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highplainsdem

(62,854 posts)
Mon May 4, 2026, 04:32 PM Monday

Trump: The Trump manufacturing boom is what they're calling it.

Trump: "The Trump manufacturing boom is what they're calling it. Now, the plants will be opening over the next period of time. Pretty soon."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-05-04T20:25:38.262Z
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Captain Zero

(8,949 posts)
11. Yep. Is Trump Merch still manufactured in China?
Mon May 4, 2026, 05:08 PM
Monday

Are all the furnishings in his hotel manufactured in the US?

Etc.

exboyfil

(18,370 posts)
4. Missile plants
Mon May 4, 2026, 04:38 PM
Monday

Left that business in 1992. Maybe I should go back. I see a golden road to the future for Raytheon and the gang.

Captain Zero

(8,949 posts)
13. No Raytheon left in Indianapolis but RTX is here
Mon May 4, 2026, 05:11 PM
Monday

There are RTX facilities in Indy which I guess Raytheon is a subsidiary of that now.


Edit is update to most of this original post.

exboyfil

(18,370 posts)
15. Missed that recent merger
Tue May 5, 2026, 12:56 PM
11 hrs ago

Eventually are all the defense companies going to merge into one company just like the commercial airline industry?

BlueTsunami2018

(5,047 posts)
6. Over the next period of time....
Mon May 4, 2026, 04:39 PM
Monday

That could mean anything from an hour to a thousand years.

Very reassuring.

Vinca

(54,257 posts)
10. The only manufacturing is being done in the kitchen. People are trying to make food go twice as far.
Mon May 4, 2026, 05:05 PM
Monday
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