WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Trump will make a surprise Thursday visit to a Peterbilt Motors factory in Denton, Texas.
- A White House official credited truck tariffs with more than 1,000 new jobs in Denton and more than 2,000 nationwide.
- A 25% tariff remains on medium and heavy duty trucks and parts that do not comply with the USMCA.
- Manufacturing has lost 35,000 jobs since January 2025, though the industry recorded three consecutive months of job gains.
- White House sources said Trump plans extensive domestic travel before the midterm elections.
President Donald Trump will make a surprise visit to Denton, Texas, on Thursday, putting the administration’s manufacturing and economic agenda in the spotlight.
The stop will take Trump to a Peterbilt Motors factory north of Dallas, as reported by Fox News.
Trump is expected to deliver remarks about what he views as a manufacturing boom driven by his policies.
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The president has credited tariffs, deregulation, and policies designed to promote growth with encouraging investment and bringing production back to the United States.
White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales tied the visit directly to the administration’s trade approach.
“The president’s America First trade agenda is driving a manufacturing renaissance that will continue paying dividends for the great state of Texas and Americans across the country,” Wales said.
She added that the Trump administration’s agenda “has created more than 1 million private-sector jobs, sparked trillions in new investments, lowered taxes and reshored key manufacturing back to the United States.”
A White House official told FOX Business that Paccar, the parent company of Peterbilt, has added jobs and increased American truck production following the implementation of heavy truck tariffs on Nov. 1, 2025.
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A 25% tariff remains in place for medium- and heavy-duty trucks, along with all parts that do not comply with the USMCA.
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain said heavy truck manufacturers had moved jobs out of the United States for decades. In his view, the situation changed when the tariffs took effect on Nov. 1, 2025.
“We have pushed for action like this for decades, and we congratulate President Trump for delivering for heavy truck workers everywhere,” Fain said.
“Let’s keep going and rewrite our broken trade rules.”
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The White House official credited those tariffs with Paccar adding more than 1,000 jobs at its Denton operation.
The company also added more than 2,000 jobs across the United States, according to the official.
Paccar subsidiaries Peterbilt and Kenworth move roughly 30% of the nation’s truck freight.
Paccar is the only remaining American-owned manufacturer producing heavy trucks in high volumes, and the company has built trucks for 121 years.
The Texas appearance gives Trump an opportunity to promote that manufacturing history while making his economic case directly to the public.
He has repeatedly argued that companies are returning production and building plants in the United States.
“They're all coming back. Hundreds of billions of dollars of plants are being built. Eli Lilly is spending billions. Merck, Pfizer, they're all coming back. And we learned that during COVID, we didn't make anything. Now we're making it all. They're all coming back at record numbers,” Trump said Monday in the Oval Office.
Bureau of Labor Statistics data offers a more mixed picture of employment since Trump entered office in January 2025.
The economy has created 807,000 jobs overall during that period, while the manufacturing industry has lost 35,000 jobs.
Trump considers the manufacturing figure deceiving because of the scale of investments announced since he returned to office.
The White House website says countries and companies have pledged $11.2 trillion, which Trump argues will eventually become factories and other projects.
The same Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that the construction sector has added 95,000 jobs since Trump took office.
That figure provides another component of the administration’s argument that announced investment is producing economic activity.
“Steel production declined significantly, and nearly 200,000 manufacturing jobs were lost in the year before I took office,” Trump said.
Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that the economy under former President Joe Biden lost 202,000 manufacturing jobs during the 12 months before Trump took office.
The trend then reversed with three consecutive months of manufacturing job gains.
Trump’s Denton stop also comes as the midterm elections approach. White House sources told FOX Business that the president intends to maintain a busy domestic travel schedule leading up to those elections.
The Peterbilt visit will provide another venue for Trump to sell his economic record straight to Americans.
With trucks, factory workers, tariffs, and new jobs as the backdrop, the president will argue that his trade agenda is delivering tangible results.
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