Trump Clowned Over Big Boastful Reply To Michigan Voter's Job Question: 'I Was Honored'
Donald Trump boasted and turned to his baseless false claim that he won a “Man of the Year” award in Michigan after a voter in the state asked him how he plans to protect U.S. jobs at a town hall-style campaign event on Friday.
The GOP nominee, in an event moderated by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), remarked on himself after hearing from someone named Ashley who identified herself as an employee at a Chrysler auto plant in the battleground state.
“With many jobs being outsourced as we speak, what actions will you take to ensure that our jobs stay in America so we can continue to build the best cars in the world here in Michigan,” asked the voter at the event in Warren, Michigan.
“So pretty much as we’ve been saying and what I want to do is that I want to be able to — look, your business — years ago, in this area, I was honored as the man of the year,” said Trump as he revived a long-debunked claim.
“It was maybe 20 years ago, oh, and the fake news heard about it, they said it never happened, it never happened.”
Investigations by HuffPostand CNN found no evidence evidence whatsoever of this happening.
Former Rep. Dave Trott (R-Mich.) previously revealed that the claim may stem from Trump serving as the keynote speaker at the Oakland County Republican Party’s 2013 Lincoln Day Dinner in the state.
Trump didn’t receive an award, Trott told MLive.com in 2019, but he was presented with a tie, an Abraham Lincoln statuette and a copy of the Gettysburg Address before giving a “rambling speech touching every topic under the sun.”
Trump, in his rambling response on Friday, added that he “didn’t know who it was” who presented him with the “honor.”
“The fakers back there, see the fake news. But they said. They said, ‘Oh,’ and they looked and it, you know, they said it never happened but I said, ‘I swear to you it happened.’ It did happen, I was man of the year,” said Trump before claiming that he touched on the auto industry in his “speech.”
Question:,What actions will you take to ensure that our jobs stay in America?
Trump: I was honored as the man of the year. Maybe 20 years ago. The fake news heard about it and said, it never happened… pic.twitter.com/eqOvGHNmiL— Acyn (@Acyn) September 28, 2024
Critics clowned the former president for getting “community noted” on X.
“Trump’s lie about getting some sort of man of the year award 20 years ago got an insane amount of fact checks 🤣,” wrote user @WUTangKids who pointed to the nearly two dozen sources cited under a clip of Trump’s remarks.
You can check out that and more takes on Trump’s response below.
Trump’s lie about getting some sort of man of the year award 20 years ago got an insane amount of fact checks 🤣 https://t.co/oF7PM1Q9FLpic.twitter.com/4qM5CLgD7y
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) September 28, 2024
It's the CVS receipt of Community Notes
— Sure Rants-Alot (@voxrob) September 28, 2024
KaMALa nEEDs tO bE mOrE sPeCiFIC aBOuT hEr pOliCiEs! https://t.co/hinTlufyso
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) September 28, 2024
Three things:
1) he is too old, incoherent & unfit to be president, clearly
2) if you’re voting for this guy, you need your own head examined
3) the ridiculous media frenzy over Harris not doing interviews ignores the fact that her opponent just talks nonsense & lies at his. https://t.co/mFe5FW2q4k— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 28, 2024
Phew, I was worried he was going to get too far into the weeds of policy there. https://t.co/KmyAOcjCZB
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) September 28, 2024
