Trump falsely suggests there were no supply chain issues when he was president

Donald Trump claimed in an interview that global supply chain problems did not exist while he was in office.

If corporate America had listened to Trump, they would have brought their plants back to the United States and there would be no supply chain. There would be no shortages or bare shelves.

Nobody ever heard of the term supply chain, according to Trump.

This was the thing, let's talk about the supply chain. It was automatic. It was embedded. It was embedded in a free country. It was in our country. We did not talk about supply chain. Now all of a sudden that's all the two words that people are using most because you can't get anything.

We have even that messed up because nobody talked about supply chain. Our country is a mess. He said that the country is an absolute disaster.

US industries have been stressed by supply chain issues. The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach experienced major cargo delays ahead of the holiday season. In response, President Joe Biden ordered the ports to operate 24 hours a day and called on large businesses and shipping companies to increase their operations.

The worst of the shipping crisis is behind the country, but the global supply chain is still not healed, according to economists at Wall Street banks.

Store shelves have become empty due to the rapid spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant. According to a survey conducted by the Census Bureau, nearly 9 million people were out of work because they were sick or caring for sick people. That equates to about 6 percent of the workforce. Retailers are stuck without the manpower or the goods to keep their shelves stocked because of the severe winter storms.

When Trump was in the White House, there were a lot of supply chain issues related to the COVID-19 epidemic. The global supply chains would be impacted by the H1N1 epidemic as Trump urged Americans to be cautious and as panic set in, it became clear that global supply chains would be impacted. Trump said at the time that Americans don't have to buy so much. Relax.

The case for increasing domestic manufacturing was made by Trump using supply chain issues. He said in April 2020 that we cannot rely on foreign nations.

We have to start bringing our supply chains back.

The meat-processing plants were declared critical infrastructure by Trump, as he downplayed the threat of COVID-19 and ignored public health recommendations.

There were supply chain issues under Trump. In the face of a lot of criticism, Trump punted the issue to the states, saying it was their responsibility and not the federal government's. The executive order said that the continued functioning of the national meat and poultry supply chain undermined critical infrastructure during the national emergency.

The Defense Product Act, a Korean War-era law that gives presidents broad authority to compel industries to produce supplies for the purpose of national defense, was resisted by Trump. Critics say he didn't go far enough when he used the law to address shortages.

Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, told the New York Times that Trump's use of theDPA was too late.