More winning and another example of the impact of having a businessman at the helm as POTUS. ‘They’ always say it can’t be done and Trump proves them wrong every time.
Let me get this straight… they spent years locking up the mines and starving American steel, and today President Trump is standing in the Oval Office announcing a $15 billion Mesabi Metallics mill in Iowa that White House officials are calling one of the largest steel plants in American history. 1,750 permanent Iowa jobs. Up to 6,000 construction jobs. About $95 billion into the U.S. economy over the next decade. Iron ore from a brand new Minnesota mine, the first new iron ore mine in this country in 50 years, melted and poured here instead of begging the world for metal.
How long were you supposed to clap while they canceled leases, banned mining across hundreds of thousands of acres, and let foreign steel flood in while generational Americans watched the mills die? The White House put it in writing… Obama blocked northern Minnesota copper nickel leases in 2016, Biden canceled them in 2022, then banned mining for 20 years across 225,504 acres of the Superior National Forest, and piled rules on the plants that feed American steel while tariff loopholes kept the imports coming. Make no mistake, that was the plan. They told you it was about the environment and the vibes while your towns emptied and your kids left, and now they will act shocked that somebody finally greenlit a mill again.
And yet look at what happens when somebody actually works the problem. Crude steel output is up 9% since Trump came back. Nearly 6,000 steelworker jobs added after almost 10,000 were lost under the last crew. American mills now supply 84% of the finished steel market, up from 77% in 2024. The first phase alone is 7.5 million tons a year, rising toward about ten million. New mill orders hit a record $17.3 billion in July 2026. Do you still want to pretend this country cannot build anything real, or are you just mad the people who break rocks and pour heat are back in the story?
Here is the reality. Mined in Minnesota, melted in Iowa, poured for America… that is not a slogan, that is a supply chain they spent a decade trying to choke off. Fox just put the announcement on the wire and somehow half of you still act like manufacturing is a costume. Think I am wrong? Show me the last time the prior crew opened an iron ore mine instead of a press conference.
I care about my people… the ones who pour the steel and dig the ore and still get lectured by people who never set foot in a mill. Keep pouring the steel. Change my mind.