Did Foxconn’s Trump-Backed Move to Wisconsin Create Jobs or Catfish the Public? | The Daily Show

Since the last election, Trump has been a big proponent of the Taiwan-based electronic manufacturer Foxconn's opening of a massive factory in Wisconsin, promising thousands of new jobs. But millions of taxpayer dollars and zero manufactured goods later, it seems like the people of Wisconsin have been Fox-conned. Ronny Chieng investigates. #DailyShow #RonnyChieng #Wisconsin
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[@jlsudberry5862]

Don't worry folks, the republicans who praised this mess will get to whine about democrat spending

[@andrewright8033]

Even though Trump added 4.4 trillion to the debt and Biden only 2.8 trillion. Trump only created 184k jobs a month. Biden 276k a month. It's not even close who's better! We haven't even factored in Trump's propensity to commit felonies! Why is this race even close???

[@RyanBreaker]

Remember when they canceled the federally funded High Speed Rail project because they said it was going to be too expensive and we had to return all of the funds and we were sued for canceling contracts after they were started?

[@joelbuchanan471]

​@@RyanBreakermore Scotty Walker stupidity.

[@GodIsADelusion]

Republicans would be nothing if not hypocrites.

[@lppoqql]

Its funny how when the republicans do it. Suddenly this is not a "Chinese Company" anymore lol.

[@WhispyWoods.]

Do not forget the former governor Scott Walker and the part he played in this disaster. He should take the same amount or more blame than Trump. Scott Walker was the worst thing to ever happen to Wisconsin.

[@Mike13589]

Don't forget Vos, Sense Brenner and the rest of the gerrymandered who hijacked the state government from 2010-2020

[@janeshipley6993]

oh, you said it, whispy.

[@mindikruse6938]

💯👏I worked at WI D.O.R. at the time. I brought up several issues about this credit at meetings...then was retaliated against. Thank you for bringing this to everyone's attention. 🙏 Not that the Republicans in Northern Wisconsin will watch this.🙄 Scott Walker is a trash person. 💯👏

[@artboymoy]

@@mindikruse6938 I remember reading that it would cost $33K to create each job that Foxxcon was going to bring and thought, why don't they just give it to people to spend and it would probably do more for the economy than this thing would. Because from the get go, the proposal just looked bad to me.

[@mindikruse6938]

@@artboymoy this was brought up in meetings. Lol.

[@catherinewilliams9680]

this story needs to be told and retold every day between now and Election day in Wisconsin.

[@thesparklingdiamond]

I wish it helped. The outside Milwaukee snd Madison areas love Trump.

[@lolalalia4119]

Shout out to all the peeps from Wisconsin still voting for Trump! YOU guys are what keep America hilariously dystopian

[@thesparklingdiamond]

As a Wisconsinite, it is frustrating.

[@swampygaming2975]

They promised us 13,000 jobs and we got 13.

[@lolalalia4119]

@@thesparklingdiamond I can relate. I'm from Texas 🤪 but the average Republican Texas voter, like your typical nice neighbor, is progressive in practice but conservative in identity. You should see how mad they get when I point how progressive they are! It's hilarious 😂

[@TheGenericDavis]

Hey, we bungled it in 2016, but at least we scraped out a win for Biden in 2020.

[@ronalddelrosario7405]

Weird. A giant multinational corporation promising to do amazing things for the benefit of local citizens, taking resources from them, then reneging on those promises? It's almost like you can't trust their word.

[@Djturnt]

What about the promoter in chief

[@freda2758]

It's almost like it was a scam to win their votes in the upcoming presidential election. And it almost worked.

[@freda2758]

You would think people would wise up to Trump's scams, but they keep falling for them.

[@ICU1337]

Sounds like a colonizer to be frank.

[@Reddsoldier]

​@@freda2758The saying is fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me... Surely at fool me for the 300th time point the saying is "please remove the ability to make decisions away from me".

[@jerrydeanswanson79]

Wait a second. I am a proud life-long Wisconsinite. Am disappointed Scott Walker's name never surfaced. He, and his cronies, deserve some of the shame here!

[@brianwade879]

That's what I thought was missing. I knew there was something missing. The Governor's part in this ! There was a lot of skulduggery going on in Wisconsin politics during trumpf's years on the political scene.

