Trump Should Cheer Not Criticize Ford Motor, Bill Ford Says

Automaker is ‘as American as you can get,’ chairman says
He says Trump knows accusations of U.S. job cuts are wrong

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By Keith Naughton

September 29, 2016 at 6:24 PM UTC

Updated on

September 29, 2016 at 7:36 PM UTC

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Ford Motor Co. is “as American as you can get” and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump should celebrate the company for its U.S. commitments instead of criticizing it for building small cars in Mexico, the great-grandson of its founder said.

Trump is wrong for saying the automaker is cutting jobs in the U.S. and knows it, Bill Ford, the company’s executive chairman, said Thursday at the World Mobility Leadership Forum near Detroit. Bill Ford said he has a relationship with Trump and doesn’t understand why the candidate has singled out the automaker.