Trump Announcement STUNS As MAGA Cheers Another Historic WIN
Trumponomics: 83,000 Americans Are Building Factories Right Now — a Number We’ve Never Seen Before
The experts spent months predicting collapse. The media spent weeks running stories about tariff uncertainty, supply chain disruption, and consumer confidence cratering. The left spent the entire year insisting President Donald Trump’s economic policies were going to destroy the middle class.
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett appeared on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday and laid down the numbers that make every doomsday prediction look embarrassing: 83,000 construction workers are currently building factories in America — a figure the country has never recorded before. Initial unemployment insurance claims are at the lowest levels since World War II. There are more job openings than there are unemployed workers.
Let that last one sink in. Not enough jobs to go around — too many jobs for the available workers. That’s not a recession. That’s the opposite of everything the Biden-era media told you was coming.
On manufacturing specifically, Hassett made the comparison that every Republican should be repeating from now until November: the typical construction or manufacturing worker in America has seen a $3,000 to $4,000 salary increase under Trump. Under Biden, that same worker saw their salary drop by roughly $3,000 — because manufacturing was collapsing and the high-paying blue-collar jobs were disappearing. “We’ll take our record over his every day,” Hassett said.
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This is the economic story that doesn’t fit the narrative the left has been running all year. They said tariffs would cause inflation. Inflation dropped 0.4% in June — the biggest single-month decline in over six years. They said manufacturing couldn’t come back. The number of manufacturing jobs under Biden dropped by 230,000. Under Trump, factories are being built at a pace the country has never seen. Toyota committed $3.6 billion to Texas. TSMC committed $265 billion to Arizona. 3.5 million new businesses opened in the first half of 2026. And now 83,000 workers are on job sites building the factories that will employ the next generation of American workers.
This is what Adam Smith was writing about in 1776 — the same year America declared its independence. Nations create wealth by making things. Nations that stop making things stop being wealthy nations. The Biden administration watched 230,000 manufacturing jobs disappear and called it the inevitable tide of globalization. The Trump administration is building factories and calling it America First.
The July jobs number had some noise in it — FIFA World Cup workers filing for unemployment after the tournament ended, and teachers in some states taking their summer break. Hassett acknowledged it and stripped out the one-time factors: underlying job creation was right around the 100,000 consensus estimate. The trend remains strong.
Factory construction. Wage growth. Record-low unemployment claims. More jobs than workers. The usual suspect naysayers on the left said it was impossible. The cranes say otherwise.
Trump’s Triumphal Arch Clears Major Federal Hurdle
One of President Donald Trump’s most ambitious projects to reshape the nation’s capital has just cleared a significant obstacle, bringing his vision for a landmark monument another step closer to becoming reality.
While supporters see the proposal as a fitting tribute to America’s 250th birthday, critics argue the project could dramatically alter one of Washington’s most historic landscapes, setting up another high-profile political battle over the future of the nation’s capital.
Trump’s proposal to construct a massive triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery received preliminary approval Thursday from the National Capital Planning Commission, advancing the project toward a final vote expected later this year.
The commission voted 8-1, with three members voting “present,” to approve the preliminary site and building plans for the approximately 250-foot monument planned for Memorial Circle at the Virginia end of the Arlington Memorial Bridge.
Commission staff recommended granting preliminary approval while also suggesting design changes to address concerns involving the federal Height of Buildings Act, which generally limits the height of structures in Washington.
Those recommendations included redistributing height among the arch itself, the planned observation deck and the statues proposed for the top of the monument.
However, commissioners postponed deciding whether the Height of Buildings Act even applies to the project.
Commission Chairman Will Scharf, who also serves as White House Staff Secretary, said the Interior Department had presented what he described as a compelling legal argument that the law is not binding on federal construction projects.
“My view is that, today, we are just considering this project for preliminary approval,” Scharf said as commissioners agreed to revisit the legal question during a future meeting.
A final approval vote is expected as early as September.
Trump first unveiled plans for the monument in April as part of the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration.
At the time, he described it as “the GREATEST and MOST BEAUTIFUL Triumphal Arch, anywhere in the World.”
“This will be a wonderful addition to the Washington D.C. area for all Americans to enjoy for many decades to come!” Trump wrote.
The proposed monument is modeled after the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and would include an observation deck as well as statues atop the structure.
Earlier this year, Trump said he wanted the monument to reflect America’s stature on the world stage.
“I’d like it to be the biggest one of all,” Trump told reporters.
“We’re the biggest, most powerful nation. I’d like it to be the biggest one of all.”
The arch is one of several projects the administration has pursued as part of Trump’s effort to reshape and beautify Washington during his second term.
Supporters argue the monument would serve as a lasting tribute to the nation’s 250th anniversary and create a new destination for visitors to the capital.
“I think commemorating America’s 250th anniversary is important,” Scharf said.
“I think that the proposed arch is a fitting commemoration of 250 years.”
The proposal has also drawn criticism from preservation groups, veterans organizations and some local residents, who argue the structure could alter historic sightlines between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery and have questioned its scale and location.
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Questions also remain about the project’s final cost, funding and whether additional legal challenges will be filed before construction can begin, Breitbart News reported.
For now, however, the preliminary approval represents another significant victory for the Trump administration as it continues pursuing one of the president’s signature projects ahead of America’s 250th birthday celebrations.
