Did Foxconn’s Trump-Backed Move to Wisconsin Create Jobs or Catfish the Public? | The Daily Show

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  • Since the last election, Trump has been a big proponent of the Taiwan-based electronic manufacturer Foxconn's opening of a massive factory in Wisconsin, promising thousands of new jobs. But millions of taxpayer dollars and zero manufactured goods later, it seems like the people of Wisconsin have been Fox-conned. Ronny Chieng investigates. #DailyShow #RonnyChieng #Wisconsin
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  • @jlsudberry5862
    @jlsudberry5862 Před 19 dny +2574

    Don't worry folks, the republicans who praised this mess will get to whine about democrat spending

    • @andrewright8033
      @andrewright8033 Před 19 dny

      Even though Trump added 4.4 trillion to the debt and Biden only 2.8 trillion. Trump only created 184k jobs a month. Biden 276k a month. It's not even close who's better! We haven't even factored in Trump's propensity to commit felonies! Why is this race even close???

    • @RyanBreaker
      @RyanBreaker Před 19 dny +131

      Remember when they canceled the federally funded High Speed Rail project because they said it was going to be too expensive and we had to return all of the funds and we were sued for canceling contracts after they were started?

    • @joelbuchanan471
      @joelbuchanan471 Před 19 dny +46

      ​@@RyanBreakermore Scotty Walker stupidity.

    • @GodIsADelusion
      @GodIsADelusion Před 19 dny

      Republicans would be nothing if not hypocrites.

    • @lppoqql
      @lppoqql Před 19 dny +1

      Its funny how when the republicans do it. Suddenly this is not a "Chinese Company" anymore lol.

  • @WhispyWoods.
    @WhispyWoods. Před 19 dny +1596

    Do not forget the former governor Scott Walker and the part he played in this disaster. He should take the same amount or more blame than Trump. Scott Walker was the worst thing to ever happen to Wisconsin.

    • @Mike13589
      @Mike13589 Před 19 dny

      Don't forget Vos, Sense Brenner and the rest of the gerrymandered who hijacked the state government from 2010-2020

    • @janeshipley6993
      @janeshipley6993 Před 19 dny +26

      oh, you said it, whispy.

    • @mindikruse6938
      @mindikruse6938 Před 19 dny +116

      💯👏I worked at WI D.O.R. at the time. I brought up several issues about this credit at meetings...then was retaliated against. Thank you for bringing this to everyone's attention. 🙏 Not that the Republicans in Northern Wisconsin will watch this.🙄 Scott Walker is a trash person. 💯👏

    • @artboymoy
      @artboymoy Před 19 dny +64

      @@mindikruse6938 I remember reading that it would cost $33K to create each job that Foxxcon was going to bring and thought, why don't they just give it to people to spend and it would probably do more for the economy than this thing would. Because from the get go, the proposal just looked bad to me.

    • @mindikruse6938
      @mindikruse6938 Před 19 dny +29

      @@artboymoy this was brought up in meetings. Lol.

  • @catherinewilliams9680
    @catherinewilliams9680 Před 19 dny +34

    this story needs to be told and retold every day between now and Election day in Wisconsin.

    • @thesparklingdiamond
      @thesparklingdiamond Před 12 dny +3

      I wish it helped. The outside Milwaukee snd Madison areas love Trump.

  • @lolalalia4119
    @lolalalia4119 Před 15 dny +50

    Shout out to all the peeps from Wisconsin still voting for Trump! YOU guys are what keep America hilariously dystopian

    • @thesparklingdiamond
      @thesparklingdiamond Před 12 dny +5

      As a Wisconsinite, it is frustrating.

    • @swampygaming2975
      @swampygaming2975 Před 11 dny +7

      They promised us 13,000 jobs and we got 13.

    • @lolalalia4119
      @lolalalia4119 Před 11 dny +4

      @@thesparklingdiamond I can relate. I'm from Texas 🤪 but the average Republican Texas voter, like your typical nice neighbor, is progressive in practice but conservative in identity. You should see how mad they get when I point how progressive they are! It's hilarious 😂

    • @TheGenericDavis
      @TheGenericDavis Před dnem

      Hey, we bungled it in 2016, but at least we scraped out a win for Biden in 2020.

  • @ronalddelrosario7405
    @ronalddelrosario7405 Před 19 dny +1491

    Weird. A giant multinational corporation promising to do amazing things for the benefit of local citizens, taking resources from them, then reneging on those promises? It's almost like you can't trust their word.

    • @Djturnt
      @Djturnt Před 19 dny +51

      What about the promoter in chief

    • @freda2758
      @freda2758 Před 19 dny

      It's almost like it was a scam to win their votes in the upcoming presidential election. And it almost worked.

    • @freda2758
      @freda2758 Před 19 dny +61

      You would think people would wise up to Trump's scams, but they keep falling for them.

    • @ICU1337
      @ICU1337 Před 19 dny +17

      Sounds like a colonizer to be frank.

    • @Reddsoldier
      @Reddsoldier Před 19 dny

      ​@@freda2758The saying is fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me... Surely at fool me for the 300th time point the saying is "please remove the ability to make decisions away from me".

  • @jerrydeanswanson79
    @jerrydeanswanson79 Před 19 dny +1439

    Wait a second. I am a proud life-long Wisconsinite. Am disappointed Scott Walker's name never surfaced. He, and his cronies, deserve some of the shame here!

    • @brianwade879
      @brianwade879 Před 19 dny +82

      That's what I thought was missing. I knew there was something missing. The Governor's part in this ! There was a lot of skulduggery going on in Wisconsin politics during trumpf's years on the political scene.

    • @LeftyPem
      @LeftyPem Před 19 dny +88

      Big time. Walker destroyed so much here during his tenure. Don’t get me started on collective bargaining for teachers.😠

    • @DacBietViet-cl7gy
      @DacBietViet-cl7gy Před 19 dny +33

      Statefarm moved their HQ to TX during the Walker years

    • @Bruce-sb1so
      @Bruce-sb1so Před 19 dny +28

      @@LeftyPem Or any State employee ... Act 10.

