A steel plant owner looked President Trump dead in the eye and said two words that tell you everything about what's really happening in America right now: "tariffs work."
Andrew Saville, owner of Coosa Steel in Rome, Georgia, wasn't delivering talking points or political spin. He was speaking truth from a man whose American company went from operating ONE HOUR per week to running full capacity around the clock—all because Trump's tariff policies saved his business from globalist destruction.
For over 50 years, Coosa Steel has been making steel racks and plates with American workers, American sweat, and products stamped Made in the USA. Then the globalists got their way. China flooded the market with subsidized products at $90 a piece while American production costs sat at $150. There was no competing with communist slave labor.
Two shifts six days a week collapsed to one shift, then three days, then one day, then one measly hour per week. That's what decades of failed trade policy—NAFTA, Clinton-era deals, and Obama telling business owners "you didn't build that"—actually produced: ghost shifts in empty factories across America.
Then Trump Won. Everything Changed.
In October 2025, Saville's company landed their first massive tire rack order in ten years. The order was so large he thought it was a mistake. It wasn't a mistake—it was tariffs working exactly as promised.
Now Coosa Steel runs two shifts a day, six days a week, with a 36-week lead time on orders. They installed a brand new crane just two months ago. When Trump pointed at it and asked how long it had been there, Saville's answer was simple: "Your policy brought it here, sir."
But this story goes far beyond one steel plant in Georgia. Trump revealed numbers the mainstream media has completely buried: More than 5,000 new manufacturing jobs created in Georgia alone. Over 70,000 construction jobs building new factories across the state. More Americans working today than at ANY TIME in our nation's history.
CPI inflation has fallen to its lowest level since 2021. Real wages are up nearly $1,400. Private sector job growth hit 170,000—real jobs for real Americans, not the inflated government hiring numbers Biden used to fake progress.
The American dream isn't dead, Patriots. It's being rebuilt one tariff, one tax cut, and one executive order at a time. And the Democrats voted against every single one of these America First policies.