Coronavirus: Trump demands GM start making ventilators – despite cancelling earlier deal
Donald Trump has demanded Ford and General Motors pivot to making ventilators that could save lives amid the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, in a tweet urging the Chevrolet maker to re-open an Ohio assembly plant the company no longer owns.
The demand follows just one day after a report indicated the White House had decided earlier in the week to curb a plan for General Motors to begin making those lifesaving devices, amid concerns that the $1 billion price tag for making them was simply too high.
"General Motors MUST immediately open their stupidly abandoned Lordstown plant in Ohio, or some other plant, and START MAKING VENTILATORS, NOW!!!!!! FORD, GET GOING ON VENTILATORS, FAST!!!!!!" Mr Trump wrote on Twitter, referencing the plant that General Motors announced it had sold in November.
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