Down Is Up: Kellyanne Conway Hails ‘Positive Reaction’ from U.S. Automaker That Just Laid off 900 Workers Amid Trump Tariffs

Fox News contributor Kellyanne Conway offered an all-time spin job after a major U.S. automaker announced it will temporarily lay off 900 workers in the U.S.

On Thursday, Stellantis, whose brands include Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram Trucks, announced the layoffs one day after President Donald Trump rolled out sweeping tariffs on all imports. Stellantis is also pausing production at its factories in Canada and Mexico. Trump’s measures include a 25% tariff on all auto imports and the administration is misleadingly referring to the measures as “reciprocal tariffs,” which it justified by falsely claiming U.S. trading partners have levied exorbitant tariffs on American goods.

Markets did not take well to the plan, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed nearly 1,700 points or about four percent.

Conway, a former White House adviser in the first Trump administration, appeared on Thursday’s edition of The Story on Fox News. Host Martha MacCallum noted the president’s long-held fixation on tariffs and said Trump “is swinging for the fences with all of this.”

“This is President Trump who is echoing much of what he did and wanted to do even more of in his first term and completing that transaction now,” Conway replied before praising Stellantis for halting production in Mexico. While doing so, she elided the issue of the company’s layoffs in the U.S.

“We were seeing some positive reaction today,” she continued. “For all the negative Debbie downers, look at the positive reaction. Stellantis, which owns Chrysler and Ram and Jeep, they came out today and said that they are going to stop producing in Mexico. They are one of the ones, the big manufacturers in Mexico. They’re going to stop doing that.”

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