Trump Touts $6.6 Billion Tennessee Project as He Campaigns for 2 Republicans and Floats 'Trump Ocean'
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Updated · Fox News · Oct 10
Trump Touts $6.6 Billion Tennessee Project as He Campaigns for 2 Republicans and Floats 'Trump Ocean'
2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 10
Summary
$6.6 billion in planned Korea Zinc investment anchored Trump's Tennessee rally, where he campaigned for Sen. Bill Hagerty and gubernatorial candidate Marsha Blackburn ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms.
Trump cast the Clarksville smelter and reopened Gordonsville mine as proof his tariffs are driving U.S. manufacturing, saying the project would create 740 jobs and the first new U.S. mineral smelter since 1979.
12,000 dangerous criminals had been removed in Memphis, Trump said, while the White House claimed murders and overall crime there had fallen about 36% under a federal task force.
Iran also featured prominently: Trump called its leaders "crazy," claimed U.S. operations had sunk 159 ships and destroyed Tehran's air and air-defense capabilities, then joked about renaming a strait and eventually an ocean after himself.
Tennessee, which Trump said backed him in all three presidential races, served as a friendly stop where he urged voters to "pretend that I'm running" even though his name is not on the ballot.