Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has slammed Ford’s announcement that it is to move all small-car production to Mexico, saying it is “horrible.”
“We shouldn’t allow it to happen,” Trump said during a speech in Flint, Michigan – a state that used to be at the heart of U.S. car production but is seeing that decline with the latest announcement from Ford a further blow.
Trump said Ford’s move was “horrible.” “They’ll make their cars, they’ll employ thousands and thousands of people not from this country and they’ll sell the cars right through our border. No tax, no nothing, and we’ll have nothing but more unemployment in Flint and in Michigan,” he said.
Trump’s visit to Flint saw him touring a water treatment plant amid an ongoing drinking water contamination issue in the city. He used the visit as a vehicle to criticize Mexico, a country he wants to separate from the U.S. with a wall if he becomes president.
“It used to be cars were made in Flint and you couldn’t drink the water in Mexico,” he said. “Now the cars are made in Mexico, and you can’t drink the water in Flint. That’s not good.”
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