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President Donald Trump is headed to Detroit, Michigan this Tuesday to tour a Ford manufacturing plant and give remarks at the Detroit Economic Club.

The Independent will be live-blogging today’s events and speech.

For eight months in a row last year, manufacturing jobs declined in the United States – with many experts attributing the loss to President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs in April.

December data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated the U.S. lost around 8,000 manufacturing jobs.

Manufacturing jobs had been steadily declining since 2023, but those numbers jumped after Trump imposed tariffs, impacting nearly every sector in the U.S.

Automobile manufacturing was one of the hardest hit sectors due to Trump’s aluminum and steel tariffs in 2025. Car manufacturers had anticipated costs to rise because many of the parts used to assemble cars are imported from Canada and Mexico.

Trump will give remarks at the Detroit Economic Club this afternoon – the third time he will have given remarks to members.

The Detroit Economic Club is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that is focused on business, government and social issues. The organization has hosted every single sitting president since former President Richard Nixon.

Trump is speaking at 2 p.m. EST at the group’s MotorCity Casino’s Sound Board Theater.

Details about Trump’s speech have not been disclosed.

The Consumer Price Index indicated inflation ended on a relatively steady note, with consumer prices around 2.7 percent higher than a year ago – numbers that remain consistent with November’s report.

“JUST OUT: Great (LOW!) Inflation numbers for the USA. That means that Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell should cut interest rates, MEANINGFULLY!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday morning. He attributed the lower inflation numbers to his tariffs.

The president’s comments arrive as his administration is increasing pressure on Powell and Fed chairs to cut interest rates faster.

The latest CPI also pulled down the cost of used cars and trucks, which fell slightly more than 1 percent in December.

Trump may mention the new report in his Tuesday address at the Detroit Economic Club.

Donald Trump claimed that “prices are way down” for Americans in a new interview touting his apparent economic success.

The president said his administration was doing a “great job on the word ‘affordability’” despite claiming just weeks ago that the word was a “hoax” created by the Democratic Party.

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Speaking to reporters briefly, Trump lashed out at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell before boarding Marine One for Michigan.

“Well, he’s billions of dollars over budget, so he’s either incompetent or he’s crooked. I don’t know what he is, but he certainly doesn’t do a very good job,” Trump told reporters on the White House lawn.

Trump told reporters this morning he will be talking about “how well the economy is doing,” during his visit to Detroit.

“We have tremendous growth numbers, so growth is going up,” Trump began.

“So I’ll be talking about that today in Detroit, it’s a big speech, and I can only say the country’s doing well.”

The president has often bragged about the strength of the U.S. economy – despite recent polling findings that fewer Americans approve of Trump’s handling of the economy.

Across the board, polling shows that Americans are largely dissatisfied with Donald Trump’s handling of the economy. Though the president touts his administration’s ability to lower prices and make housing more affordable, most people do not appear to agree with that.

As of December, Trump had a 67 percent disapproval rating on the economy, according to an AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll.

The Economist found Trump had approximately an 18 percent net disapproval rating when it comes to jobs and the economy at the end of December.

Real Clear Polling indicated, as of early January, Trump had an overall 55.6 percent disapproval rating and 40 percent approval rating when it comes to the economy.

In a survey by Fox News, 72 percent of respondents rated economic conditions poorly and just 39 percent said they approve of the way Trump was handling the economy.