[@LeftyPem]

Big time. Walker destroyed so much here during his tenure. Don’t get me started on collective bargaining for teachers.😠

[@DacBietViet-cl7gy]

Statefarm moved their HQ to TX during the Walker years

[@Bruce-sb1so]

@@LeftyPem Or any State employee ... Act 10.

[@Adonnus100]

I remember in 2016 when it was rumoured he would run and even win the nomination. Lol

[@ttomgast1769]

I'd like to thank Ronnie Chieng for visiting Wisconsin . I was wondering why my state felt funnier the other day , now i know why . Thanks !!

[@racheltewinkel8003]

When I was finishing my doctorate, Foxconn was at my university and trying to recruit people. They were very excited about hiring someone with my background and when I asked what kind of jobs they had neither recruiter could answer. They just wanted me to fill out an application online and interview... for a job that seemingly didn't exist. We knew this was a scam from day one.

[@rezonancedesign6319]

I heard they just hired people at the end of the year and fired them when they got the tax refunds. The people did nothing there, got paid to sit in an emlty office for a few months

[@Collin_J]

Wisconsin residents knew this was a grift from the get-go. Foxconn was walking back promises at every opportunity. The promises also made no sense. The first woman interviewed summarizes the weird downward progression.

[@cooperhough7583]

Con is literally in their brand name

[@jaegybomb]

It provided the push to get rid of the republican governor though so not all bad.

[@ronrolfsen3977]

@@cooperhough7583 And use an animal we consider "sly" in there name.

[@user-yc6pt6wu7o]

Unfortunately, outside the cities, that's not the case. The bootlicking in the rural areas is still pretty rampant. Full blinders on too.

[@avradio0b]

@@jaegybomb Unfortunately, it always takes longer to fix mistakes than it takes to cause them. We can only hope that voters' memory is long enough to keep all of Walker's mistakes in mind over the next few elections

[@brianheckman.235]

''Made a promise. Never delivered. Left everyone holding the bag." that's the art of the deal

Art of the _steal_

[@recall8780]

Taiwan, a fake China but also real

[@yvl3176]

If you delivered, there will be more expectations to feed. Hope is just easy, just talk and shows.

[@Falcon2609]

🤣

[@ericspahn1857]

Typical trump

[@user-dk4ph5wj5b]

I hope when Drumph shows up to the GOP convention in Milwaukee, there are thousands tgere to greet him wearing t-shirts that say, "my house got bulldozed for Foxxconn, and all i got was this lousy t-shirt, " or " I was promised a job at Foxxconn, and all i got was this lousy t shirt." Thanks to gold shovel man.

[@TheAureliac]

"and I still had to buy my own lousy t-shirt".

[@text97]

At least he tried, which is more than Obama or Biden can say!!!

[@Falcon2609]

​@@text97You love Obama don't you, clown?

[@charles5a]

​@@text97 That's not trying. That's an irresponsible use of taxpayers' money only for a photo Op.

[@frankie9953]

@@text97 lol, that's what you call trying??🤣

[@datboisteve6992]

F Trump, F Foxcon, get both outta my home state!! 😤

[@DeePark1410]

Show this in EVERY STATE!

[@gabrieladkinsGS]

I think they went worldwide. Let me hear the other side. Reality is somewhere in the middle as usual. I think Trump is leading in Wisconsin so I would love to hear the other side...

[@DacBietViet-cl7gy]

Orange Criminal is a loser

[@AnnaCinti]

@@gabrieladkinsGS Obtuse or learning disability? Anyone, anyone?

[@Cygnus888]

@@gabrieladkinsGS You heard the other side. They built 2 buildings and a sphere.

[@SuzukiKid400]

@@gabrieladkinsGSgood question: were there environmental issues or other supply chain issues setting up this facility? There has to be a reason why they just dropped everything and ran.

[@krishamilton489]

My question is why am I seeing and hearing this on the daily show and not CNN and all the other big networks

[@jaegybomb]

It's been a slow drip of broken promises for the last 7 years.

[@jamesreid8638]

CNN ownership is a major source of campaign funding for Trump, as is almost all large corporate media. The well has been poisoned.

[@brianwade879]

I heard about this before. It was covered on my local news channels CBS, NBC, ABC, WGN, and WTTW, Public television.

[@lloydchristmas6811]

Because that would require actual journalism and effort.

