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President Donald Trump listens to a question as he meets former hostage Danny Burch, an oil engineer hijacked in Yemen in September 2017, at the White House's oval office in Washington on March 6, 2019.
President Donald Trump on Sunday targeted both General Motors and an Ohio union official on an badembly plant that the automaker had shut down earlier this month.
On Saturday, the President tweeted that GM "must" reopen the factory, "perhaps in a different form or with a new owner, FAST!"
Neither Green nor GM immediately responded to CNBC's requests to comment on Trump's tweet.
Trump won the White House partly on the promise to boost manufacturing jobs and US auto production. He has undertaken to renegotiate various free trade agreements, in part to encourage auto manufacturers to produce in the United States.
While Trump had already criticized GM on Sunday, it was apparently the first time that he was targeting Green, a local union official, by his name.
GM had to face considerable pressure from Washington to keep the facility running. Ohio's two US senators – Democrat Sherrod Brown and Republican Rob Portman – pushed the company to keep the job at the plant.
Brown has attempted to enact legislation to make US production more attractive to automakers.
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