Fact-Checking What Donald Trump Said in His Latest Interview With TIME
What Trump Said: “Look, we’re building more automobile plants in the United States, and bigger ones, than we’ve ever built before.”
The Facts: Instead of building new factories, automakers appear to be largely adapting current ones.
General Motors has also announced plans to convert a number of internal combustion engine plants—located in Michigan, Tennessee, Ohio, and Kansas— to EV production as it moves to end the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035.
Hyundai announced that it will invest $5.8 billion in a steel plant in Louisiana to produce steel that will be used by Hyundai’s two existing U.S. auto plants.
Nissan has a target to reduce imports from Japan, aiming to produce 80% of the vehicles it sells in the U.S. domestically by 2030. However, the company has no plans to open a new plant.
What Trump Said: “We did a convention that had 107 million views, and it stupidly was put opposite the NFL opening, and we got more views, they got 25 million, we got 107 [million].”
