Auto Workers for Trump founder Brian Pannebecker appeared on Fox Business Thursday and said he gives credit to President Donald Trump for boosting a manufacturing base that the Obama administration abandoned.
During former President Barack Obamaās presidency, the manufacturing sector experienced a net loss of 303,000 jobs. During the first two years of Trumpās first term, however, the U.S. manufacturing sector added approximately 462,000 jobs before it had losses that resulted in a net decreaseā. During an appearance on āThe Evening Edit,ā Pannebecker said that Obama focused on creating a service-based economy but at the cost of Americaās manufacturing prowess.
āHe had given up on America. He wanted us to become a service-based economy. He had given up on us having a manufacturing base. Well, thatās a national security issue. If we canāt build military vehicles in our own country, we have to rely on other countries to build things for us,ā Pannebecker said.
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āWe are no longer a powerful nation. So Barack Obama basically had given up on America. When he said he was going to fundamentally change America, he was not lying. He did fundamentally try to change it,ā Pannebecker added. āDonald Trump said āNo, weāre not going to allow this to happen. Iām going to stand up and fight for the men and women who do these jobs every day.ā Thereās a reason why the Midwest was called the Rust Belt,ā Pannebecker added. āBecause for 30 or 40 years, the people who sat in the Oval Office had given up on the American worker. Donald Trump hasnāt. Heās going to stand up and fight for us, just like when he got up off that stage after heād been shot and pumped his fist in the air and said, āFight, fight, fight.ā We know heās going to fight for us, and thatās why we support him.ā
This week, a Rust Belt worker named Robert also praised Trump and his reciprocal tariffs, saying that, after years of economic neglect, they make his base feel heard and recognized. He said to journalist Mark Halperin that Trumpās actions resonate deeply with voters in swing states, where many have witnessed the decline of local industries.
āAnd I think that what everybody is forgetting is the fact that President Trump is speaking to his base in every swing state from where we are in Pennsylvania to Wisconsin to Michigan when the auto worker was there and said, āYou know, I have seen, over my lifetime, every factory, every plant, every mill closed down to the extent whereby heās making all sorts of noise,ā Robert told Halperin on ā2WAY TONIGHT.ā
Trump said that the imposition of tariffs on imported vehicles and auto parts aims to protect the auto industry, which he says has been negatively impacted by high levels of imports. The White House said that these measures are essential to counter unjust trade practices and bolster the U.S. automobile sector.
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