Former President Donald Trump says the United States auto industry will be wiped out by outsourcing to Mexico if Vice President Kamala Harris wins next month’s presidential election.
“They’re the biggest factories ever built for cars, they’re going to wipe out this country,” he continued. “If she wins, and she doesn’t know what the hell she’s doing … every speech I’ve made having to do with cars and tariffs, I’ve mentioned how threatened our country’s been by Mexico.” Last week, Trump said he saw the auto executive again, who told him that the plans to build the giant factories in Mexico had been put on hold because they believe the former president will beat Harris in the election and threaten them with tariffs.
“I said I’m going to put … the highest tariff in history. I see the guy by accident, and he said they’d abandoned ,” Trump continued.Trump, though, said he is deeply invested in shielding the American auto industry from devastation at the hands of Chinese automakers building plants in Mexico to then sell their cars in the U.S. market.