'Grinding to a halt': Stunning chart shows Trump’s impact on Biden 'manufacturing boom'

President Donald Trump claims that U.S. manufacturing slowed down during former President Joe Biden's four years in the White House, and he insists that his tariff-driven trade policy will lead to a renaissance in manufacturing jobs.

But according to Cleanview Energy founder Michael Thomas, Biden — not Trump — is the one with the stronger record on manufacturing jobs.

In a Thursday, April 10 post on X, formerly Twitter, Thomas posts, "The manufacturing boom that started under the Biden administration is grinding to a halt under Trump." And Thomas backs it up with a chart.

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The chart, using U.S. Census Bureau figures, shows data on manufacturing jobs between 2016 (when Barack Obama was still president) and 2025 (when Trump returned to the White House). Altogether, the chart offers data spanning four presidential administrations.

U.S. manufacturing jobs, according to the chart, declined slightly during Trump's first presidency — before surging during Biden's four years as president. The chart shows the number of manufacturing jobs continuing to climb under Biden, peaking in 2024 before starting to decrease under Trump.

In separate tweets, Heatmap News' Matthew Zeitlin and Hassan Khan offer some reasons why Trump's policies aren't conducive to creating manufacturing jobs.

Zeitlin, in an April 10 tweet, notes that "buyouts at the department of energy could cripple its industrial policy efforts."

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In response to Zeitlin, Khan tweets, "The dismantling of LPO and sidelining of CHIPS staff are not things you do if your primary goal is re-industrialization. They’re doing this because they spite anything the other guys did."

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