A steel plant owner looked President Trump dead in the eye during his Georgia visit and delivered two words that destroy every globalist talking point about trade: "tariffs work."
Andrew Saville, owner of Coosa Steel in Rome, Georgia, wasn't giving talking points or political spin. He was telling the raw truth about what Trump's America First policies have done for his 50-year-old company that makes steel racks and plates with American workers producing American products stamped Made in the USA.
The numbers tell the story the mainstream media refuses to report. Under decades of failed globalist trade deals, Chinese subsidized products flooded the market at $90 per piece while American production costs sat at $150. There was no competing with Beijing's government-backed dumping scheme.
Coosa Steel collapsed from two shifts six days a week to one shift, then three days, then one day, then just one hour per week. One hour. That's what NAFTA and Clinton-era deals actually produced for American manufacturing – ghost shifts in empty factories.
Then Trump won in 2024, and everything changed.
From Near-Death to 36-Week Backlog
In October 2025, Saville landed his first massive tire rack order in ten years. The order was so large he thought it was a mistake. It wasn't a mistake – it was tariffs protecting American workers from unfair foreign competition.
Now Coosa Steel runs two shifts a day, six days a week, with a 36-week lead time on orders. They installed a brand new crane just two months ago. When Trump pointed at it and asked how long it had been there, Saville's answer was simple: your policy brought it here, sir.
But this goes far beyond one Georgia steel plant. Trump revealed numbers the corporate media has completely buried: more than 5,000 new manufacturing jobs created in Georgia alone, over 70,000 construction jobs building new factories across the state, and more Americans working today than at any time in our nation's history.
The Democrats voted against every single policy that made this comeback possible. Every one. While they push globalist schemes that ship jobs overseas, President Trump is rebuilding American manufacturing one tariff at a time.
How many more American companies could we save if we had honest reporting about what's really happening in Trump's economy?