Speaking to a crowd in Macomb County Friday night, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump answered questions from the audience, including from one man eager to know what kind of wheels the former president favors.
"My question to you is basic, it's easy," a man who identified himself as an auto worker named Todd asked Trump. "What is your all, one of your all-time favorite American cars?"
Trump responded by talking about his father Fred Trump. "I learned so much from him, and he loved Cadillac," he said, prompting cheers from the crowd. "I mean, his biggest luxury in life was to get a brand new, dark blue Cadillac every two years. And he would. He would get that car, he said, 'look at this car.' He didn't know about a Rolls Royce," Trump said. "All he liked was Cadillac, and I love it. I think it's a great car."
Trump says he buys a lot of them for "different clubs and things" and the company is run by "very nice people."
"But my father liked Cadillacs and that's good enough for me. Does that make sense? Good," Trump said.
Trump's love for the car isn't new. He previously partnered with Cadillac in the 1980s for a line of limousines named the "Trump series," according to reporting from The Washington Post.
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Michigan's homegrown auto industry continues to produce the car today with the Lansing Grand River Assembly plant produces the Cadillac CT4 and CT5, according to General Motors' website. Factory ZERO Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly will build the all-electric Cadillac Escalade IQ, according to the site.
Before Trump's swing through battleground state Friday — with stops in Walker earlier in the day and Warren in the evening — Democrats from the state refuted Trump's claims that he would spur a stronger manufacturing renaissance than his opponent Vice President Kamala Harris. U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Lansing, underscored manufacturing projects announced in the past four years in Michigan.
"We know that Trump is full of broken promises, and if Trump is in the White House again, our workers, our manufacturers, will pay the price," Stabenow said during a virtual press conference.
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