Trump again takes credit for jobs he didn’t create
Fiat Chrysler says Trump had nothing to do with it.
On Sunday, FCA US, the parent company of Fiat and Chrysler, announcedthat it will spend $1 billion to expand plants in Michigan and Ohio and create 2,000 more jobs in the U.S. The move, as the company made clear in its press release, is simply the next phase in an expansion plan it announced last year and comes on top of billions of previous investments that created thousands of jobs.
“This plan was in the works back in 2015,” Jodi Tinson, a spokeswoman for FCA, told ThinkProgress. “This announcement…was just final confirmation.”
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When asked directly if it was true that politics and the election had no influence on the announcement, she said, “Correct.”
But that didn’t stop President-elect Donald Trump from tweeting about it without that context. “It’s finally happening,” he said, describing FCA’s plans as well as Ford’s recent announcement that it would invest in a Michigan plant. “Thank you Ford & Fiat C!” he tweeted.
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