In New Ad, U.S. Shirtmaker Criticizes Trump for Outsourcing Jobs, Making Products Overseas
Small Business Owner: 'Trump Says He'll Make America Great Again While He's Taking the Shirts Right Off Our Backs'
A new Hillary for America television ad set to air this week features a Massachusetts shirt manufacturer who employs more than 60 people criticizing Donald Trump for outsourcing jobs to make his products, including shirts, abroad. In the ad, Robert Kidder, the owner of New England Shirt Company in Fall River, says, "This factory has been here since 1883. We have over 60 people here making shirts labeled 'Made in America,' but Donald Trump's brand of shirts come from China, his suits from Mexico, his coats from India." Going back to the colonial era, Fall River, Mass., has been central to America's textile industry, and the New England Shirt Company remains the oldest operating ready-to-wear shirt manufacturer in America.
The ad, 'Shirts,' joins a previously released ad, "Some Place," in spotlighting Trump's long history of making Trump-branded products outside of America as part of a concerted effort over the past month to contrast Trump's hypocritical business record with Hillary Clinton's agenda to make the economy work for everyone, not just those at the top. The new ad follows Clinton's announcement Tuesday of new plans to jumpstart small business startups and strengthen small business growth. Kidder, the small business owner, closes the new ad, "Donald Trump says he'll 'make America great again' while he's taking the shirts right off our backs."
The 30-second ad is a part of the campaign's previously announced broadcast buy in Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Clinton will make the largest investment in job creation since World War II in her first 100 days in office and has proposed a comprehensive "Make It In America" strategy to boost U.S. manufacturing and crack down on corporations that ship jobs overseas.
