Trump Needs Guidance on His Muddled Attempts at Job Creation

President Trump traveled to Michigan last week and promised to recreate the industrial America that existed when Willow Run was “the arsenal of democracy” and Rosie the Riveter was a celebrated symbol of its work force. He would do this, he said, by lifting burdensome regulations and ending unfair foreign competition. By the time he was through, he promised, the 900 jobs that General Motors announced on Wednesday that it would retain or add in Michigan would look like “peanuts.”