Why Is Trump Doing Free Exxon Commercials??
March 10, 2017
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as posted by the channelWhat does he get out of this? Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"President Trump raised eyebrows after he posted five congratulatory tweets promoting a Monday announcement from the energy giant ExxonMobil, the company from which his secretary of state came to the administration.
The company had said earlier in the day that it was expanding its manufacturing operation along the Gulf Coast and creating more than 45,000 jobs in the region.
Initially, the White House posted a press release reiterating the ExxonMobil news. That press release contained a paragraph that appeared to be copied, almost word-for-word, from the Exxon announcement.
Trump, who wrote on Twitter on Monday that the move from Exxon showed that "we are already winning again," then posted a nearly minute-long video praising the company soon after the administration's release.
That video was pinned to the top of his account for a brief time.
"I'm very pleased to announce that the great company ExxonMobil is going to be investing $20 billion in the Gulf Coast and the Gulf Coast region," the president said. "It'll be 45,000 jobs, and they're great jobs — $100,000 average. And this is something that was done, to a large extent, because of our policies and the policies of this new administration having to do with regulation and so many other things."
"I said we're bringing back jobs, and this is one big example of it," Trump said. "I want to thank very much ExxonMobil. Special company. Special people.””*
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