Trump Should Celebrate Not Criticize Ford Motor, Bill Ford Says

Ford Motor Co. is “as American as you can get” and U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump should celebrate the company instead of criticizing it for building small cars in Mexico, the great-grandson of its founder said.

Trump is wrong for saying the automaker is cutting jobs in the U.S. and knows it, Bill Ford, the company’s executive chairman, said today at the World Mobility Leadership Forum near Detroit. Bill Ford said he has a relationship with Trump and doesn’t understand why the candidate has singled out the automaker.

“We are everything that he should be celebrating about this country," Ford told reporters on the sidelines of the forum. “We pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps, we paid back our borrowings, we are healthy again, we’ve been adding jobs in the U.S. and we are the largest manufacturer of cars and trucks in the U.S.”