[@brianwade879]

In a neighboring State.

[@douglasboyle6544]

When will municipalities figure out that they're never equal partners in these schemes and that the corporations are lying to them?

[@nickwallette6201]

I refuse to believe that the former prez ginned up some big PR campaign, made promises, and then walked away leaving the whole thing to crumble in on the suckers that got involved. I'm SHOCKED. _SHOCKED,_ I tell you. Nobody could have ever seen that coming from a mile away...

[@garryrc]

The sticking point was that Trump wanted to rebrand it to Trumptronics.

[@thomasm8077]

I have driven by the Foxconn site and it's a ghost town. What a shame.

[@boggy7665]

For me, it's the nicest highway route for getting from I-94 to Wis-31 and points east. Four square miles of homes and farms obliterated, very wide highways with no traffic that will now need to be maintained or torn up, water and electric power infrastructure the area ratepayers are saddled with... a disaster.

[@palmtreeshenanigans]

@@boggy7665 I did watch a clip of Biden announcing a real contract for an American built and owned chip factory to be built on the land, and he did state very clearly this is not a drump scam but a real project. Convenient how the media does not report on things like this, so even residents don't now.

[@crIms0ngen]

@@boggy7665 With the Microsoft datacenter in process, at least some of the infra will be utilized, and from what I've noticed, where one DC goes in, you will get more from other providers, so the originally number of promised jobs may happen down the line.

[@smoothrocky1847]

So it could now be a foreign black op site or a future supermax…

[@glennzanotti3346]

The Democratic Party needs to get this story out, in a big way. Show people how Trump did NOT bring manufacturing back to the US, and how Biden has.

[@entropyachieved750]

Anything trump has to do with is a grift.

[@ges6959]

Not only that, but Foxconn is a Chinese company.

[@NathanCroucher]

@@ges6959 Headquarters: Tucheng District, Taipei, Taiwan

[@entropyachieved750]

@@ges6959 clearly Trump was getting tough on China... Whilst his daughter is gifted trademarks from China...

[@theamerican7080]

But he's not in charge...your beloved Biden is.

[@gabrieladkinsGS]

@@entropyachieved750 What did you spend your stimulus checks on?

[@GTaichou]

The fact that we lost a high speed rail project to this mess still makes me so angry.

[@playerpage]

High speed rail would never have happened either. Just ask California.

[@MrRight0930]

You don't need a "high speed rail“, learn the lesson from China, high speed rails are money sinks.

[@jd5997]

@@playerpageit would have as it was almost 100% on existing right of ways. Also, Wisconsin doesn’t have earthquakes to worry about.

[@gargargargar]

@@playerpageAsk California? Like, one of the only states that’s actually building one?

[@playerpage]

@@jd5997 Existing right-of-ways, but not existing track. High Speed Rail needs very slow curves, and California hasn't built any of it yet. $9 Billion budget ballooned to $200 Billion with no end in sight.

[@charliewise365]

Total scam! I was on the crew in Pleasant Prairie for the supposed ground breaking. He couldn't get in and out of there fast enough. No expansion, no new jobs.

[@maxbaldwin2960]

A small town taking out a billion dollar loan for a multibillion dollar corporation is wild. Unfortunately this is a common practice in America. Happens all the time with sports stadiums

[@internetpointsbank]

Exactly. Seems local gov was the one agreeing to this obvious scam.

[@tommcfadden5232]

It speaks to the limited intelligence of local politicians. Their prey for the big boys and girls.

[@smittyjjensin558]

​@@internetpointsbankthese local officials probably took those Supreme Court ordained "gifts" from Foxconn in exchange for the free land

[@guardianoffire8814]

@@internetpointsbank Lots of politicians oppose spending taxpayer money on arenas, but the public are easily manipulated by advertisements by billionaire owners of teams that create pressure for politicians to give in or get replaced.

[@XSpamDragonX]

​@@guardianoffire8814 1. Welcome to Democracy, people like sports. 2. The argument is that local governments "invest" in sports infrastructure in order to boost tourism and generate tax revenue. I wish the billionaire team owner in my town paid for everything, but I'm at least gonna analyse the situation with nuance.

[@marylyn3081]

Excellent, there's no other way to tell this ridiculous story!

