DENTON, Texas — The Golden Age is heading back to the factory floor. Fox Business reports exclusively that President Donald J. Trump will make a surprise stop at the Peterbilt Motors plant in Denton on Thursday to highlight manufacturing, tariffs, deregulation, and the America First economy voters can see with their own eyes.
White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales framed the mission without apology: “President Trump will visit Peterbilt Motors in Denton, Texas, on Thursday to tout his pro-growth economic agenda that has created more than one million private-sector jobs, sparked trillions in new investments, lowered taxes, and reshored key manufacturing back to the United States. The President’s America First trade agenda is driving a manufacturing renaissance that will continue paying dividends for the great state of Texas and Americans across the country.”
Denton sits north of Dallas — truck country, not green-room country. An administration official said Trump will tour the facility and deliver remarks to workers. Peterbilt and sister brand Kenworth move about 30 percent of the truck freight in America. Paccar remains the only remaining American-owned high-volume heavy truck manufacturer, building trucks for 121 years. That is the kind of industrial heritage Democrats outsourced and Trump is determined to keep.
The visit is also midterms politics done the Trump way. White House sources told Fox Business the President plans a very busy domestic travel schedule into November. Denton will be his second Texas appearance this month after speaking at the Republicans’ midterm convention in Dallas and visiting the National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington. Barnstorm the economy. Let workers hear it first.
In the Oval Office on Monday, Trump previewed the argument he will take to Texas: “They’re all coming back. Hundreds of billions of dollars of plants are being built… Now we’re making it all.” Construction has added tens of thousands of jobs since he took office, and the White House points to more than $11 trillion pledged by countries and companies for projects that become factories, not press releases.
Patriots do not need a lecture from coastal economists. They need a President who shows up where the trucks are built. Thursday in Denton, Trump does exactly that.