    • @Adonnus100
      @Adonnus100 Před 19 dny +19

      I remember in 2016 when it was rumoured he would run and even win the nomination. Lol

  • @ttomgast1769
    @ttomgast1769 Před 19 dny +88

    I'd like to thank Ronnie Chieng for visiting Wisconsin . I was wondering why my state felt funnier the other day , now i know why . Thanks !!

  • @racheltewinkel8003
    @racheltewinkel8003 Před 19 dny +74

    When I was finishing my doctorate, Foxconn was at my university and trying to recruit people. They were very excited about hiring someone with my background and when I asked what kind of jobs they had neither recruiter could answer. They just wanted me to fill out an application online and interview... for a job that seemingly didn't exist. We knew this was a scam from day one.

    • @rezonancedesign6319
      @rezonancedesign6319 Před 14 dny +7

      I heard they just hired people at the end of the year and fired them when they got the tax refunds. The people did nothing there, got paid to sit in an emlty office for a few months

  • @Collin_J
    @Collin_J Před 19 dny +914

    Wisconsin residents knew this was a grift from the get-go. Foxconn was walking back promises at every opportunity. The promises also made no sense. The first woman interviewed summarizes the weird downward progression.

    • @cooperhough7583
      @cooperhough7583 Před 19 dny +68

      Con is literally in their brand name

    • @jaegybomb
      @jaegybomb Před 19 dny +24

      It provided the push to get rid of the republican governor though so not all bad.

    • @ronrolfsen3977
      @ronrolfsen3977 Před 19 dny +19

      @@cooperhough7583 And use an animal we consider "sly" in there name.

    • @user-yc6pt6wu7o
      @user-yc6pt6wu7o Před 19 dny +30

      Unfortunately, outside the cities, that's not the case. The bootlicking in the rural areas is still pretty rampant. Full blinders on too.

    • @avradio0b
      @avradio0b Před 19 dny +19

      @@jaegybomb Unfortunately, it always takes longer to fix mistakes than it takes to cause them. We can only hope that voters' memory is long enough to keep all of Walker's mistakes in mind over the next few elections

  • @brianheckman.235
    @brianheckman.235 Před 19 dny +400

    ''Made a promise. Never delivered. Left everyone holding the bag." that's the art of the deal

    •  Před 17 dny +21

      Art of the _steal_

    • @recall8780
      @recall8780 Před 16 dny

      Taiwan, a fake China but also real

    • @yvl3176
      @yvl3176 Před 15 dny +2

      If you delivered, there will be more expectations to feed. Hope is just easy, just talk and shows.

    • @Falcon2609
      @Falcon2609 Před 14 dny +2

      🤣

    • @ericspahn1857
      @ericspahn1857 Před 13 dny +2

      Typical trump

  • @user-dk4ph5wj5b
    @user-dk4ph5wj5b Před 19 dny +79

    I hope when Drumph shows up to the GOP convention in Milwaukee, there are thousands tgere to greet him wearing t-shirts that say, "my house got bulldozed for Foxxconn, and all i got was this lousy t-shirt, " or " I was promised a job at Foxxconn, and all i got was this lousy t shirt." Thanks to gold shovel man.

    • @TheAureliac
      @TheAureliac Před 17 dny +10

      "and I still had to buy my own lousy t-shirt".

    • @text97
      @text97 Před 15 dny

      At least he tried, which is more than Obama or Biden can say!!!

    • @Falcon2609
      @Falcon2609 Před 14 dny

      ​@@text97You love Obama don't you, clown?

    • @charles5a
      @charles5a Před 13 dny +9

      ​@@text97 That's not trying. That's an irresponsible use of taxpayers' money only for a photo Op.

    • @frankie9953
      @frankie9953 Před 9 dny +1

      @@text97 lol, that's what you call trying??🤣

  • @datboisteve6992
    @datboisteve6992 Před 19 dny +93

    F Trump, F Foxcon, get both outta my home state!! 😤

  • @DeePark1410
    @DeePark1410 Před 19 dny +512

    Show this in EVERY STATE!

    • @gabrieladkinsGS
      @gabrieladkinsGS Před 19 dny +1

      I think they went worldwide. Let me hear the other side. Reality is somewhere in the middle as usual. I think Trump is leading in Wisconsin so I would love to hear the other side...

    • @DacBietViet-cl7gy
      @DacBietViet-cl7gy Před 19 dny

      Orange Criminal is a loser

    • @AnnaCinti
      @AnnaCinti Před 19 dny +20

      @@gabrieladkinsGS Obtuse or learning disability? Anyone, anyone?

    • @Cygnus888
      @Cygnus888 Před 19 dny +32

      @@gabrieladkinsGS You heard the other side. They built 2 buildings and a sphere.

    • @SuzukiKid400
      @SuzukiKid400 Před 19 dny +2

      @@gabrieladkinsGSgood question: were there environmental issues or other supply chain issues setting up this facility? There has to be a reason why they just dropped everything and ran.

  • @krishamilton489
    @krishamilton489 Před 19 dny +478

    My question is why am I seeing and hearing this on the daily show and not CNN and all the other big networks

    • @jaegybomb
      @jaegybomb Před 19 dny +50

      It's been a slow drip of broken promises for the last 7 years.

    • @jamesreid8638
      @jamesreid8638 Před 19 dny

      CNN ownership is a major source of campaign funding for Trump, as is almost all large corporate media. The well has been poisoned.

    • @brianwade879
      @brianwade879 Před 19 dny +40

      I heard about this before. It was covered on my local news channels CBS, NBC, ABC, WGN, and WTTW, Public television.

    • @lloydchristmas6811
      @lloydchristmas6811 Před 19 dny +54

      Because that would require actual journalism and effort.

