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Trump just gave the green light to Nippon Steel’s $14B buyout of U.S. Steel, calling it a win for America while handing the factory keys to Tokyo. MAGA hats didn’t mention outsourcing your job to Japan, but hey—at least the stockholders are smiling. Workers? Not so much.

Clara reporting. MAGA meets mergers and the workers get melted down.

In a move so ironic it could rust a factory floor, Donald Trump has backed the $14 billion sale of U.S.

Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel—yes, that U.S.

Steel, the one he once wrapped in flags and promised to protect.

The former president-turned-campaign-headliner is calling it a “great deal” for America, which is exactly the sort of thing you say when the only people celebrating are holding stock options, not welding torches.

Let’s rewind.

This is the man who campaigned in 2016 wearing a hard hat, swearing up and down Rust Belt towns that steel was sacred and outsourcing was treason.

Now, with one corporate handshake, he’s sold off the symbolic heart of American industry.

To Tokyo. And called it patriotic. Nippon gets the mills. Shareholders get a windfall.

Steelworkers? They get to update their résumés—again.

The backlash has already started. Union leaders are furious. U.S.

workers who lived through the steel collapse of the 2000s feel like déjà vu just punched them in the throat.

And Trump’s base, many of whom are those workers, are now staring down a brutal contradiction: the guy who said he’d bring back jobs just signed off on shipping the factory keys across the Pacific.

Supporters are scrambling to spin it as “foreign investment” or a “strategic partnership,” but the optics?

Brutal.

For every shareholder who’s toasting the bump, there’s a welder wondering how much longer he has health insurance.

This isn’t just a business deal.

It’s a case study in how political loyalty gets traded for profit margins.

Trump didn’t forget the steelworkers. He remembered they don’t write campaign cheques.

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