[@cmst6408]

Indeed Ronny and Daily Show -big props. This should be shown to every American and community before any company is "investing" & asking for their investment😅😢

[@joshuagodinez5867]

This is the kind of piece that is needed in real journalism. I love the comedic delivery, but the message is real. Anyone claiming the last administration created jobs or did something great for the economy needs to explain this project and either, what they are doing to correct it or what they learned from it.

[@luise.perezv.8702]

From what I understand, giant data centers are one of the worst things that can happen to a town/city because of all of the electricity they consume to maintain the servers. They may consume even more electricity than the whole town combined

[@Tonyhouse1168]

And the wastewater created by server farms

[@heatherwendt7911]

Correction: whole county

[@rodsmith7032]

The clue was in the name , Fox - Con

[@lionrock2023]

that's not a clue.. that's a mission statement.

[@bogata903]

Lol... I really liked that one...😂

[@jogbon]

hide in plain sight as they say

[@polygraphliedetector]

and CONservative

[@mikeolsze6776]

They was CONserving the dollars flowing into their pockets ! 😂

[@warrenmohar7197]

One thing that isn't addressed is the 10s of millions of dollars that the State of Wisconsin spent on the road infrastructure, including upgrades to the I94 interstate to handle all the traffic. This move by Scott Walker diverted highway funding from communities in the rest of the state, leaving bridges and roads in disrepair.

[@phiksit]

Yep, the republican legislature hyped this up and rammed it through. No accountability. I told my local (R) legislator to vote no on this. He sent me a letter about how great it was going to be and he eventually got promoted to majority leader in the party... Devin LeMahieu... and Gov. Walker eventually got placed at YAF as ceo making a million dollars with salary and perks. More examples of republican "meritocracy" and accountability 🙄

[@zachlafond2652]

I live in Wisconsin. The roads here are beyond horrible. You'll need a jeep to get anywhere in a few years at the rate the roads are falling apart.

[@Bloodcurling]

Thought that was part of the whole highway modernization

[@tomsvircev1716]

@@zachlafond2652 except the Jeeps are falling apart too...

[@anthonygutierrez8933]

The highways look amazing, but man these residential streets are a mess. I work and used to live in Kenosha WI.

[@eduardoavila2252]

As a Wisconsinite, i’m glad you guys did this video. Everything about this is true!!!

[@TheGordeaux]

Ronny is brilliant. The Daily Show is on fire right now with Desi, Costa and Ronny especially

[@mabutoo]

So they took people's land and got nothing for it. Those people should get their land back.

[@latoyariggs3292]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 the irony

[@LOAF-do2xm]

Hmmm this sounds strangely familiar🧐

[@paulinelarson465]

Their homes can not be replaced! Their neighborhood can not be replaced ! Their former lives can not be restored ! Their accumulated wealth has been obliterated ! !

[@CCR971]

They should get their land, their homes rebuilt and millions in compensation! This was a SCAM from the jump. I'd love to know how much Trump and Scott Walker personally profited from this deal!

[@kloss213]

@@CCR971 Its was used to campaign on that is why it happened. Building old tech LCD TV when Led TV were most of the market to me was a red flag and I knew something was up as Walker and Trump said how great for WI this was.

[@vedadalsette1453]

Thank you, The Daily Show, for doing the news our MSM fails to do.

[@alinaitzal1173]

MSM, Sinclair and Sky news ALL profit from chaos. NONE of them profit from a well informed public. But tell me in a capitalist society, why they should care? Caring doesn't earn as much money as not caring. FACTS are sad.

[@SS-rf1ri]

Daily show is mainstream, unfortunately it's some of the only factual mainstream left.

[@manongagnon9704]

Apparentely, almost all mainstream medias CEO’s are Trumpers maga campaign donors.... so that's probably collusion at its best. 😡

[@clifford629]

MSM in WI covered this at the time and throughout the downward spiral.

[@popcorn8153]

@@clifford629 I was gonna say this - local news was always running stories on this dumpster fire from start to now.

[@xiong994]

I remember this. Lived in Madison when it happened. Ended up taxpayers of WI fronting this😡

[@joshmaclean8206]

I hope more people will talk about this. Great job reporting. Sad for all those who lost their houses.

[@YouDaMANRAJ]

That chapter 11 comeback was so quick witted

[@parkermorgan6890]

I loved it

[@simond.455]

That was brilliant! Go Ronny! 😆

[@carolmorris2705]

Eminent domain took away people’s homes. That’s a very sad reality.

