From The Washington Post: Trump blames union leader for GM job cuts in Ohio — jobs the president once vowed he’d save
By HEATHER LONG
President Trump blamed a small-town union leader Sunday for not doing enough to save a General Motors factory in Lordstown, Ohio, that shuttered on March 6, causing about 5,400 job losses in a struggling part of the country.
“Democrat UAW Local 1112 President David Green ought to get his act together and produce. G.M. let our Country down, but other much better car companies are coming into the U.S. in droves,” Trump tweetedSunday. “I want action on Lordstown fast. Stop complaining and get the job done! 3.8% Unemployment!”
The tweet came minutes after a segment on Fox News Channel suggested that Trump might have trouble with his reelection campaign in the Rust Belt. Fox News played clips from a Trump rally in Youngstown, Ohio — very close to Lordstown — where the president told the crowd in July 2017, “don’t sell your house” because the jobs are “all coming back.”