Trump falsely claims he 'opened' Apple manufacturing plant that has run since 2013

After touring a Flex Ltd. facility in Austin, Texas that has assembled Apple's Mac Pro computers since 2013, Trump tweeted: "Today I opened a major Apple Manufacturing plant in Texas that will bring high paying jobs back to America." PolitiFact and other fact-checkers rated the claim false, noting the plant was neither built nor opened by Trump and predates his administration by six years; his administration's tariff exemptions had helped persuade Apple to keep Mac Pro assembly there rather than shift it to China. Fact-checkers noted this was the third time in 2019 Trump had inaccurately claimed credit for opening a facility he had merely toured, following similar false claims about a Louisiana gas facility and a Pennsylvania petrochemical plant. In the same tweet, Trump also falsely claimed Nancy Pelosi had "closed Congress," though the House was actively in session passing legislation that day.

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