I just read a column by Selena Zito in the NY Post in which she discusses the lack of coverage given to a big deal signed by President Trump in China this past week. Specifically, Chinese firms are going to invest about $84 billion in petrochemical plants in West Virginia over the next decade. That's a huge amount to be invested anywhere, but in West Virginia, it is an incredibly huge amount. The state has been hit by the Obama war on coal so badly, that things are rough there. Bringing this huge investment and the tens of thousands of jobs that it will produce is a major success by President Trump that the media has ignored.
I say that the media ignored this, because until I read the column today, I had never heard of the deal and I follow the news closely. How can the mainstream media be so averse to reporting anything good that the President does that it could black out such a major success for the people in West Virginia? It's a disgrace.
Zito makes a further point that is also worth repeating. These investments are in West Virginia which is one of the strongest Trump states in the country. The President doesn't need to campaign much in WV for 2020; if he can't win there, he can't win anywhere. Meanwhile, both Ohio and Pennsylvania have similar areas with raw materials that would feed these petrochemical plants. Building the plants in OH or PA would get Trump support from voters in critical swing states that could be central to his re-election effort in 2020. Trump, however, promised the people of West Virginia that he would bring them jobs, and he has kept that promise. Just try to imagine Hillary Clinton deciding to keep a promise rather than doing something that might help her politically. Okay, I realize that's impossible to imagine.
The President deserves congratulations for this major deal. The media deserves a spanking for blacking out news of the deal.
I say that the media ignored this, because until I read the column today, I had never heard of the deal and I follow the news closely. How can the mainstream media be so averse to reporting anything good that the President does that it could black out such a major success for the people in West Virginia? It's a disgrace.
Zito makes a further point that is also worth repeating. These investments are in West Virginia which is one of the strongest Trump states in the country. The President doesn't need to campaign much in WV for 2020; if he can't win there, he can't win anywhere. Meanwhile, both Ohio and Pennsylvania have similar areas with raw materials that would feed these petrochemical plants. Building the plants in OH or PA would get Trump support from voters in critical swing states that could be central to his re-election effort in 2020. Trump, however, promised the people of West Virginia that he would bring them jobs, and he has kept that promise. Just try to imagine Hillary Clinton deciding to keep a promise rather than doing something that might help her politically. Okay, I realize that's impossible to imagine.
The President deserves congratulations for this major deal. The media deserves a spanking for blacking out news of the deal.
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