Ford has already canceled its plans to build a new $1.6 billion factory in Mexico. President-elect Trump has taken credit for this, and Ford is at least playing along, calling its decision to instead create 700 new jobs in the U.S. a “vote of confidence” in Trump’s impending presidency, even though the company denies that it was “a deal” with Trump or that it was done under pressure. “We did it for our business,” as CEO Mark Fields put it.
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