Trump says free trade destroyed jobs in the US auto industry. That's not the whole story.

Trump Uses Questionable Figure for U.S. 'Plants and Factories' Lost Since NAFTA

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. When President Donald Trump has talked about the need for higher tariffs on imports of foreign goods because of a decline in American manufacturing, he has often made the claim that “90,000 plants and factories” in the U.S. closed after the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico took effect in 1994. But that figure is questionable, and experts say other factors, …

Unions, Not Just Factories, Will Make America Great

Factory jobs are not inherently good jobs. Even if Donald Trump’s trade policies bring factories back to the United States, workers need unions to make those jobs well-paying and safe — and Trump has been the most anti-union president in years. United Auto Workers members on a picket line outside the Stellantis Toledo Assembly Complex in Toldeo, Ohio, on September 18, 2023. (Emily Elconin / Bloomberg via Getty Images) President Donald Trump and…

By Chris Isidore, CNN Much of President Donald Trump’s tariff rhetoric has focused on restoring factory jobs, particularly in the auto industry, which he claims were destroyed by bad trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). “American steelworkers, autoworkers, farmers, and skilled craftspeople… have really suffered greatly,” Trump declared as the new tariffs were implemented on April 2. “Foreign crooks have looted our fa…

Rivers: Canada’s Ailing Auto Sector – That Giant Sucking Sound

By Rivers April 16, 2025 BURLINGTON, ON   Ross Perot, who ran for president in 1992 had it right when he called NAFTA a ‘giant sucking sound’.  NAFTA has not been a great deal for America, or …

Donald Trump, Free Trade Champion

Victor Davis Hanson among others has been wondering aloud and in print why, if tariffs are bad, do so many countries have them on U.S. products? [...] The post Donald Trump, Free Trade Champion first appeared on The Liberty Beacon.

(CNN) – Much of President Donald Trump’s tariff rhetoric has focused on restoring jobs in factories, particularly in the automotive industry, which, according to him, were destroyed by bad trade agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). “Sider workers, auto industry workers, farmers and skilled American artisans... really suffered badly,” Trump said during the implementation of the new tariffs on April 2. “Foreign scamm…