    • @brianwade879
      @brianwade879 Před 19 dny +5

      In a neighboring State.

  • @douglasboyle6544
    @douglasboyle6544 Před 13 dny +3

    When will municipalities figure out that they're never equal partners in these schemes and that the corporations are lying to them?

  • @nickwallette6201
    @nickwallette6201 Před 19 dny +52

    I refuse to believe that the former prez ginned up some big PR campaign, made promises, and then walked away leaving the whole thing to crumble in on the suckers that got involved.
    I'm SHOCKED. _SHOCKED,_ I tell you. Nobody could have ever seen that coming from a mile away...

    • @garryrc
      @garryrc Před 17 dny +1

      The sticking point was that Trump wanted to rebrand it to Trumptronics.

  • @thomasm8077
    @thomasm8077 Před 19 dny +319

    I have driven by the Foxconn site and it's a ghost town. What a shame.

    • @boggy7665
      @boggy7665 Před 19 dny +13

      For me, it's the nicest highway route for getting from I-94 to Wis-31 and points east. Four square miles of homes and farms obliterated, very wide highways with no traffic that will now need to be maintained or torn up, water and electric power infrastructure the area ratepayers are saddled with... a disaster.

    • @palmtreeshenanigans
      @palmtreeshenanigans Před 19 dny

      @@boggy7665 I did watch a clip of Biden announcing a real contract for an American built and owned chip factory to be built on the land, and he did state very clearly this is not a drump scam but a real project. Convenient how the media does not report on things like this, so even residents don't now.

    • @crIms0ngen
      @crIms0ngen Před 19 dny +1

      @@boggy7665 With the Microsoft datacenter in process, at least some of the infra will be utilized, and from what I've noticed, where one DC goes in, you will get more from other providers, so the originally number of promised jobs may happen down the line.

    • @smoothrocky1847
      @smoothrocky1847 Před 19 dny +5

      So it could now be a foreign black op site or a future supermax…

    • @glennzanotti3346
      @glennzanotti3346 Před 19 dny +10

      The Democratic Party needs to get this story out, in a big way. Show people how Trump did NOT bring manufacturing back to the US, and how Biden has.

  • @entropyachieved750
    @entropyachieved750 Před 19 dny +1251

    Anything trump has to do with is a grift.

    • @ges6959
      @ges6959 Před 19 dny +30

      Not only that, but Foxconn is a Chinese company.

    • @NathanCroucher
      @NathanCroucher Před 19 dny +15

      @@ges6959 Headquarters: Tucheng District, Taipei, Taiwan

    • @entropyachieved750
      @entropyachieved750 Před 19 dny

      @@ges6959 clearly Trump was getting tough on China... Whilst his daughter is gifted trademarks from China...

    • @theamerican7080
      @theamerican7080 Před 19 dny

      But he's not in charge...your beloved Biden is.

    • @gabrieladkinsGS
      @gabrieladkinsGS Před 19 dny +3

      @@entropyachieved750 What did you spend your stimulus checks on?

  • @GTaichou
    @GTaichou Před 19 dny +27

    The fact that we lost a high speed rail project to this mess still makes me so angry.

    • @playerpage
      @playerpage Před 15 dny +1

      High speed rail would never have happened either. Just ask California.

    • @MrRight0930
      @MrRight0930 Před 15 dny

      You don't need a "high speed rail“, learn the lesson from China, high speed rails are money sinks.

    • @jd5997
      @jd5997 Před 15 dny

      @@playerpageit would have as it was almost 100% on existing right of ways. Also, Wisconsin doesn’t have earthquakes to worry about.

    • @gargargargar
      @gargargargar Před 14 dny

      @@playerpageAsk California? Like, one of the only states that’s actually building one?

    • @playerpage
      @playerpage Před 10 dny

      @@jd5997 Existing right-of-ways, but not existing track. High Speed Rail needs very slow curves, and California hasn't built any of it yet. $9 Billion budget ballooned to $200 Billion with no end in sight.

  • @charliewise365
    @charliewise365 Před 19 dny +9

    Total scam! I was on the crew in Pleasant Prairie for the supposed ground breaking. He couldn't get in and out of there fast enough. No expansion, no new jobs.

  • @maxbaldwin2960
    @maxbaldwin2960 Před 19 dny +256

    A small town taking out a billion dollar loan for a multibillion dollar corporation is wild. Unfortunately this is a common practice in America. Happens all the time with sports stadiums

    • @internetpointsbank
      @internetpointsbank Před 19 dny +10

      Exactly. Seems local gov was the one agreeing to this obvious scam.

    • @tommcfadden5232
      @tommcfadden5232 Před 19 dny +8

      It speaks to the limited intelligence of local politicians. Their prey for the big boys and girls.

    • @smittyjjensin558
      @smittyjjensin558 Před 19 dny

      ​@@internetpointsbankthese local officials probably took those Supreme Court ordained "gifts" from Foxconn in exchange for the free land

    • @guardianoffire8814
      @guardianoffire8814 Před 19 dny +5

      @@internetpointsbank Lots of politicians oppose spending taxpayer money on arenas, but the public are easily manipulated by advertisements by billionaire owners of teams that create pressure for politicians to give in or get replaced.

    • @XSpamDragonX
      @XSpamDragonX Před 19 dny +5

      ​@@guardianoffire8814 1. Welcome to Democracy, people like sports.
      2. The argument is that local governments "invest" in sports infrastructure in order to boost tourism and generate tax revenue.
      I wish the billionaire team owner in my town paid for everything, but I'm at least gonna analyse the situation with nuance.

  • @marylyn3081
    @marylyn3081 Před 19 dny +183

    Excellent, there's no other way to tell this ridiculous story!

