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23 big companies that just promised billions under Trump

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rump said more than $8 trillion has been pledged since the election, calling it one of the strongest private sector responses in U.S. history.

He praised the companies for bringing jobs and manufacturing back to America, and emphasized themes like "Made in the USA," lower taxes, tariffs, energy expansion, and AI innovation.
 
1. Hyundai, represented by José Muñoz, is investing $21 billion, including $5.8 billion for a new steel plant in Louisiana that will create at least 1,500 jobs. Trump described it as "a beauty" and applauded Hyundai for building in America.


2. CMA CGM, led by Rodolphe Saadé, will spend $20 billion on ports, shipping, and logistics infrastructure, including a new air cargo hub in Chicago. This investment is expected to create 10,000 jobs and support the U.S. shipping industry.

3. Toyota, with Ted Ogawa in attendance, is putting $88 million into expanding hybrid vehicle production at its West Virginia factory. Trump noted he’d visited the facility and called it "fantastic."

4. Anduril, led by Brian Schimpf, is investing $1 billion in a new drone and defense technology facility in Ohio. The plant will focus on autonomous weapons systems and add thousands of jobs over time.

5. Amazon, represented by Doug Herrington, is investing $4 billion this year, with more expected, focused on logistics and cloud infrastructure across the U.S.


6. Venture Global, headed by Mike Sabel, is putting $18 billion into liquefied natural gas expansion in Louisiana, supporting U.S. energy independence.

7. Siemens USA, under Barbara Humpton, is investing $285 million to grow advanced manufacturing operations and create nearly 1,000 skilled jobs.

8. Pratt Industries, led by Anthony Pratt, has committed $5 billion to expand its American recycling and packaging facilities, creating thousands of jobs in several states.

9. Chobani, founded by Hamdi Ulukaya, is investing $1.7 billion, including $1.2 billion for a new dairy plant in New York. Trump joked the U.S. might start exporting yogurt thanks to Chobani’s growth.

10. Bel Brands USA, led by Yvonne Gerard, is putting $350 million into expanding cheese and snack production. After this, all Babybel cheeses sold in the U.S. will be made with American milk.

11. Schneider Electric, represented by Aamir Paul, is investing $700 million into U.S. energy infrastructure. It is the largest investment in the company’s 135-year history.

12. Johnson & Johnson, under CEO Joaquin Duato, will invest $55 billion in new manufacturing and technology upgrades across the country.

13. Eli Lilly, led by David Ricks, is putting $27 billion into expanding domestic pharmaceutical production and new facilities.

14. Novartis, represented by CEO Vas Narasimhan, plans to invest $23 billion in building or expanding 10 drug manufacturing facilities in the U.S.

15. Genentech, part of the Roche Group and led by Ashley Magargee, announced a massive $50 billion commitment to biotech manufacturing and research.

16. AbbVie, with Rob Michael at the helm, is investing $10 billion to build four new pharmaceutical plants across the U.S.

17. Thermo Fisher Scientific, led by Marc Casper, is expanding its operations with a $2 billion investment into medical supply and diagnostics manufacturing.

18. Merck, under Rob Davis, will spend $9 billion to grow its domestic vaccine and drug production capacity.

19. Abbott Laboratories, led by Robert Ford, is investing $500 million to improve facilities in Illinois and Texas, especially for diagnostics and medical devices.

20. IBM, with Arvind Krishna as CEO, announced a $150 billion investment to grow U.S. research, chip development, and AI technology.

21. GE Aerospace, led by Larry Culp, is putting $1 billion into factories across 16 states to build jet engines for both commercial and military aircraft. Trump praised the company’s leadership in aerospace innovation.

22. SoftBank, led by Masayoshi Son, is partnering with Oracle and OpenAI on a total $700 billion investment in AI infrastructure in the U.S. This includes the largest private sector project in American history to support the development of advanced computing.

23. Apple, represented by CEO Tim Cook, is investing $500 billion to build factories and expand operations across seven or eight U.S. states. Trump noted this was a major shift for Apple, which previously concentrated production overseas.
 
I'll be the first to admit I am wrong if all this comes to fruition and the blowback from tariffs doesn't cause worsening economic situations. But why does this seem to good to be true? If it was this easy and all we had to do was enact high tariffs and billionaires would kindly build factories and pay Americans more than their foreign counterparts. Then why were tariffs abandoned?
 
