Two words. That's all it took for Coosa Steel owner Andrew Saville to sum up what's happening in American manufacturing right now: "Tariffs work."
Standing before President Trump at his Rome, Georgia facility last week, Saville delivered the kind of testimonial that mainstream media outlets refuse to broadcast. His company went from two bustling shifts six days a week to barely one hour of work per week as China flooded the market with subsidized steel racks at $90 a piece – while American production costs sat at $150.
There was no competing. There was no surviving. There was only slow death by globalism.
Then Trump won. And everything changed.
From One Hour to Full Capacity
In October 2025, Coosa Steel landed their first massive tire rack order in ten years. The order was so large that Saville thought it was a mistake. It wasn't a mistake, folks. It was tariffs doing exactly what Trump promised they would do.
"We're so busy now, we don't know what to do," Saville told the President. "My lead time now on an order is 36 weeks. We were at a point in time with our racks division, we were laying off workers. We were working one shift, three days a week, begging for work."
Now? Two shifts a day, six days a week. A brand new crane installed just two months ago. American workers earning American paychecks building American products.
When Trump pointed at that yellow crane and asked how long it had been there, Saville's response said it all: "Tariffs brought it here, sir. Your policy brought it here."
The Numbers the Media Won't Report
But here's what the legacy media absolutely refuses to tell you: this isn't just about one steel plant in Georgia. President Trump revealed staggering numbers that completely destroy the Democrat narrative about his economic policies.
More than 5,000 new manufacturing jobs created in Georgia alone. Over 70,000 construction jobs building new factories across the state. And here's the big one – more Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country. Not since 2001. Not since the Reagan era. Ever.
Peter Navarro called it the best economy since 1998, and the data backs him up. Core CPI inflation has fallen to its lowest level since 2021. Real wages are up nearly $1,400. Prescription drug prices actually declined. Private sector job growth hit 170,000 – that's real jobs for real Americans, not the inflated government hiring numbers the Biden administration used to fake progress.
The American Dream Is Being Rebuilt
Trump also tackled the housing crisis head-on during his Georgia visit. Rent prices have hit four-year lows. New mortgage applications are up 30 percent. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac helped 22,000 first-time homebuyers purchase homes in Georgia alone.
And in a move that sent shockwaves through Wall Street, Trump banned institutional investors like BlackRock from buying single-family homes – ending the corporate land grab that priced countless American families out of homeownership.
"The president wants the United States to be a nation of owners, not renters," Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt declared. "He wants families to live in homes, not institutions and big corporations."
The contrast couldn't be clearer. While Democrats voted against every single one of these pro-worker, pro-family policies, Trump delivered results you can measure in paychecks, production lines, and new homes.
This Is What Winning Looks Like
For decades, politicians from both parties promised to bring back American manufacturing while quietly selling us out to China and the globalist elite. They told us those jobs were never coming back. They told us to learn to code. They told us tariffs would destroy the economy.
They were wrong. Again.
Every new crane, every additional shift, every worker called back to the factory floor proves that America First policies create American prosperity. The question now is simple: will you remember this in November 2026 when the Democrats try to take it all away?