Gaslight Nation: Trump Pretends He Saved Kentucky Auto Jobs (He Didn't)
The thing we have to remember about Donald Trump in the weeks, days and months to come is this: He lies. He lies every day, as often as he wants, about trivial things and about important things. It's why I'm putting no stock in the leaks coming out of Trump Ivory Tower about cabinet members, and it's why everything he tweets should be considered a lie.
Tonight, he tweeted this:
Just got a call from my friend Bill Ford, Chairman of Ford, who advised me that he will be keeping the Lincoln plant in Kentucky - no Mexico
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2016
I worked hard with Bill Ford to keep the Lincoln plant in Kentucky. I owed it to the great State of Kentucky for their confidence in me!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2016
If you were to read those tweets, you might want to go see when it is that Ford announced they were moving production from their Kentucky plants to Mexico. My first instinct was to say, wow, so the corporate overlords are giving Trump some credibility!
I would have been wrong. So too, would you, if you read them that way.