Trump says US Steel opening 6 new plants, invented phone call about make-believe manufacturing jobs

[KelleyKramer]

Trump says US Steel is opening 6 new plants. That’s news to US Steel!

Trump invented a phone call about make-believe manufacturing jobs.

https://shareblue.com/trump-lies-us-steel-new-plants-jobs/



Proving his commitment to pathological lies, Trump completely fabricated a phone call from the CEO for U.S. Steel, who he claimed told him the company was undergoing massive expansion. On June 26, Trump tweeted, “U.S. Steel just announced they’re expanding or building six new facilities.”

This followed his announcement on June 20: “The head of U.S. Steel called me the other day, and he said, ‘We’re opening up six major facilities and expanding facilities that have never been expanded.’ They haven’t been opened in many, many years,”

But, as the Washington Post Fact-Checker reports, U.S. Steel won’t say any phone call took place. Their spokesperson told the Post, “To answer your question, we post all of our major operational announcements to our website and report them on earnings calls. Our most recent one pertained to our Granite City ‘A’ blast furnace restart.” So, no, there’s no major expansion in the works.

Trump has repeatedly used claims like this as evidence that he’s responsible for reigniting some kind of wave of manufacturing jobs in America. Now, Trump’s rate of lying has exploded, as he feels increasingly comfortable not only concocting fables of phone conversations, but also inventing new steel plant openings. “Trump made an astonishing 103 false claims over those seven days, an average of 15 per day,” Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star reported this week. “That shatters his one-week record of 60, which he had set in early March.

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[Scurrilous]

1. K&R

[mgardener]

2. YOU LIE !!!!!!

That is Republican civility I'm using.
I'm getting sick of saying it.
It is a daily occurrence.

[smirkymonkey]

3. You fat, ugly, lying fuck!

Resign already!

[Demsrule86]

4. In fact, much of the steel is recycled in steel plants here ...melted down for new uses...so the

tariff is driving these companies out of business and/or layoffs. My daughter works in a company that depends on China imports. There is a hugs ship of the stuff that now one will claim...the exporter forgot the clause that you own it on the ship so now the company says...we can't afford that. They have raised their prices which is already causing layoff from their buyers.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Shouldn't the SEC be investigating Trump for leaking or lying?

Either way, he was talking about major investment decisions by a publicly traded company when it's not the proper channels for such announcements.

[uponit7771]

6. Trump lies when silence would do him better

[BSdetect]

7. A year of hard labor for every lie.

[Mc Mike]

8. I predicted he'd do this, 3 + months ago.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1074&pid=10624

"...He told those Moon Twp morons he brought a new auto plant to Michigan. He probably told Michigan about all the coal jobs he made in W. Virginia. Then he'll tell W VA about the new steel mill he opened in PA.


None of them will catch on that none of them are working, in any state, in any industry d Rump 'saved'. "

[anneboleyn]

9. He has been lying, lying -- why don't his "supporters" care about such blatant lies?

Trump is clearly demonstrating that he considers the people that vote for him so stupid that they will believe the most ridiculous lies that can be easily revealed as lies. Don’t they see that they are not getting brand new manufacturing jobs and that steel companies, coal companies, etc aren’t opening? WHY DONT THEY CALL HIM ON THIS SHIT?! I will never understand.

He is blatantly lying about this — also, is it okay for the f’ing president to be making up such stories about the future dealings of companies?!