--- title: Ford Announces $1.2 Billion Investment in Michigan Plants description: President Trump tweeted about Ford Motor's expected announcement about jobs at three Michigan plants canonical: https://time.com/4714859/trump-ford-michigan-job-annoucement/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-28T13:19:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-14T22:30:01.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Ford Announces $1.2 Billion Investment in Michigan Plants og:description: Hours after President Trump teased the announcement og:url: https://time.com/4714859/trump-ford-michigan-job-annoucement/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68d4c791ffd90189/6988c027a988cac1876bb7d8/donald-trump-cars.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump Face Off In First Presidential Debate At Hofstra University og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ford Announces $1.2 Billion Investment in Michigan Plants twitter:description: Hours after President Trump teased the announcement twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68d4c791ffd90189/6988c027a988cac1876bb7d8/donald-trump-cars.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ford Announces $1.2 Billion Investment in Michigan Plants by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Updated: Dec 14, 2023 10:30 PM UTCPublished: Mar 28, 2017 1:19 PM UTC  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump waves after the Presidential Debate with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at Hofstra University on September 26, 2016 in Hempstead, New York. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump waves after the Presidential Debate with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at Hofstra University on September 26, 2016 in Hempstead, New York.Drew Angerer—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Updated: Dec 14, 2023 10:30 PM UTCPublished: Mar 28, 2017 1:19 PM UTC Ford Motor will invest $1.2 billion in three Michigan plants, the automaker announced, hours after President Trump touted a “big announcement” from the company on Tuesday. Trump said Ford would make a “major investment” in three Michigan plants in a tweet. “Big announcement by Ford today,” Trump [tweeted](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/846672219073863681) early Tuesday morning. “Major investment to be made in three Michigan plants. Car companies coming back to U.S. JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!” Ford said it will put the money toward upgrading three Michigan facilities and create 130 jobs. The investments are part of a 2015 contract with United Auto Workers. Trump has previously touted job announcements that were already in the works before he was sworn in as president. Reuters [reported](http://fortune.com/2017/03/28/trump-ford-investment-michigan-announcement/) that last week, Trump promoted an investment decision by Charter Communications that had been announced before he was elected. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4714859/trump-ford-michigan-job-annoucement/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4714859/trump-ford-michigan-job-annoucement/"},"headline":"Ford Announces $1.2 Billion Investment in Michigan Plants","datePublished":"2017-03-28T13:19:07.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-14T22:30:01.000Z","description":"Hours after President Trump teased the announcement","url":"https://time.com/4714859/trump-ford-michigan-job-annoucement/","keywords":["White House","Autos","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68d4c791ffd90189/6988c027a988cac1876bb7d8/donald-trump-cars.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68d4c791ffd90189/6988c027a988cac1876bb7d8/donald-trump-cars.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump Face Off In First Presidential Debate At Hofstra University","caption":"Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump Face Off In First Presidential Debate At Hofstra University","creditText":"Drew Angerer—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4714859/trump-ford-michigan-job-annoucement/","name":"Ford Announces $1.2 Billion Investment in Michigan Plants"}}]}] ```