Trump Urges Foreign Companies To Train American Workers In Complex Manufacturing

President Donald Trump is calling on foreign companies to help rebuild America’s industrial strength by bringing in their own experts to train U.S. workers in advanced manufacturing.

In a Truth Social post Sunday, Trump said that companies investing heavily in the U.S. should temporarily bring specialists from their home countries to share knowledge of how to produce complex products such as ships, semiconductors, computers, and trains.

“When foreign companies who are building extremely complex products, machines, and various other ‘things,’ come into the United States with massive investments, I want them to bring their people of expertise for a period of time to teach and train our people,” Trump wrote. He emphasized that the arrangement would end once U.S. workers were capable of taking over production themselves.

Trump pointed to industries where the U.S. once led the world but has since fallen behind. Shipbuilding was a prime example: America once produced “a ship a day,” but now “barely builds a ship a year.” By welcoming foreign investment and expertise, Trump said, the U.S. can relearn lost skills and restore its manufacturing dominance.

The president stressed that the move would not only benefit U.S. workers but also ensure foreign companies feel confident investing here:

• Experts would help train American workers quickly, speeding up production timelines.

• Massive investments in U.S. facilities would be more likely if companies could rely on a temporary transfer of skills.

• The U.S. would emerge stronger in industries critical to economic and national security.

“We welcome them, we welcome their employees, and we are willing to proudly say we will learn from them and do even better than them at their own ‘game,’ sometime into the not too distant future,” Trump said.

The announcement comes as Trump’s tariffs face legal scrutiny. The Supreme Court said last week it will decide the legality of Trump’s sweeping tariffs, a central part of his economic agenda. Earlier this month, Trump claimed the tariffs have already driven over $15 trillion in new U.S. investment and warned that without them, America could become a “Third World Nation.”

By combining tough trade policies with a strategy to rebuild American know-how, Trump is signaling that his administration is serious about restoring U.S. leadership in manufacturing.

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