[@kasondaleigh]

That is what I thought. Those were people’s homes and histories. Sad.

[@lostbutfreesoul]

Yeah, but how much do you think Foxconn made when it sold Microsoft 315 acres?

[@backupplan6058]

@RTPMinx paid for by the public as infrastructure spending. Why build new schools and libraries when you can build stadiums with fish tanks to make the rich richer.

[@elainehewitt6813]

Do I feel a class action suit coming on? I hope so.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Eminent Domain being used to give land to corporations is not what that doctrine was written for. It was written for roads and civil improvements, later railroads and highways.

[@rcvillapando]

FOX-CONN. Weirdly coincidental name! 🤣

[@naturalphenomenon1402]

"I'm a businessman - brilliant businessman. that's what we need to make America great and I'm the one. I will do for America what Foxcon did for Wisconson."

[@BeardOfRiker]

I hope this comes up at the Republican Convention in Wisconsin next week.

[@Tlab0624]

I don't even know why they would choose Wisconsin, after pulling that stunt. I hope it gets talked about and elevated all week.

[@BeardOfRiker]

@@Tlab0624 Wisconsin is a key swing state, so it makes sense from that perspective.

[@dannyarcher6370]

Trump is up 2.2 on Biden in Wisconsin in the Real Clear Polling average. 🤡

[@kimberlyevans9160]

Wouldn't it make a great billboard near the convention centre?

[@drewbreezy5854]

It will as a success I am sure

[@boggy7665]

It wasn't just Trump. It was supposed to guarantee Wis. Gov. Scott Walker's (R) reelection.

[@looncraz]

Yeah, but the only one to blame for not following-through is Foxconn and politicians still in office that didn't monitor the development and hold Foxconn accountable. Still, everyone involved has some blame to accept - there needed to be teeth to hold Foxconn accountable if they pulled out or under-delivered.

[@Rainer-qc2ol]

@@looncraz It's probably more like this A: "We agree to give you everything if you do this" B: "Okay" time goes by B: "Where's the money?" A: "Crickets" time goes by B: "K"

[@Heartwing13]

@@Rainer-qc2olit was actually probably like: “Hey, how’d you like some under the table “gifts” for giving us a bunch of land and a sweet deal?” “Isn’t this a bad deal for my constituents and the current landowners?” “Yea lol” “lol”

[@TrumpCantRead]

@@looncraz nah, Its on Trump

[@rashardclarke6347]

@@looncraz these are the same cult members who will blame biden if its rains to hard lollllllllllollllll

[@MBAinternetmktg]

People got paid off, that's the only way this grift happens on a large scale with public money.

[@TrumpCantRead]

@@MBAinternetmktg Nah, suckers believed Trump’s lies.

[@ep20091]

they failed to mention that this is what Foxconn does, they've pulled the same thing over and over and over. How did anybody think this would go differently?

[@Beauty_In_Simplicity]

My point exactly!

[@ncwordman]

Maybe they didn't have any choice? DonDon announced this after he was elected, if memory serves. All they knew beforehand was that he'd "somehow" bring back jobs. When he revealed his "wonder of the world," did they have the chance to say, No Thanks?

[@yanj111]

I have a classmate did some business with Foxconn and interacted with him, that's exactly his experience as well.

[@barcelonachair6487]

This symbolises the Trump admin.

[@newinhuman]

money laundering on a gov level

[@ensabahnur3104]

The way that man is still pitching it like it didn't Utterly crash and Burn is delusional, crazy, and scary.

[@Molson-xg9hs]

I live 15 minutes from the FoxConn site and work just up the road from it…and it’s amazing for the land it covers and the disruption that it caused, how very little actually goes on around there. Trump and Scott Walker got Mt Pleasant to invest in land and improvements that this giant corporation somehow couldn’t take care of themselves and now it just feels like a tax write-off for FoxConn.

[@MPMcDonald]

Howdy neighbor. Beautiful new roads that have hardly any traffic. Not that I'm complaining about that. However, now they've closed another road for who knows how long while they build the Microsoft facility so I have to takn another detour to work again.

[@ChubbyBlumpkinz]

Yet many people in the area still support Trump. It’s very wild

[@phiksit]

Sure, he does rallies in that general area of the state a bunch of times now.

