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Over two weeks ago, when the Trump administration met with auto industry leaders, GM seemingly agreed to produce 40,000 ventilators at market rate pricing as soon as possible. Ford and others also agreed to do emergency production for COVID relief. Two weeks later, after noting no action from GM, President Donald J. Trump reminded them of the urgent need and of the taxpayer-funded bailout that saved GM back in 2010. Mary Barra, who is universally recognized as 'not a Trump fan' (and now nationally recognized as not a caring patriot, either) responded with "We can MAYBE do 6,000 ventilators, at a GREATLY increased price, and it will take a WHILE." So President Trump whipped out his famous sharpie and used the Defense Production Act from World War II to do an executive order to force GM to produce the needed 40,000 ventilators immediately, at the market rate! BOOM! It's a sad, sad day when the POTUS has to force what was once the greatest corporation in the world, but now is a greedy, globalist, Tesla-wannabe into producing the promised medical equipment to help our nation try to survive this pandemic emergency! You can bet that Mary & Co are locked in their mansions, eating caviar and drinking champagne, after having extra-soft TP (and other items currently unobtainable by us mere mortals) trucked in!