    • @cmst6408
      @cmst6408 Před 19 dny +6

      Indeed Ronny and Daily Show -big props. This should be shown to every American and community before any company is "investing" & asking for their investment😅😢

  • @joshuagodinez5867
    @joshuagodinez5867 Před 19 dny +18

    This is the kind of piece that is needed in real journalism. I love the comedic delivery, but the message is real. Anyone claiming the last administration created jobs or did something great for the economy needs to explain this project and either, what they are doing to correct it or what they learned from it.

  • @luise.perezv.8702
    @luise.perezv.8702 Před 19 dny +17

    From what I understand, giant data centers are one of the worst things that can happen to a town/city because of all of the electricity they consume to maintain the servers. They may consume even more electricity than the whole town combined

  • @rodsmith7032
    @rodsmith7032 Před 19 dny +355

    The clue was in the name , Fox - Con

    • @lionrock2023
      @lionrock2023 Před 19 dny +21

      that's not a clue.. that's a mission statement.

    • @bogata903
      @bogata903 Před 19 dny +5

      Lol... I really liked that one...😂

    • @jogbon
      @jogbon Před 19 dny +4

      hide in plain sight as they say

    • @polygraphliedetector
      @polygraphliedetector Před 19 dny +3

      and CONservative

    • @mikeolsze6776
      @mikeolsze6776 Před 19 dny +1

      They was CONserving the dollars flowing into their pockets ! 😂

  • @warrenmohar7197
    @warrenmohar7197 Před 19 dny +231

    One thing that isn't addressed is the 10s of millions of dollars that the State of Wisconsin spent on the road infrastructure, including upgrades to the I94 interstate to handle all the traffic. This move by Scott Walker diverted highway funding from communities in the rest of the state, leaving bridges and roads in disrepair.

    • @phiksit
      @phiksit Před 19 dny +39

      Yep, the republican legislature hyped this up and rammed it through. No accountability. I told my local (R) legislator to vote no on this. He sent me a letter about how great it was going to be and he eventually got promoted to majority leader in the party... Devin LeMahieu... and Gov. Walker eventually got placed at YAF as ceo making a million dollars with salary and perks.
      More examples of republican "meritocracy" and accountability 🙄

    • @zachlafond2652
      @zachlafond2652 Před 19 dny +14

      I live in Wisconsin. The roads here are beyond horrible. You'll need a jeep to get anywhere in a few years at the rate the roads are falling apart.

    • @Bloodcurling
      @Bloodcurling Před 18 dny

      Thought that was part of the whole highway modernization

    • @tomsvircev1716
      @tomsvircev1716 Před 18 dny

      @@zachlafond2652 except the Jeeps are falling apart too...

    • @anthonygutierrez8933
      @anthonygutierrez8933 Před 18 dny

      The highways look amazing, but man these residential streets are a mess. I work and used to live in Kenosha WI.

  • @eduardoavila2252
    @eduardoavila2252 Před 17 dny +6

    As a Wisconsinite, i’m glad you guys did this video. Everything about this is true!!!

  • @TheGordeaux
    @TheGordeaux Před 18 dny +7

    Ronny is brilliant. The Daily Show is on fire right now with Desi, Costa and Ronny especially

  • @mabutoo
    @mabutoo Před 19 dny +416

    So they took people's land and got nothing for it. Those people should get their land back.

    • @latoyariggs3292
      @latoyariggs3292 Před 19 dny +40

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 the irony

    • @LOAF-do2xm
      @LOAF-do2xm Před 19 dny +63

      Hmmm this sounds strangely familiar🧐

    • @paulinelarson465
      @paulinelarson465 Před 19 dny

      Their homes can not be replaced! Their neighborhood can not be replaced ! Their former lives can not be restored ! Their accumulated wealth has been obliterated ! !

    • @CCR971
      @CCR971 Před 19 dny +45

      They should get their land, their homes rebuilt and millions in compensation! This was a SCAM from the jump. I'd love to know how much Trump and Scott Walker personally profited from this deal!

    • @kloss213
      @kloss213 Před 19 dny +22

      @@CCR971 Its was used to campaign on that is why it happened. Building old tech LCD TV when Led TV were most of the market to me was a red flag and I knew something was up as Walker and Trump said how great for WI this was.

  • @vedadalsette1453
    @vedadalsette1453 Před 19 dny +319

    Thank you, The Daily Show, for doing the news our MSM fails to do.

    • @alinaitzal1173
      @alinaitzal1173 Před 19 dny

      MSM, Sinclair and Sky news ALL profit from chaos. NONE of them profit from a well informed public. But tell me in a capitalist society, why they should care? Caring doesn't earn as much money as not caring. FACTS are sad.

    • @SS-rf1ri
      @SS-rf1ri Před 19 dny +6

      Daily show is mainstream, unfortunately it's some of the only factual mainstream left.

    • @manongagnon9704
      @manongagnon9704 Před 19 dny +1

      Apparentely, almost all mainstream medias CEO’s are Trumpers maga campaign donors.... so that's probably collusion at its best. 😡

    • @clifford629
      @clifford629 Před 19 dny +1

      MSM in WI covered this at the time and throughout the downward spiral.

    • @popcorn8153
      @popcorn8153 Před 17 dny

      @@clifford629 I was gonna say this - local news was always running stories on this dumpster fire from start to now.

  • @xiong994
    @xiong994 Před 19 dny +22

    I remember this. Lived in Madison when it happened. Ended up taxpayers of WI fronting this😡

  • @joshmaclean8206
    @joshmaclean8206 Před 19 dny +6

    I hope more people will talk about this. Great job reporting. Sad for all those who lost their houses.

  • @YouDaMANRAJ
    @YouDaMANRAJ Před 19 dny +175

    That chapter 11 comeback was so quick witted

  • @carolmorris2705
    @carolmorris2705 Před 19 dny +222

    Eminent domain took away people’s homes. That’s a very sad reality.

    • @kasondaleigh
      @kasondaleigh Před 19 dny +12

      That is what I thought.
      Those were people’s homes and histories. Sad.