[@user-yy4jo9pk2b]

@@phiksitThose kind of people are cultists who could care less about their neighbors.

[@grumpydave7329]

BECAUSE HE'S RACIST LOL.

[@lpr8858]

There are just as many who don't!

[@drewbreezy5854]

She said it best "morons."

[@przytulanka1979]

It's called Foxconn. What did they expect?

[@williamcat3159]

Foxes??

[@Mondfischli]

​@@williamcat3159...fleas 😁

[@kasondaleigh]

😂😂😂

[@CCR971]

Exactly! CON is right in the name. Village Idiots is the understate of the century.

[@johannesbruv1099]

I remember when I was younger foxconn was the biggest thing to my republican mom. Now she deflects anything when its mentioned.

[@InternetzVideoz]

You nailed this one. Right amount of hope, political promises, corporate greed, racism, and local incompetence.

[@845835]

Ronny Chieng is one of the greatest TDS correspondents ever.

[@davidgray8089]

We get it... you don't like facts or anything that exposes your king for the dumpster fire that he is, son.

[@eattherich9215]

I guess you must be one of TrumpsDelusionalSheep. Foxconn is a real life disaster that delivered none of the promises made.

[@philster6383]

He is hilarious!!!

[@dannyarcher6370]

Indeed, the Trump Derangement Syndrome is strong in him.

[@Carnivius_Prime]

@@dannyarcher6370 Where's the 13,000 jobs, Danny?

[@AeOdin]

...the whole of the nation is being grifted by the one percent...

[@drengr2759]

And we are all supposed to laugh and smile about it all.

[@ncwordman]

"Trump grifts the nation." ---There. I fixed it for you: got rid of the passive voice, the pointless ellipses, and focused on what the video is about.

[@Jacob-fh8qy]

"Ninety-nine percent of all grifting is done by the top one percent of all buisenessmen." --- Bernie Sanders, probably

[@goodfortunetoyou]

Why not have the large corporations place the money into escrow and have it pay out to the local community if the promised outcomes don't materialize?

[@dahn57]

Because the corporations would refuse to do that, and the community leaders wouldn't get kickbacks

[@user-uo9fr5ll7t]

I live in Wisconsin and can confirm everything is real. Including that weird ball!

[@iRDaBrit]

We knew it was a grift and a con from the beginning.

[@flea7510]

It's really sad what he sold folks, then bailed. Well, that's what happens when you trust in a grifter. Move on from the con...

[@bryanlipscomb8918]

Disappointed that they didn’t mention that it was Joe Biden who made that work with Microsoft going to that city.

[@TurnRiver]

Trump promised it, but Biden actually delivered on it. Why Biden doesn't talk much about the CHIPS act that he signed in is a mystery to me. He would win over the entire Midwest with that one.

[@TheEvolver311]

Ronny killing it

[@michaellockhart6632]

Ronny Cheing has a done a lot of great work and this one had me rolling. Might as well be entertaining while pointing out the fact once again, everything is a lie from trump, everything.

[@Kodakcompactdisc]

Never trust or believe donald.

[@thomasmcginnis3783]

signed, Every Mrs. tRump. 😯

[@craig8638]

Scott Walker.!

[@Anthony-dy5cq]

A republican for that matter.

[@MrDerekMagnuson]

Building a tech factory on farmland...wasn't that one of the plot points from Interstellar? "We didn't run out of flatscreen televisions, we ran out of food."

[@z32plus2]

Where are they finding enough sucker, cough cough, American workers to do the same low paying jobs as the Chinese worker does? The local farmer ain't gona do factory job, the cows on the farm ain't gona do that, City folks aren't moving to farm land work at these no future job

[@choreboy988]

WHY DIDN’T THIS COME OUT BEFORE MY UNION SPEECH ABOUT WHO WE SHOULD COLLECTIVELY VOTE FOR!? I WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BEST SPEAKER. NOW IM THE SECOND BEST, BEHIND THE GUY WHO SOMEHOW THINKS JFK IS STILL ALIVE!!!

[@matbroomfield]

The amount of effort Trump supporters must put into ignoring his awful behaviour must be exhausting.

[@brianwade879]

This is exactly how trumpf treated the working man and working families as a whole. Not just in Wisconsin !

