What did Donald Trump claim about the economy on 20 Oct 2026?
Donald Trump, President of the United States ·
We went 49 years without one car plant being built, they were closing, and now we're building more car plants than at any time in history.
New car plants were built in the U.S. throughout those decades; Toyota opened its Georgetown, Kentucky, plant in 1988.
Toyota opened its Georgetown, Kentucky, vehicle plant, the company's largest manufacturing facility outside Japan, in 1988, and it builds the Camry, Avalon and Lexus ES 350 (Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, release of October 19, 2015).
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- Midterm campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina.
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