    • @lostbutfreesoul
      @lostbutfreesoul Před 19 dny +3

      Yeah, but how much do you think Foxconn made when it sold Microsoft 315 acres?

    • @backupplan6058
      @backupplan6058 Před 19 dny +7

      @RTPMinx paid for by the public as infrastructure spending. Why build new schools and libraries when you can build stadiums with fish tanks to make the rich richer.

    • @elainehewitt6813
      @elainehewitt6813 Před 19 dny +1

      Do I feel a class action suit coming on? I hope so.

    • @MonkeyJedi99
      @MonkeyJedi99 Před 19 dny +8

      Eminent Domain being used to give land to corporations is not what that doctrine was written for.
      It was written for roads and civil improvements, later railroads and highways.

  • @rcvillapando
    @rcvillapando Před 19 dny +8

    FOX-CONN. Weirdly coincidental name! 🤣

  • @naturalphenomenon1402
    @naturalphenomenon1402 Před 19 dny +35

    "I'm a businessman - brilliant businessman. that's what we need to make America great and I'm the one. I will do for America what Foxcon did for Wisconson."

  • @BeardOfRiker
    @BeardOfRiker Před 19 dny +67

    I hope this comes up at the Republican Convention in Wisconsin next week.

    • @Tlab0624
      @Tlab0624 Před 19 dny +12

      I don't even know why they would choose Wisconsin, after pulling that stunt. I hope it gets talked about and elevated all week.

    • @BeardOfRiker
      @BeardOfRiker Před 19 dny +4

      @@Tlab0624 Wisconsin is a key swing state, so it makes sense from that perspective.

    • @dannyarcher6370
      @dannyarcher6370 Před 19 dny

      Trump is up 2.2 on Biden in Wisconsin in the Real Clear Polling average. 🤡

    • @kimberlyevans9160
      @kimberlyevans9160 Před 19 dny +6

      Wouldn't it make a great billboard near the convention centre?

    • @drewbreezy5854
      @drewbreezy5854 Před 19 dny

      It will as a success I am sure

  • @boggy7665
    @boggy7665 Před 19 dny +260

    It wasn't just Trump. It was supposed to guarantee Wis. Gov. Scott Walker's (R) reelection.

    • @looncraz
      @looncraz Před 19 dny +5

      Yeah, but the only one to blame for not following-through is Foxconn and politicians still in office that didn't monitor the development and hold Foxconn accountable.
      Still, everyone involved has some blame to accept - there needed to be teeth to hold Foxconn accountable if they pulled out or under-delivered.

    • @Rainer-qc2ol
      @Rainer-qc2ol Před 19 dny +3

      @@looncraz It's probably more like this
      A: "We agree to give you everything if you do this"
      B: "Okay"
      time goes by
      B: "Where's the money?"
      A: "Crickets"
      time goes by
      B: "K"

    • @Heartwing13
      @Heartwing13 Před 19 dny +3

      @@Rainer-qc2olit was actually probably like:
      “Hey, how’d you like some under the table “gifts” for giving us a bunch of land and a sweet deal?”
      “Isn’t this a bad deal for my constituents and the current landowners?”
      “Yea lol”
      “lol”

    • @TrumpCantRead
      @TrumpCantRead Před 17 dny

      @@looncraz nah, Its on Trump

    • @rashardclarke6347
      @rashardclarke6347 Před 17 dny

      @@looncraz these are the same cult members who will blame biden if its rains to hard lollllllllllollllll

  • @MBAinternetmktg
    @MBAinternetmktg Před 19 dny +6

    People got paid off, that's the only way this grift happens on a large scale with public money.

    • @TrumpCantRead
      @TrumpCantRead Před 17 dny

      @@MBAinternetmktg Nah, suckers believed Trump’s lies.

  • @ep20091
    @ep20091 Před 19 dny +38

    they failed to mention that this is what Foxconn does, they've pulled the same thing over and over and over. How did anybody think this would go differently?

    • @Beauty_In_Simplicity
      @Beauty_In_Simplicity Před 19 dny +2

      My point exactly!

    • @ncwordman
      @ncwordman Před 19 dny

      Maybe they didn't have any choice? DonDon announced this after he was elected, if memory serves. All they knew beforehand was that he'd "somehow" bring back jobs. When he revealed his "wonder of the world," did they have the chance to say, No Thanks?

    • @yanj111
      @yanj111 Před 14 dny

      I have a classmate did some business with Foxconn and interacted with him, that's exactly his experience as well.

  • @barcelonachair6487
    @barcelonachair6487 Před 19 dny +62

    This symbolises the Trump admin.

  • @newinhuman
    @newinhuman Před 19 dny +40

    money laundering on a gov level

  • @ensabahnur3104
    @ensabahnur3104 Před 17 dny +6

    The way that man is still pitching it like it didn't Utterly crash and Burn is delusional, crazy, and scary.

  • @Molson-xg9hs
    @Molson-xg9hs Před 19 dny +12

    I live 15 minutes from the FoxConn site and work just up the road from it…and it’s amazing for the land it covers and the disruption that it caused, how very little actually goes on around there. Trump and Scott Walker got Mt Pleasant to invest in land and improvements that this giant corporation somehow couldn’t take care of themselves and now it just feels like a tax write-off for FoxConn.

    • @MPMcDonald
      @MPMcDonald Před 16 dny +1

      Howdy neighbor. Beautiful new roads that have hardly any traffic. Not that I'm complaining about that. However, now they've closed another road for who knows how long while they build the Microsoft facility so I have to takn another detour to work again.

  • @ChubbyBlumpkinz
    @ChubbyBlumpkinz Před 19 dny +211

    Yet many people in the area still support Trump. It’s very wild

    • @phiksit
      @phiksit Před 19 dny +8

      Sure, he does rallies in that general area of the state a bunch of times now.

    • @user-yy4jo9pk2b
      @user-yy4jo9pk2b Před 19 dny +34

      @@phiksitThose kind of people are cultists who could care less about their neighbors.