I'll be the first to admit I am wrong if all this comes to fruition and the blowback from tariffs doesn't cause worsening economic situations. But why does this seem to good to be true? If it was this easy and all we had to do was enact high tariffs and billionaires would kindly build factories and pay Americans more than their foreign counterparts. Then why were tariffs abandoned?
Its not just tariffs that are selling them on investing here. Trump is presenting them with business friendly incentives, I'm sure.

The reason nobody has done it before him is because of Washington corruption. They have been filling their pockets in exchange for selling Americas future for pennies on the dollar.
 
rump said more than $8 trillion has been pledged since the election, calling it one of the strongest private sector responses in U.S. history.

He praised the companies for bringing jobs and manufacturing back to America, and emphasized themes like "Made in the USA," lower taxes, tariffs, energy expansion, and AI innovation.
And along with all the money DOGE is saving are we all going to get ten thousand dollar checks?
 
😂😂😂

Sounds like someone was given the job of rounding up future business plans that were already planned by companies and putting them in a nice little news brief for a press release so Donnie could say “Look what I did”

The Hyundai plant - #1 on that list - was announced before Trump was even POTUS, for example. With a stated construction start date of 2026. They hope it will be up and running by 2029.

I swear, MAGAs will gobble up any shit that Dear Leader feeds them without doing ANY research to validate the information.


Lazy.


Siemens? Again - goes back to mid-2024.

Tied to Biden’s CHIPS Act and investment. That’s US taxpayer numbers in investment -

 
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rump said more than $8 trillion has been pledged since the election, calling it one of the strongest private sector responses in U.S. history.

He praised the companies for bringing jobs and manufacturing back to America, and emphasized themes like "Made in the USA," lower taxes, tariffs, energy expansion, and AI innovation.
🤣🤣🤣
“Trump said” = he’s lying
 
Chobani:

This is 20 years in the making. It’s funny how life works, how our journey works. Somehow, you come back home, and here in this moment, we are home,” Founder and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya said




Someone let me know if ANY of these plans have actually been because of Trump.

Because they all seem to be typical business plans that have already been in the works for some time.
 
1. Hyundai, represented by José Muñoz, is investing $21 billion, including $5.8 billion for a new steel plant in Louisiana that will create at least 1,500 jobs. Trump described it as "a beauty" and applauded Hyundai for building in America.


2. CMA CGM, led by Rodolphe Saadé, will spend $20 billion on ports, shipping, and logistics infrastructure, including a new air cargo hub in Chicago. This investment is expected to create 10,000 jobs and support the U.S. shipping industry.

3. Toyota, with Ted Ogawa in attendance, is putting $88 million into expanding hybrid vehicle production at its West Virginia factory. Trump noted he’d visited the facility and called it "fantastic."

4. Anduril, led by Brian Schimpf, is investing $1 billion in a new drone and defense technology facility in Ohio. The plant will focus on autonomous weapons systems and add thousands of jobs over time.

5. Amazon, represented by Doug Herrington, is investing $4 billion this year, with more expected, focused on logistics and cloud infrastructure across the U.S.


6. Venture Global, headed by Mike Sabel, is putting $18 billion into liquefied natural gas expansion in Louisiana, supporting U.S. energy independence.

7. Siemens USA, under Barbara Humpton, is investing $285 million to grow advanced manufacturing operations and create nearly 1,000 skilled jobs.

8. Pratt Industries, led by Anthony Pratt, has committed $5 billion to expand its American recycling and packaging facilities, creating thousands of jobs in several states.

9. Chobani, founded by Hamdi Ulukaya, is investing $1.7 billion, including $1.2 billion for a new dairy plant in New York. Trump joked the U.S. might start exporting yogurt thanks to Chobani’s growth.

10. Bel Brands USA, led by Yvonne Gerard, is putting $350 million into expanding cheese and snack production. After this, all Babybel cheeses sold in the U.S. will be made with American milk.

11. Schneider Electric, represented by Aamir Paul, is investing $700 million into U.S. energy infrastructure. It is the largest investment in the company’s 135-year history.

12. Johnson & Johnson, under CEO Joaquin Duato, will invest $55 billion in new manufacturing and technology upgrades across the country.

13. Eli Lilly, led by David Ricks, is putting $27 billion into expanding domestic pharmaceutical production and new facilities.

14. Novartis, represented by CEO Vas Narasimhan, plans to invest $23 billion in building or expanding 10 drug manufacturing facilities in the U.S.

15. Genentech, part of the Roche Group and led by Ashley Magargee, announced a massive $50 billion commitment to biotech manufacturing and research.

