy with an AR-15.
“Trump wants to keep auto production in the USA” Cadriver writes on June 26, 2020 at 4:12 am.
Well, wanting is one thing, understanding the world wide automobile production is something completely different. Wanting alone does not help, one has to know and know the how to, and understand what is possible in the first place.
Kinda impossible for a Trump who thinks that subtracting 7 from 100 is a near impossible problem to solve, as he explained in his recent interview on Fox news.
Everything is a misunderstanding with the talking orange.
So he did try to “grab” Mary, but she got away…
“Some people are saying” that he did try and Mary kicked-him in the balls. That’s why this deviant was sore for a while. 🤣
Now that explains his painful, hesitant and weak demeanour of a decrepit old man down the ramp…
HAHAHAHA TRUMP’S SO DECREPIT, HE SHOULDN”T BE PRESIDENT HAHAHA
*Votes for Biden*
Isn’t it sad that those 2 are the best that the US could come up with? Two old dogs whose time has passed and out of touch with reality.
Have you seen how sharp President Xi looks and the top level of the CCP? This is leadership. The US can’t even beat a simple virus while China has control of their country. Guess who just won WW3 and is about to assert itself all over the world as the only SUPERPOWER ON EARTH.
LEADERSHIP?!?!? What, you mean killing any opposition that rises in your country, censoring dissent by either force or death, raiding homes of known infectants with assault weapons to do God knows what, missing journalists, lying about the nature of the virus, etc., etc.? If you actually believe that China has control of their country, than I really pity you lol.
The only superpower on earth…keep it up, you’re a terrific mouthpiece for Xi.
Can’t wait for the touchy feely Biden ad campaign rolls out. CREEPY?!!!? Biden ON CAMERA sniffing multiple women’s hair & feeling up 14 year olds is classic. Not to mention the dementia factor ……
So you prefer the orange baboon with over 26 actual sexual assaults, ties to Weinstein, corrupt, racist, family history of looting the US government, no morals, killing 125K Americans to date, in the process of leading the US into bankruptcy…. And you think Biden is creepy? BTW, I usually vote Republican.
YEP. The UNCHECKED Progressive Left Agenda is FAR worse than that by miles. And IF you have a micron of Republican or Libertarian blood you would get that. Study up “Bert”.
Moss,
Another 40,000 Covid cases today and nearly 1000 deaths and climbing with the growth now moving to the red states. And this is only the 1st wave.
Most civilized countries are beating this. Why is the US non response the worst on the planet?
No doubt you will continue to mindlessly repeat the idiotic slogans and continuous lies…
I live in Jersey “Bert”. Ground Zero for Corona. I don’t need stats that are miniscule to what has happened to NJ & NY. 171k+ cases in NJ. It’s now down to less than 400 new cases per day. STAY OUT OF THE BARS America & you’ll minimize the virus. AND DO NOT put infected people in Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities like my DEMOCRAT Gov did and you’ll minimize deaths. COLLOSAL FAIL by our Dem Gov that has lead to 72% of NJ Covid deaths. The DEMOCRAT Govs of NJ, NY, PA & MI should be on trial for criminal misconduct leading to a horrific death toll in LTC & Nursing Homes. We’ll see….
I am sure they get along, after all, President Donald J. Trump is the epitome of what an Upper East Side gentleman should be and Mary is pretty classy herself.
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