This is a list of lies to watch for in Trump’s speech in Michigan today, however, the list fits all Trump rallies . . . he spews the same lies every time he opens his mouth.
Donald Trump and, JD Vance are the most extreme, anti-worker presidential ticket in American history.
We know Trump will spew more lies in Michigan today, and his new sidekick, JD Vance, is sure to join in. And . . . these lies will pop up again and again at every Trump and Vance rally.
A rundown of the facts before those of you in Michigan get bombarded with lies:
Takeaway 1: Donald Trump screwed over workers as a developer and as President. He left office with the worst jobs record in modern history, and his Project 2025 plans would do even more damage.
Trump’s Broken Promises to Michigan: Trump promised Michigan “won’t lose one plant” and a “complete revitalization of the Michigan manufacturing sector.”
- Trump’s Reality: Under Trump, GM’s Warren plant closed and workers lost jobs, Fiat Chrysler closed their assembly plan in Detroit, and Ford closed its Romeo engine plant. Under Trump, Michigan lost hundreds of thousands of jobs – including tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs.
Meanwhile, in Joe Biden’s Michigan: More than 350,000 new jobs.
FACT: As president, Donald Trump shipped jobs overseas and routinely broke his promise to protect American jobs, including in Michigan.
- Politifact: Trump lost 8,800 auto jobs, Joe Biden has created more than 127,000
- Bloomberg: The Offshoring of U.S. Jobs Increased on Trump’s Watch
- CNN: Trump told GM workers he could save their plant, but it’s gone for good
- Reuters: How offshoring rolled along under Trump, who vowed to stop it
- Reuters: Trump steel tariffs bring job losses to swing state Michigan
- According to the New York Times, 18 counties that Trump carried in Michigan in 2016 lost manufacturing jobs under his presidency.
FACT: Trump left office with the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover. The Trump-Vance Project 2025 agenda will trigger an “inflation bomb” and raise taxes on Michiganders by more than $2,500 a year.
- Washington Post: Trump will have the worst jobs record in modern U.S. history. It’s not just the pandemic.
- A Moody’s analysis showed Trump’s agenda would trigger a recession by mid-2025, inflation would rise, and the U.S. would have 3 million fewer jobs.
- Another analysis by the Peterson Institute found that Trump’s agenda “would cost jobs, ignite inflation, increase federal deficits, and cause a recession,”
FACT: Trump has a long history of screwing over workers and contractors.
- As a developer, Trump screwed workers and contractors out of the pay they were owed.
- Hundreds of workers and contractors have accused Trump of not paying his bills over the years.
- As President, Donald Trump rolled back worker protections for workers pay and safety.
Takeaway 2: Trump’s hand picked Vice Presidential nominee, JD Vance, is no friend to workers.
FACT: JD Vance opposes the PRO Act to support organized Labor
- Vance opposes the PRO Act, which union leaders have spent years trying to get passed, and would address loopholes in labor law and expand protections for workers seeking to unionize.
- Vance explained his stance by saying, “I think it’s dumb to hand over a lot of power to a union leadership that is aggressively anti-Republican.”
FACT: Time and time again, Vance has sided against unions in the Senate
- Vance has cosponsored the Teamwork for Employees and Managers Act, which would “effectively undermine labor unions by allowing voluntary ‘employee involvement organizations,’ which would not be covered by collective-bargaining agreements and could be dissolved by an employer.”
- Vance rejected pro-worker nominees to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) who were supported by labor unions.
- Earlier this year, Vance voted in favor of a resolution to strike down the NLRB’s updated joint-employer rule, which would have given workers more leverage when organizing at companies—like Amazon—that rely heavily on third-party contractors, by forcing both employers to participate in labor negotiations.
REMINDER: Vance is no friend to labor
- AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said, “A Trump-Vance White House is a corporate CEO’s dream and a worker’s nightmare, and called Vance “a rubber stamp” for Donald Trump’s “anti-worker vision.”
- President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA Sara Nelson said, “Don’t be fooled—behind all his slick rhetoric, JD Vance is just another shill for the corporate class who will sell out workers to corporate America. This ticket isn’t pro-worker or pro-union. It’s the billionaire ticket through and through.”
- Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), a longtime union ally, roasted Vance on a United Auto Workers (UAW) picket line in their home state – pointing out that despite Vance’s lip service to the labor movement, it was his first time joining a picket line.
Takeaway 3: Despite Trump’s lies to the contrary, inflation is at its lowest level since March 2021 and falling, unemployment has been cut by more than half in the last four years, and inflation-adjusted wages are higher than at any point pre-pandemic.
FACT: Under President Biden, wages are rising – particularly for lower income workers.
- President Biden’s leadership has produced the “fastest wage growth over the last four years among historically disadvantaged groups”
- Hiring and wages are up and growing under President Biden’s leadership.
- President Biden raised the minimum wage for federal contractors and tipped employees working on government contracts to $15 an hour.
FACT: Under president Biden, unemployment is low, inflation is falling, and our economy is the envy of the world.
- New York Times: “Left-behind counties added jobs five times faster in the first three years of the Biden administration than they did in the first three years of the Trump administration.”
- Economic Policy Institute: “Fastest wage growth over the last four years among historically disadvantaged groups”
- Wall Street Journal: “Hiring and Wages are Up, Reinforcing the Economy’s Resilience”
- AP: “Manufacturing jobs have climbed to their highest totals in nearly 15 years. This is the first time since the 1970s that manufacturing employment has fully recovered from a recession, expanding by 789,000 jobs since Biden took office.”
- Forbes: “Consumer Price Index: Core Inflation At Lowest Level In 3 Years”
- Axios: “The United States economy grew faster than any other large advanced economy last year — by a wide margin — and is on track to do so again in 2024.”
Takeaway 4: Despite Trump’s lies, there is no “electric vehicle mandate.” Under Joe Biden, America is competing again.
FACT: There is no electric Vehicle Mandate
- PolitiFact: “Despite the U.S. sector’s challenges, Trump is wrong to say there is a ‘Biden mandate’ to replace gasoline-powered cars with EVs.”
- New York Times: “Especially potent is the false claim that the new rule is a ‘ban’ on conventional cars, analysts said. The E.P.A. regulation is not a ban. Rather, it requires carmakers to meet tough new average emissions limits across their entire product line, starting in model year 2027 and ramping up through 2032.”
- CNN: “Facts First: Trump’s claim is false. Biden has not mandated that ‘everybody has to have an electric car’ or outlawed cars powered by gasoline.”
FACT: Trump slowed American innovation in the EV industry, undermining our competitiveness abroad. Under President Biden, America is laying the groundwork for a boom in EV manufacturing, growing jobs and increasing our competitiveness.
- Wired: “In the Age of Trump, China Eyes Electric Car Dominance”
- President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act “is designed to wean the United States off the Chinese supply chain for electric vehicles (EVs)” and “was specifically written to move the manufacturing supply chain for clean energy technology like solar panels and EV batteries away from China and to the United States.”
- President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is triggering the “biggest auto-factory building boom in decades,”
Takeaway 5: Trump and Vance’s Project 2025 plans will raise taxes on middle class families by $2,500 and give giant handouts to corporations.
FACT: Trump and Vance’s Project 2025 agenda will raise taxes on working and middle class Americans by $2,500 while lining the pockets of giant corporations – just like Trump did as President
- PIIE: “Under Trump’s agenda the top 1% will see a boom, while working and middle class families get a tax hike.”
- Washington Post: “Trump has asked wealthy donors for donations, promising large tax breaks in return if he retakes the White House.”
- CAP: “Trump’s latest idea to replace all income taxes with tariffs … would dramatically increase income inequality and raise taxes for the bottom 90 percent of households. It would raise taxes for middle-income households by $5,100 to $8,300 while cutting taxes for the top 0.1 percent by at least $1.5 million annually.”
- CAP: “The combination of [Trump’s] 10 percent tax on all imports and a 60 percent tax on all imports from China would raise taxes for a typical family by $2,500 each year. This includes a $260 tax on electronics, $160 tax on clothing, a $120 tax on oil, and $110 tax on food.”
- Washington Post: “Your total tax burden will go up under Trump. Yes, up.”
The final takeaway? Donald Trump can’t hide from his record of shipping jobs overseas and screwing over workers to benefit himself and his billionaire donors. If JD Vance is looking to defend Trump’s failed record, he’s welcome to try.