16. AbbVie, with Rob Michael at the helm, is investing $10 billion to build four new pharmaceutical plants across the U.S.

17. Thermo Fisher Scientific, led by Marc Casper, is expanding its operations with a $2 billion investment into medical supply and diagnostics manufacturing.

18. Merck, under Rob Davis, will spend $9 billion to grow its domestic vaccine and drug production capacity.

19. Abbott Laboratories, led by Robert Ford, is investing $500 million to improve facilities in Illinois and Texas, especially for diagnostics and medical devices.

20. IBM, with Arvind Krishna as CEO, announced a $150 billion investment to grow U.S. research, chip development, and AI technology.

21. GE Aerospace, led by Larry Culp, is putting $1 billion into factories across 16 states to build jet engines for both commercial and military aircraft. Trump praised the company’s leadership in aerospace innovation.

22. SoftBank, led by Masayoshi Son, is partnering with Oracle and OpenAI on a total $700 billion investment in AI infrastructure in the U.S. This includes the largest private sector project in American history to support the development of advanced computing.

23. Apple, represented by CEO Tim Cook, is investing $500 billion to build factories and expand operations across seven or eight U.S. states. Trump noted this was a major shift for Apple, which previously concentrated production overseas.


Any word on when those groceries and rents are going to be coming down? My belts about as tight as it can go!
 
😂😂😂

Sounds like someone was given the job of rounding up future business plans that were already planned by companies and putting them in a nice little news brief for a press release so Donnie could say “Look what I did”

The Hyundai plant - #1 on that list - was announced before Trump was even POTUS, for example. With a stated construction start date of 2026. They hope it will be up and running by 2029.

I swear, MAGAs will gobble up any shit that Dear Leader feeds them without doing ANY research to validate the information.


Lazy.


Siemens? Again - goes back to mid-2024.

Tied to Biden’s CHIPS Act and investment. That’s US taxpayer numbers in investment -

The OP is the most naive poster here.
 
Its not just tariffs that are selling them on investing here. Trump is presenting them with business friendly incentives, I'm sure.

The reason nobody has done it before him is because of Washington corruption. They have been filling their pockets in exchange for selling Americas future for pennies on the dollar.
Can you show me anything on that list that is NEW and wasn’t already in the works before Trump and tariffs?

I’ve gone through and randomly selected several and they’ve already been in the works….some for years.

I don’t have the time right now to go through the entire list, nor do I feel inclined to do all of the homework for the class.
 
Chobani:






Someone let me know if ANY of these plans have actually been because of Trump.

Because they all seem to be typical business plans that have already been in the works for some time.
Yep, funny how they just took credit for something with infrastructure approved, FAST tracked in fact, in 2024.

In March 2024, New York State awarded the county $23.6 million through the FAST NY grant to help with infrastructure preparations.
 
rump said more than $8 trillion has been pledged since the election, calling it one of the strongest private sector responses in U.S. history.

He praised the companies for bringing jobs and manufacturing back to America, and emphasized themes like "Made in the USA," lower taxes, tariffs, energy expansion, and AI innovation.
So he lies, since BirdInHand just showed several on your list that did not pledge "since the election" as those were already in the works prior to it.

Are you going to be honest here and admit they're lying?
 
Yep, funny how they just took credit for something with infrastructure approved, FAST tracked in fact, in 2024.
Yeah…I just grabbed random numbers from that list and…get this…googled.

While drinking my coffee and making breakfast over here.

And surprise, surprise…nothing “new”.


Waiting for someone to show me even ONE thing from the list that IS brand new and directly the result of Trump and/or the tariff wars.
 
rump said more than $8 trillion has been pledged since the election, calling it one of the strongest private sector responses in U.S. history.

He praised the companies for bringing jobs and manufacturing back to America, and emphasized themes like "Made in the USA," lower taxes, tariffs, energy expansion, and AI innovation.
Trump also promised health care, infrastructure, 100,000 jobs from Foxconn and so much more last time. He told hundreds of families in Ohio not to sell their homes. The jobs never came back. He also guaranteed Carrier employees in Indiana they wouldn't lose their jobs. They lost their jobs to Mexico. So far this time he promised to lower the cost of living, End both the ME war and Ukraine wars on day one.

So far, we've seen major Stock Market losses, 284,682 federal employees randomly fired destroying many, many families. We've seen Musk claim $2T in savings, then $1T in savings, now it's totaled up to $160B in savings with an estimate of a cost of $122B to pay for the DoGE services, and Musk is being run out of town while the board at Tesla is talking about replacing him. (WSJ)

Given all this and so much more I don't even remember, I would tend to be just a tad skeptical about what Trump says.

