Skepticism mires Trump’s Iowa steel plant project: ‘Promises are not the same as jobs’

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Donald Trump has long sought to portray himself as a man of steel, from the White House photoshopping Trump to look like Superman, to enacting tariffs on steel and approving the sale of US Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel with a ”golden” share given to the US government. Most recently, the Trump administration announced plans to construct the largest steel plant in the US, a $15bn plant in Lee county, Iowa to be built by India-based Mesabi Metallics. But the project and claims surrounding it have incited skepticism over whether the plant will be built and delivered as promised, given…

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