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Trump Delivers Remarks at General Motors' Milford Proving Ground, Jul. 27, 2026

July 27, 2026 · The White House · 1:10:14

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What happened

President Donald Trump addressed General Motors workers and guests at the company’s Milford Proving Ground in Michigan on July 27, 2026 — the first presidential visit to the proving ground, per GM Chair and CEO Mary Barra, who introduced him. Barra said GM employs more people than any other automaker in the United States and “will spend more than $16 billion this year on manufacturing and research and development.”

The President’s remarks ranged from his father’s new Cadillac every two years — “for him, super luxury” — to the industry’s return: businesses that “went to Germany, they went to Mexico and Canada, they went to Japan, they went to South Korea… now they’re coming back home where they belong.” He cited a report released the prior week crediting the administration’s tax law with saving “more than 170,000 Michigan jobs,” and closed with the full pledge litany: “We will make America great again. Thank you, Michigan.”

Why it matters

Milford is where GM tests everything it builds in the U.S., and this visit is the administration’s set-piece statement of its auto policy on the industry’s home ground — with the host company’s own investment figure ($16 billion this year, on Barra’s telling) and the President’s Michigan jobs figure both on the record and dated.

Scoreboard watch

This speech carries scoreboard-watch claims: the $16 billion GM manufacturing and R&D spend for the year and the 170,000 Michigan jobs figure attributed to the tax law. The scoreboard will check them against GM’s reporting and the cited study.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump Delivers Remarks, Jul. 27, 2026” (official upload, embedded above; the upload’s description places the event in Milford, MI). All figures as stated by the President and by GM’s chief executive at the event.