    • @grumpydave7329
      @grumpydave7329 Před 19 dny

      BECAUSE HE'S RACIST LOL.

    • @lpr8858
      @lpr8858 Před 19 dny +7

      There are just as many who don't!

    • @drewbreezy5854
      @drewbreezy5854 Před 19 dny

      She said it best "morons."

  • @przytulanka1979
    @przytulanka1979 Před 19 dny +129

    It's called Foxconn. What did they expect?

    • @williamcat3159
      @williamcat3159 Před 19 dny +3

      Foxes??

    • @Mondfischli
      @Mondfischli Před 19 dny +2

      ​@@williamcat3159...fleas 😁

    • @kasondaleigh
      @kasondaleigh Před 19 dny +1

      😂😂😂

    • @CCR971
      @CCR971 Před 19 dny

      Exactly! CON is right in the name. Village Idiots is the understate of the century.

  • @johannesbruv1099
    @johannesbruv1099 Před 19 dny +5

    I remember when I was younger foxconn was the biggest thing to my republican mom. Now she deflects anything when its mentioned.

  • @InternetzVideoz
    @InternetzVideoz Před 19 dny +5

    You nailed this one.
    Right amount of hope, political promises, corporate greed, racism, and local incompetence.

  • @845835
    @845835 Před 19 dny +143

    Ronny Chieng is one of the greatest TDS correspondents ever.

    • @davidgray8089
      @davidgray8089 Před 19 dny

      We get it... you don't like facts or anything that exposes your king for the dumpster fire that he is, son.

    • @eattherich9215
      @eattherich9215 Před 19 dny

      I guess you must be one of TrumpsDelusionalSheep. Foxconn is a real life disaster that delivered none of the promises made.

    • @philster6383
      @philster6383 Před 19 dny +5

      He is hilarious!!!

    • @dannyarcher6370
      @dannyarcher6370 Před 19 dny +1

      Indeed, the Trump Derangement Syndrome is strong in him.

    • @Carnivius_Prime
      @Carnivius_Prime Před 19 dny +5

      @@dannyarcher6370 Where's the 13,000 jobs, Danny?

  • @AeOdin
    @AeOdin Před 19 dny +82

    ...the whole of the nation is being grifted by the one percent...

    • @drengr2759
      @drengr2759 Před 19 dny

      And we are all supposed to laugh and smile about it all.

    • @ncwordman
      @ncwordman Před 19 dny +5

      "Trump grifts the nation."
      ---There. I fixed it for you: got rid of the passive voice, the pointless ellipses, and focused on what the video is about.

    • @Jacob-fh8qy
      @Jacob-fh8qy Před 19 dny +1

      "Ninety-nine percent of all grifting is done by the top one percent of all buisenessmen." --- Bernie Sanders, probably

  • @goodfortunetoyou
    @goodfortunetoyou Před 19 dny +5

    Why not have the large corporations place the money into escrow and have it pay out to the local community if the promised outcomes don't materialize?

    • @dahn57
      @dahn57 Před 18 dny +2

      Because the corporations would refuse to do that, and the community leaders wouldn't get kickbacks

  • @user-uo9fr5ll7t
    @user-uo9fr5ll7t Před 19 dny +5

    I live in Wisconsin and can confirm everything is real. Including that weird ball!

  • @iRDaBrit
    @iRDaBrit Před 19 dny +28

    We knew it was a grift and a con from the beginning.

  • @flea7510
    @flea7510 Před 19 dny +25

    It's really sad what he sold folks, then bailed. Well, that's what happens when you trust in a grifter. Move on from the con...

  • @bryanlipscomb8918
    @bryanlipscomb8918 Před 19 dny +3

    Disappointed that they didn’t mention that it was Joe Biden who made that work with Microsoft going to that city.

  • @TurnRiver
    @TurnRiver Před 19 dny +2

    Trump promised it, but Biden actually delivered on it. Why Biden doesn't talk much about the CHIPS act that he signed in is a mystery to me. He would win over the entire Midwest with that one.

  • @TheEvolver311
    @TheEvolver311 Před 19 dny +108

    Ronny killing it

    • @michaellockhart6632
      @michaellockhart6632 Před 19 dny +3

      Ronny Cheing has a done a lot of great work and this one had me rolling. Might as well be entertaining while pointing out the fact once again, everything is a lie from trump, everything.

  • @Kodakcompactdisc
    @Kodakcompactdisc Před 19 dny +196

    Never trust or believe donald.

  • @MrDerekMagnuson
    @MrDerekMagnuson Před 19 dny +11

    Building a tech factory on farmland...wasn't that one of the plot points from Interstellar? "We didn't run out of flatscreen televisions, we ran out of food."

    • @z32plus2
      @z32plus2 Před 16 dny

      Where are they finding enough sucker, cough cough, American workers to do the same low paying jobs as the Chinese worker does? The local farmer ain't gona do factory job, the cows on the farm ain't gona do that, City folks aren't moving to farm land work at these no future job

  • @choreboy988
    @choreboy988 Před 17 dny +3

    WHY DIDN’T THIS COME OUT BEFORE MY UNION SPEECH ABOUT WHO WE SHOULD COLLECTIVELY VOTE FOR!? I WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BEST SPEAKER. NOW IM THE SECOND BEST, BEHIND THE GUY WHO SOMEHOW THINKS JFK IS STILL ALIVE!!!

  • @matbroomfield
    @matbroomfield Před 19 dny +169

    The amount of effort Trump supporters must put into ignoring his awful behaviour must be exhausting.

    • @brianwade879
      @brianwade879 Před 19 dny +24

      This is exactly how trumpf treated the working man and working families as a whole. Not just in Wisconsin !

    • @Manolara1
      @Manolara1 Před 19 dny +14

      Then they have no energy to fact check or take a moment to realise anything.