[@Manolara1]

Then they have no energy to fact check or take a moment to realise anything.

[@matbroomfield]

@@brianwade879 Of course, but since local news is all owned by Trump extremist Sinclair News, they never hear the truth.

[@user-yc6pt6wu7o]

It's not. Just deny deny deny.

[@internetpointsbank]

Wasent this a Scott Walkers deal?

[@jjbeerj]

Shout out to our Governor at the time, Scott Walker! He was also a big part of this "deal".

[@SuSpicious9748]

Hence why he was voted out in the following election! We were not happy with this guy.

[@stereophonicsmom]

And Ron Johnson

[@whylekat]

CORPORATE GREED RUINS EVERYTHING

[@MrBBub]

Even if the Foxconn did happen, it was going to be a quarter-century before Wisconsin broke even on the deal.

[@KLondike5]

Governor Walker was Trump lite. Amazing how much money they wasted on this ridiculous project that had no chance of succeeding even in the best of mathematical scenarios.

[@clifford629]

and the terrible clawbacks for promises not kept.

[@EmperorNefarious1]

Pretty normal cooperate behavior. Con a town into big development spending or tax breaks. Build less than promised/bare minimum then leave asap or as soon as the contract ends. Don't let this happen to you! pay attention to your local leaders and yell at them when they go for that cooperate cheese.

[@TheAureliac]

In a county just north of Cartersville, GA, the board decimated existing standards to allow smokestacks and massive 24-7 trucking on a two-lane road despite well-organized and vehement opposition from the community. At one meeting we were asked "to call them chimneys because it sounds cozier" by one of the company reps. The commissioners involved, despite family ties there going back for several generations, simply moved on to more expensive pastures with some newly acquired wealth. And that's just what they publicly admitted to.

[@unknpoet74]

So basically through eminent domain a lot of people lost their houses and property for nothing

[@douglasarcher9544]

In Wisconsin, just advertise with an inexpensive 5 second ad, played every hour everywhere. "Wisconsin, Remember FoxConn." Put it on Billboards, lawnsigns. Nothing more need be said.

[@BarabooTycoon]

Someone should ask former governor Scott Walker how much he got out of the deal.

[@phiksit]

Well ultimately he got placed as ceo of YAF, a conservative youth grooming org with a million dollars in salary and perks.

[@carolion48]

Under subpoena

[@tloof2370]

Great video. I hope you make more like this one. America needs to know how they have been lied to over and over and over again.

[@brianwade879]

This truth, should be told, as often as trumpf lied, and continues to lie !

[@ShawnDillon-pw8lb]

…Wisconsin. The new,”what’s the matter with Kansas…”

[@jewlz715]

Can someone forward a link to this story over to the Biden administration? Would be a great talking point for nationally televised town halls and the presidential debates!

[@ronagoodwell2709]

Donald Trump + Foxconn + Wisconsin = Catfish. This may have been one of the biggest clusterf*cks in US history. Go Trump. To everyone who has voted- or will vote -for Donald Trump. You asked for him, you got him, you can keep him.

[@thomasmcginnis3783]

Sadly, not even close. Not even close for The Donald, FFS.

[@heathernks8]

​@@thomasmcginnis3783exactly, lol.

[@davidsalo8397]

No one spells this correctly. It's Fox Con.

[@WE-te3vp]

No no no I say in the voice of Consuela from family guy

[@missmiss6516]

It's the rest of us who'll suffer. I'm sorry for the most.

[@longforgotten4823]

Let’s not forget former Republican governor Scott Walker’s hand in this debacle.

[@syte2554]

100% grifting our tax dollars

[@amityislandchum]

I live in SE Wisconsin and have never heard of Foxconn or met anyone who works for it. Clearly they picked the correct name for it.

[@j0hnn13K]

What a surprise, must be that "art of the deal" in action right there. lol

[@7SlicesOfPizza]

Meanwhile president biden struck a deal with samsung to build factory in the US and they are almost done with building to actually create jobs and starting making

[@WE-te3vp]

As a person from Wisconsin I can honestly tell you it flew like a lead balloon

[@michaeld4861]

Better reporting than all of mainstream media.

