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Trump’s Auto Jobs Record Looks Nothing Like What He Claimed in Detroit

More Americans were employed in the sector when Biden left office.
US President Donald Trump at a Detroit Economic Club on Tuesday.Photographer: Emily Elconin/Bloomberg
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“So we’re at a Ford 150 plant,” Donald Trump told reporters at a Ford factory this week in Detroit, leaving the alpha out of the alphanumeric name of America’s best-selling pickup.