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July 26, 2018
Trump's American Roadtrip
Why did the taxpayer pick up the tab, for travel and security to a closed, private venue ?
First leg of the journey- President Donald Trump touched down at St. Louis Lambert International Airport Thursday afternoon en route to U.S. Steel's Granite City Works
"The president was greeted by Missouri Gov. Mike Parson upon landing at the St. Louis airport, before taking a motorcade across the river to Illinois."
"Flanked by his daughter, Ivanka Trump, the president took a brief tour of the Granite City steel plant"
"Speaking to the invitation-only crowd gathered at a warehouse on the plant grounds" (Granite City Works Steel Coil Warehouse on July 26, 2018, in Granite City, Ill.)
But, the protesters were ignored.
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https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article215580800.html
The steel plant at the center of Trump’s visit is in the congressional district of Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Bost of Murphysboro, who is facing a tight re-election contest against Democratic challenger Brendan Kelly, the St. Clair County state’s attorney. Bost arrived with Trump on Air Force One.
It was Trump's steel tariffs, that led U.S. Steel to begin producing raw steel at the sprawling factory seven miles northeast of downtown St. Louis, again-
https://www.stltoday.com/business/l..._064757ce-044e-5fec-bd00-5f1eb5a1be5c.html#19
March 8, 2018
"Pittsburgh-based steelmaker attributed the move to an expected rise in demand for domestic steel after Trump’s decision last week to impose tariffs of 25 percent on imported steel and 10 percent on aluminum. Workers should start being recalled later in March and the restart process could take up to four months, ending more than two years during which the plant’s raw steel-making blast furnaces sat cold."
https://www.stltoday.com/business/l...cle_2e4a9d19-3b51-5025-a341-39cedacded37.html
In a speech that strayed from steel making to touch on North Korea, Russia, "fake news," the upcoming release of gross domestic product estimates and agriculture, Trump pledged that he would continue to support the steel industry for national security reasons.
Trump goes off script-
"Look at all those cameras.
All those cameras.
Every stop I get all those cameras."
"This never happened to Obama.
This never happened to Bush.
This ( the re-opening of a U.S. Steel plant in Downstate Granite City) didn’t happen."
"They just follow."
"They’re dying to see us make a little bit of a mistake."
"They analyze every word.
They say, ‘Did he say that?’
‘Could it have been.’
‘Did he say something positive about Russia?'
'I think he loves Russia.’ ”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...anite-city-20180726-story.html#nt=oft02a-2la1
Any words for the agricultural parts of Illiniois ?
Midwest farmers only a few dozen miles away (from Trump's celebration and state elelection campaign), are increasingly anxious about losing access to markets for their soybeans, corn, pork and other products
Missouri Farm Bureau President Blake Hurst, who farms corn and soy in northwest Missouri, told the Post-Dispatch Wednesday. “It certainly implies these trade disputes will be going on for several months if not years, and that’s not good news for American agriculture."
"...overall, prices have declined on worries over trade disputes. Hurst said Chinese importers are turning to Brazil and Argentina for soybean imports and offering less to American exporters to make up for the retaliatory tariffs their country placed on American soy."
“There isn’t a single commodity that Missouri farmers produce that hasn't gone down in the last 90 days and isn’t selling for less than the cost of production,” Hurst.
https://www.stltoday.com/business/l...e_064757ce-044e-5fec-bd00-5f1eb5a1be5c.html#1
July 26, 2018
Trump's American Roadtrip
Why did the taxpayer pick up the tab, for travel and security to a closed, private venue ?
First leg of the journey- President Donald Trump touched down at St. Louis Lambert International Airport Thursday afternoon en route to U.S. Steel's Granite City Works
"The president was greeted by Missouri Gov. Mike Parson upon landing at the St. Louis airport, before taking a motorcade across the river to Illinois."
"Flanked by his daughter, Ivanka Trump, the president took a brief tour of the Granite City steel plant"
"Speaking to the invitation-only crowd gathered at a warehouse on the plant grounds" (Granite City Works Steel Coil Warehouse on July 26, 2018, in Granite City, Ill.)
But, the protesters were ignored.
Watch out for bnd - spam from someone pretending to offer i-phone junk
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article215580800.html
The steel plant at the center of Trump’s visit is in the congressional district of Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Bost of Murphysboro, who is facing a tight re-election contest against Democratic challenger Brendan Kelly, the St. Clair County state’s attorney. Bost arrived with Trump on Air Force One.
It was Trump's steel tariffs, that led U.S. Steel to begin producing raw steel at the sprawling factory seven miles northeast of downtown St. Louis, again-
https://www.stltoday.com/business/l..._064757ce-044e-5fec-bd00-5f1eb5a1be5c.html#19
March 8, 2018
"Pittsburgh-based steelmaker attributed the move to an expected rise in demand for domestic steel after Trump’s decision last week to impose tariffs of 25 percent on imported steel and 10 percent on aluminum. Workers should start being recalled later in March and the restart process could take up to four months, ending more than two years during which the plant’s raw steel-making blast furnaces sat cold."
https://www.stltoday.com/business/l...cle_2e4a9d19-3b51-5025-a341-39cedacded37.html
In a speech that strayed from steel making to touch on North Korea, Russia, "fake news," the upcoming release of gross domestic product estimates and agriculture, Trump pledged that he would continue to support the steel industry for national security reasons.
Trump goes off script-
"Look at all those cameras.
All those cameras.
Every stop I get all those cameras."
"This never happened to Obama.
This never happened to Bush.
This ( the re-opening of a U.S. Steel plant in Downstate Granite City) didn’t happen."
"They just follow."
"They’re dying to see us make a little bit of a mistake."
"They analyze every word.
They say, ‘Did he say that?’
‘Could it have been.’
‘Did he say something positive about Russia?'
'I think he loves Russia.’ ”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...anite-city-20180726-story.html#nt=oft02a-2la1
Any words for the agricultural parts of Illiniois ?
Midwest farmers only a few dozen miles away (from Trump's celebration and state elelection campaign), are increasingly anxious about losing access to markets for their soybeans, corn, pork and other products
Missouri Farm Bureau President Blake Hurst, who farms corn and soy in northwest Missouri, told the Post-Dispatch Wednesday. “It certainly implies these trade disputes will be going on for several months if not years, and that’s not good news for American agriculture."
"...overall, prices have declined on worries over trade disputes. Hurst said Chinese importers are turning to Brazil and Argentina for soybean imports and offering less to American exporters to make up for the retaliatory tariffs their country placed on American soy."
“There isn’t a single commodity that Missouri farmers produce that hasn't gone down in the last 90 days and isn’t selling for less than the cost of production,” Hurst.
https://www.stltoday.com/business/l...e_064757ce-044e-5fec-bd00-5f1eb5a1be5c.html#1