[@davidhamilton5689]

This should be played on the big screens at the republican convention In Milwaukee

[@brians2351]

Ronny is absolutely brilliant in his delivery. Great review of a very sad outcome of a yet another election promise donnycon

[@apage123]

Everytime I hear about one of these huge carrot dangle projects I always think about the monorail episode from the Simpsons

[@genevievemartinez1153]

Classic Trump: the art of a deal - promise whatever you want knowing that someone else will deal with the consequences because nepobabies are immune to responsibility or logic

[@octothorpian_nightmare]

Every time someone shows up on socal media saying they work there, I ask them what they do and they never reply. Just weird sock puppet accounts.

[@SuSpicious9748]

Sounds like it's just a chinese bot farm built to spread disinformation and spy on American soil. Seems weird they needed all that land for just one small satellite dome. *insert brand new conspiracy theory here*

[@TrumpCantRead]

@@octothorpian_nightmare Where is “there”?

[@octothorpian_nightmare]

@@TrumpCantRead Foxconn in Mount Pleasant, ya know, where the interviews were.

[@LeechyKun]

What was that other one that Trump promised to bring back jobs lost by the company moving manufacturing to Mexico/China or something. They brought it back for a bit but then eventually still offshored it. Think it was Whirlpool or something.

[@kooale]

Chiengtastic, a real Chiengasm of a piece! How is this not a Lincoln Project or RVAT commercial, airing around the clock, in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pa., Ga. & Az.?

[@mooniejohnson]

Living in the state… f’ing catfished. My friend lost his house because of the idiocy surrounding it.

[@Dr_1212]

Stop the stupidity Trump For Prison 2024

[@STAWTEREHWYREVE-dx7si]

The smartest thing I have heard in decades!!!

[@Milaaq302]

But he's immune from prosecution for official presidential duties. Kind of like how Biden would be immune from imprisoning Trump prior to the election.

[@rhondaarnesen6684]

Absolutely brilliant reporting. Love the humor made in this debacle of an issue.

[@kathrynw3]

Wisconsin loves Trump, says Trump. I am sure the people who lost their land to eminent domain would argue with that lie.

[@cmw3737]

I think this is the first piece of satire that I've seen that points out the stupidity of seeing job creation as the be all and end all of politics.

[@reddrabbit5056]

Why is it that TDS has to be doing actual journalism for us.

[@ensabahnur3104]

Several outlets reported this years ago, there are several KZbin videos about this from news networks, even down Microsoft coming, and Biden talking about how Foxconn was the investment that never was, it was a thing.

[@scarlettuwu9582]

Thank you Ronni Chang, absolutely great piece I kinda love the comedic style and it’s actually impressive how relaxed and comedic the interview with Foxconn was (I don’t think that’s an easy thing to do)

[@thelifeofriley7668]

This only happened because the village officials wanted it. These officials said newly built homes were ‘blighted’, which allowed them to take the land and give it to Foxconn. If Mt. Pleasant didn’t want Foxconn, it wouldn’t have gotten off the ground. The trustees mentioned in the video are simple folks without any impressive qualifications. Some run with minimal to no opposition in the village election. On top of that there were just a handful of very young village employees who helped push this through. Trump and Foxconn didn’t push people out of their homes, it was Mt. Pleasant, 100%. Many stories online about it.

[@Deelove-yt4yc]

They took these peoples home for no reason

[@lowmax4431]

There is so much empty space in Wisconsin lol. Did they really bulldoze homes?

[@Deelove-yt4yc]

@@lowmax4431 yes ma'am they did imminent domain

[@MichaelG485]

​​@@lowmax4431Because it was going to be an LCD factory, they needed easy access to Lake Michigan.

[@lowmax4431]

@@Deelove-yt4yc ma'am? 🤔

[@bernhardhaas8424]

When trump is involved, a bankruptcy is normal 😊😅 His concept for business: i win, you lose and the trality is the other way round 😅😂😂🤣

[@noogie3784]

Think of all the people who died from Covid? Biden, just run the numbers, if people aren't affected by that, at least you tried.

[@SS-rf1ri]

That's how he ran America too, he won and we lost

[@emilynelson5985]

That ball looks really suspiciously similar to the giant surveillance array at Pine Gap…

[@gregwatts5178]

Wait, the company whose name is literally a combination of 2 synonyms for "trick" didn't keep their promises? I am astounded

[@morrispartow759]

Fox ,con, and Don all in the sentence. How appropriate.