    • @matbroomfield
      @matbroomfield Před 19 dny

      @@brianwade879 Of course, but since local news is all owned by Trump extremist Sinclair News, they never hear the truth.

    • @user-yc6pt6wu7o
      @user-yc6pt6wu7o Před 19 dny +12

      It's not. Just deny deny deny.

    • @internetpointsbank
      @internetpointsbank Před 19 dny +6

      Wasent this a Scott Walkers deal?

  • @jjbeerj
    @jjbeerj Před 19 dny +78

    Shout out to our Governor at the time, Scott Walker! He was also a big part of this "deal".

    • @SuSpicious9748
      @SuSpicious9748 Před 19 dny +8

      Hence why he was voted out in the following election! We were not happy with this guy.

    • @stereophonicsmom
      @stereophonicsmom Před 19 dny +3

      And Ron Johnson

  • @whylekat
    @whylekat Před 19 dny +4

    CORPORATE GREED RUINS EVERYTHING

  • @MrBBub
    @MrBBub Před 19 dny +6

    Even if the Foxconn did happen, it was going to be a quarter-century before Wisconsin broke even on the deal.

  • @KLondike5
    @KLondike5 Před 19 dny +91

    Governor Walker was Trump lite. Amazing how much money they wasted on this ridiculous project that had no chance of succeeding even in the best of mathematical scenarios.

    • @clifford629
      @clifford629 Před 19 dny +1

      and the terrible clawbacks for promises not kept.

  • @EmperorNefarious1
    @EmperorNefarious1 Před 19 dny +28

    Pretty normal cooperate behavior. Con a town into big development spending or tax breaks. Build less than promised/bare minimum then leave asap or as soon as the contract ends.
    Don't let this happen to you! pay attention to your local leaders and yell at them when they go for that cooperate cheese.

    • @TheAureliac
      @TheAureliac Před 17 dny +1

      In a county just north of Cartersville, GA, the board decimated existing standards to allow smokestacks and massive 24-7 trucking on a two-lane road despite well-organized and vehement opposition from the community. At one meeting we were asked "to call them chimneys because it sounds cozier" by one of the company reps. The commissioners involved, despite family ties there going back for several generations, simply moved on to more expensive pastures with some newly acquired wealth. And that's just what they publicly admitted to.

  • @unknpoet74
    @unknpoet74 Před 19 dny +6

    So basically through eminent domain a lot of people lost their houses and property for nothing

  • @douglasarcher9544
    @douglasarcher9544 Před 15 dny +2

    In Wisconsin, just advertise with an inexpensive 5 second ad, played every hour everywhere.
    "Wisconsin, Remember FoxConn." Put it on Billboards, lawnsigns. Nothing more need be said.

  • @BarabooTycoon
    @BarabooTycoon Před 19 dny +55

    Someone should ask former governor Scott Walker how much he got out of the deal.

    • @phiksit
      @phiksit Před 19 dny +7

      Well ultimately he got placed as ceo of YAF, a conservative youth grooming org with a million dollars in salary and perks.

    • @carolion48
      @carolion48 Před 19 dny +2

      Under subpoena

  • @tloof2370
    @tloof2370 Před 19 dny +45

    Great video. I hope you make more like this one. America needs to know how they have been lied to over and over and over again.

    • @brianwade879
      @brianwade879 Před 19 dny

      This truth, should be told, as often as trumpf lied, and continues to lie !

  • @ShawnDillon-pw8lb
    @ShawnDillon-pw8lb Před 19 dny +3

    …Wisconsin. The new,”what’s the matter with Kansas…”

  • @jewlz715
    @jewlz715 Před 19 dny +3

    Can someone forward a link to this story over to the Biden administration? Would be a great talking point for nationally televised town halls and the presidential debates!

  • @ronagoodwell2709
    @ronagoodwell2709 Před 19 dny +201

    Donald Trump + Foxconn + Wisconsin = Catfish. This may have been one of the biggest clusterf*cks in US history. Go Trump. To everyone who has voted- or will vote -for Donald Trump. You asked for him, you got him, you can keep him.

    • @thomasmcginnis3783
      @thomasmcginnis3783 Před 19 dny +6

      Sadly, not even close. Not even close for The Donald, FFS.

    • @heathernks8
      @heathernks8 Před 19 dny +1

      ​@@thomasmcginnis3783exactly, lol.

    • @davidsalo8397
      @davidsalo8397 Před 19 dny +3

      No one spells this correctly. It's Fox Con.

    • @WE-te3vp
      @WE-te3vp Před 19 dny +2

      No no no I say in the voice of Consuela from family guy

    • @missmiss6516
      @missmiss6516 Před 19 dny

      It's the rest of us who'll suffer. I'm sorry for the most.

  • @longforgotten4823
    @longforgotten4823 Před 19 dny +71

    Let’s not forget former Republican governor Scott Walker’s hand in this debacle.

  • @syte2554
    @syte2554 Před 19 dny +4

    100% grifting our tax dollars

  • @amityislandchum
    @amityislandchum Před 15 dny +1

    I live in SE Wisconsin and have never heard of Foxconn or met anyone who works for it. Clearly they picked the correct name for it.

  • @j0hnn13K
    @j0hnn13K Před 19 dny +53

    What a surprise, must be that "art of the deal" in action right there.
    lol

  • @7SlicesOfPizza
    @7SlicesOfPizza Před 19 dny +10

    Meanwhile president biden struck a deal with samsung to build factory in the US and they are almost done with building to actually create jobs and starting making

  • @WE-te3vp
    @WE-te3vp Před 19 dny +18

    As a person from Wisconsin I can honestly tell you it flew like a lead balloon

  • @michaeld4861
    @michaeld4861 Před 19 dny +2

    Better reporting than all of mainstream media.

