In late July, President Donald Trump joined with Vice President Mike Pence, House Speaker Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, and Foxconn CEO Terry Gou at the White House in a bid to validate Trump's economic stewardship. Gou's company, a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer, best known as an iPhone supplier for Apple, was entering into an agreement with Walker's state to invest $10 billion in a gigantic 20 million-square-foot LCD television factory in southeastern Wisconsin.
With promises of as many as 13,000 new middle-class jobs, the event was supposed to be seen as proof that Trump and the Republicans were making good on their promise to resurrect American manufacturing. “This is a great day for America, a great day for Wisconsin, and it's a great day for Foxconn,” Walker said, calling the deal the “single largest economic development in the history of the state of Wisconsin and one of the largest in the history of this country.”
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