I'm not saying that none of this will ever happen but getting excited because Trump says something is just a little cultish given his propensity to constant lying.
Trump also said that Mr. Garcia will never come back from El Salvador. There are rumors circulating claiming the US government is in the process of bringing him back.
 
Can you show me anything on that list that is NEW and wasn’t already in the works before Trump and tariffs?

I’ve gone through and randomly selected several and they’ve already been in the works….some for years.

I don’t have the time right now to go through the entire list, nor do I feel inclined to do all of the homework for the class.
Well, with some posters that would just be giving your homework to the dog that eats the homework and then vomits it back as word salad.
 
Its not just tariffs that are selling them on investing here. Trump is presenting them with business friendly incentives, I'm sure.

The reason nobody has done it before him is because of Washington corruption. They have been filling their pockets in exchange for selling Americas future for pennies on the dollar.
You can't honestly claim "nobody has done it before him", when half the list or more is all company investments being done before Trump was elected or took office. He didn't have anything to do with most, if not all of these.
 
Yeah…I just grabbed random numbers from that list and…get this…googled.

While drinking my coffee and making breakfast over here.

And surprise, surprise…nothing “new”.


Waiting for someone to show me even ONE thing from the list that IS brand new and directly the result of Trump and/or the tariff wars.

Biden again.

He haunts Trump.
 
I'll be the first to admit I am wrong if all this comes to fruition and the blowback from tariffs doesn't cause worsening economic situations. But why does this seem to good to be true? If it was this easy and all we had to do was enact high tariffs and billionaires would kindly build factories and pay Americans more than their foreign counterparts. Then why were tariffs abandoned?
You are right to be skeptical. Billionaires don't often **** with their own bottom line, and especially not in the name of patriotism.
If they did, we wouldn't need to "force" them into it.
 
You can't honestly claim "nobody has done it before him", when half the list or more is all company investments being done before Trump was elected or took office. He didn't have anything to do with most, if not all of these.
It's much easier to just believe what your told than actually do the work of seeking out the facts. It's why Fox does so well.
 
Yeah…I just grabbed random numbers from that list and…get this…googled.

While drinking my coffee and making breakfast over here.

And surprise, surprise…nothing “new”.


Waiting for someone to show me even ONE thing from the list that IS brand new and directly the result of Trump and/or the tariff wars.
You won't find it. I had AI do an in-depth look, but it exceeds the 5000 characters of the forums. I included it as a zip file with a Word document inside for those interested.

A few do look like they expanded on existing initiatives recently, but that still wouldn't meet the original narrative.
Summary

What emerges from this detailed review is that while many of these projects reached the public spotlight with “new” 2025 announcements, almost all were the result of multi-year planning cycles. Key policy frameworks—the CHIPS Act and state-level initiatives like FAST NY (evidenced by Chobani receiving a $23.6 million grant in March 2024)—have been laying the groundwork behind the scenes for a long time.

This broader context helps explain why investments like the Hyundai steel plant, Siemens’ manufacturing boost, and even Apple’s reorientation toward U.S. production have roots that stretch well before the more recent announcement dates.
 

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Its not just tariffs that are selling them on investing here. Trump is presenting them with business friendly incentives, I'm sure.
Rolling back some EPA headwinds will attract new growth
 
You won't find it. I had AI do an in-depth look, but it exceeds the 5000 characters of the forums. I included it as a zip file with a Word document inside for those interested.

A few do look like they expanded on existing initiatives recently, but that still wouldn't meet the original narrative.
Thank you!

You are a true team player!
 
Can you show me anything on that list that is NEW and wasn’t already in the works before Trump and tariffs?
Lolz... Your post are a hoot and so easily debunked and shown to made from a point of ignorance.

Imagine eating breakfast over here and just a simple Duck and Go search reveals


Johnson & Johnson Increases U.S. Investment to More than $55 Billion Over the Next Four Years​


New Brunswick, N.J. – MARCH 21, 2025

Today, Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) (the “Company”), healthcare’s leading, most comprehensive innovation powerhouse, announced manufacturing, research and development, and technology investments of more than $55 billion in the United States over the next four years. This represents a 25% increase in investment compared to the previous four years and builds upon the Company’s already elevated U.S. investment levels resulting from the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act.


IBM Unveils $150 Billion Investment in America to Accelerate Technology Opportunity​


ARMONK, N.Y., April 28, 2025

 

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