  • @davidhamilton5689
    @davidhamilton5689 Před 19 dny +14

    This should be played on the big screens at the republican convention In Milwaukee

  • @brians2351
    @brians2351 Před 19 dny +53

    Ronny is absolutely brilliant in his delivery. Great review of a very sad outcome of a yet another election promise donnycon

  • @apage123
    @apage123 Před 19 dny +3

    Everytime I hear about one of these huge carrot dangle projects I always think about the monorail episode from the Simpsons

  • @genevievemartinez1153
    @genevievemartinez1153 Před 19 dny +51

    Classic Trump: the art of a deal - promise whatever you want knowing that someone else will deal with the consequences because nepobabies are immune to responsibility or logic

  • @octothorpian_nightmare
    @octothorpian_nightmare Před 19 dny +26

    Every time someone shows up on socal media saying they work there, I ask them what they do and they never reply. Just weird sock puppet accounts.

    • @SuSpicious9748
      @SuSpicious9748 Před 19 dny

      Sounds like it's just a chinese bot farm built to spread disinformation and spy on American soil. Seems weird they needed all that land for just one small satellite dome. *insert brand new conspiracy theory here*

    • @TrumpCantRead
      @TrumpCantRead Před 17 dny

      @@octothorpian_nightmare Where is “there”?

    • @octothorpian_nightmare
      @octothorpian_nightmare Před 17 dny

      @@TrumpCantRead Foxconn in Mount Pleasant, ya know, where the interviews were.

  • @LeechyKun
    @LeechyKun Před 19 dny +2

    What was that other one that Trump promised to bring back jobs lost by the company moving manufacturing to Mexico/China or something. They brought it back for a bit but then eventually still offshored it. Think it was Whirlpool or something.

  • @kooale
    @kooale Před 19 dny +1

    Chiengtastic, a real Chiengasm of a piece! How is this not a Lincoln Project or RVAT commercial, airing around the clock, in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pa., Ga. & Az.?

  • @mooniejohnson
    @mooniejohnson Před 19 dny +17

    Living in the state… f’ing catfished. My friend lost his house because of the idiocy surrounding it.

  • @Dr_1212
    @Dr_1212 Před 19 dny +93

    Stop the stupidity
    Trump For Prison 2024

    • @STAWTEREHWYREVE-dx7si
      @STAWTEREHWYREVE-dx7si Před 18 dny +3

      The smartest thing I have heard in decades!!!

    • @Milaaq302
      @Milaaq302 Před 18 dny

      But he's immune from prosecution for official presidential duties. Kind of like how Biden would be immune from imprisoning Trump prior to the election.

  • @rhondaarnesen6684
    @rhondaarnesen6684 Před 18 dny +1

    Absolutely brilliant reporting. Love the humor made in this debacle of an issue.

  • @kathrynw3
    @kathrynw3 Před 19 dny +2

    Wisconsin loves Trump, says Trump. I am sure the people who lost their land to eminent domain would argue with that lie.

  • @cmw3737
    @cmw3737 Před 19 dny +13

    I think this is the first piece of satire that I've seen that points out the stupidity of seeing job creation as the be all and end all of politics.

  • @reddrabbit5056
    @reddrabbit5056 Před 19 dny +19

    Why is it that TDS has to be doing actual journalism for us.

    • @ensabahnur3104
      @ensabahnur3104 Před 17 dny

      Several outlets reported this years ago, there are several CZcams videos about this from news networks, even down Microsoft coming, and Biden talking about how Foxconn was the investment that never was, it was a thing.

  • @scarlettuwu9582
    @scarlettuwu9582 Před 19 dny +1

    Thank you Ronni Chang, absolutely great piece
    I kinda love the comedic style and it’s actually impressive how relaxed and comedic the interview with Foxconn was
    (I don’t think that’s an easy thing to do)

  • @thelifeofriley7668
    @thelifeofriley7668 Před 19 dny +1

    This only happened because the village officials wanted it. These officials said newly built homes were ‘blighted’, which allowed them to take the land and give it to Foxconn. If Mt. Pleasant didn’t want Foxconn, it wouldn’t have gotten off the ground. The trustees mentioned in the video are simple folks without any impressive qualifications. Some run with minimal to no opposition in the village election. On top of that there were just a handful of very young village employees who helped push this through. Trump and Foxconn didn’t push people out of their homes, it was Mt. Pleasant, 100%. Many stories online about it.

  • @Deelove-yt4yc
    @Deelove-yt4yc Před 19 dny +41

    They took these peoples home for no reason

    • @lowmax4431
      @lowmax4431 Před 19 dny +3

      There is so much empty space in Wisconsin lol. Did they really bulldoze homes?

    • @Deelove-yt4yc
      @Deelove-yt4yc Před 19 dny +3

      @@lowmax4431 yes ma'am they did imminent domain

    • @MichaelG485
      @MichaelG485 Před 19 dny +1

      ​​@@lowmax4431Because it was going to be an LCD factory, they needed easy access to Lake Michigan.

    • @lowmax4431
      @lowmax4431 Před 17 dny

      @@Deelove-yt4yc ma'am? 🤔

  • @bernhardhaas8424
    @bernhardhaas8424 Před 19 dny +111

    When trump is involved, a bankruptcy is normal 😊😅
    His concept for business: i win, you lose and the trality is the other way round 😅😂😂🤣

    • @noogie3784
      @noogie3784 Před 19 dny

      Think of all the people who died from Covid? Biden, just run the numbers, if people aren't affected by that, at least you tried.

    • @SS-rf1ri
      @SS-rf1ri Před 19 dny +2

      That's how he ran America too, he won and we lost

  • @emilynelson5985
    @emilynelson5985 Před 19 dny +2

    That ball looks really suspiciously similar to the giant surveillance array at Pine Gap…

  • @gregwatts5178
    @gregwatts5178 Před 12 dny +2

    Wait, the company whose name is literally a combination of 2 synonyms for "trick" didn't keep their promises? I am astounded

  • @morrispartow759
    @morrispartow759 Před 19 dny +12

    Fox ,con, and Don all in the sentence. How appropriate.