Biden rips Trump for using a ‘golden shovel’ at ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’ chip plant that went bust as he announces huge new investment
- Trump promoted the plant in 2017 as part of his “America First” agenda
- It went bankrupt when Foxconn dramatically scaled back its plans
- Now Microsoft is promising 2,300 union construction jobs and a similar number of permanent jobs
President Joe Biden flew to the battlefield in Wisconsin on Wednesday, where he tore up a planned $10 billion factory once touted by Donald Trump as a “con job” and ridiculed his predecessor for encouraging it.
He ridiculed Trump in Sturtevant, Wisconsin for cheering the massive factory project in Racine and declaring it the “eighth wonder of the world” while announcing a new Microsoft facility at the same site.
“He and his administration promised a $10 billion investment by Foxconn to build a new manufacturing complex that would create 13,000 new jobs. In fact, he came here with your Senator Ron Johnson, literally with a gold shovel in his hand, promising to build the eighth wonder of the world. Are you joking?’ Biden asked, drawing laughter from a crowd of supporters.
‘Look what happened. They dug a hole with those golden shovels,” President Biden said in Wisconsin, where he ripped Donald Trump for his boast about a giant Foxconn factory that failed to get off the ground.
‘Look what happened. They dug a hole with those gold shovels – and then they fell in.”
Look, they didn’t scoop up any other dirt – they did scoop up some dirt. 100 houses were bulldozed. They wasted hundreds of millions of dollars of your state and local tax dollars to promise a project that never happened. Foxconn turned out to be exactly a scammer.’
“Go and have a look,” he said.
Trump had announced the plan to much fanfare in 2017 as part of his “America First” agenda,” but the Taiwanese company drastically scaled back a few years later, citing ‘market fluctuations.’
Trump leads Biden in the battleground state by half a percentage point in the latest RealClearPolitics average, in a state that Trump carried in 2016 but Biden broke away from him in 2020.
Trump called the planned investment the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’
Biden stormed into his rival in a state where Trump has a narrow lead in the polls
Later, Biden met with campaign volunteers at the Dr. John Bryant Community Center
Biden took selfies with campaign volunteers as his reelection effort announced it was expanding, fueled by his repeated cash flows
In Wisconsin, as in the battlegrounds of Michigan and Pennsylvania, Biden is suffering from reduced support for youth, concerns about maintaining the support of black voters he enjoyed in 2020, and divisions over Israel’s war in Gaza.
He plans to meet with volunteers as his campaign, which is boosting staff and offices, announced a new $14 million ad buy.
Now Microsoft is promising 2,300 union construction jobs and a similar number of permanent jobs to run a data center there.
Microsoft President Brad Smith told the AP that the company had “an steadfast commitment to under-promising and over-delivering” and challenged the Biden administration on its role. Wisconsin Rep. Bryan Steil (R) said Biden doesn’t want to talk about his inflation policies.