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

[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.

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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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