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Trump Promised a Golden Age. Then a Montana Lumber Plant Closed Down.
August 12, 2025/

Anger over well-paid manufacturing jobs giving way to lower-wage work fueled President Trump’s rise. With his movement now in power, who gets blamed as the trend continues?
The elites are doing great in a Montana buoyed by technology and tourism, they say, but blue collar workers are slipping farther behind.
Even an ardent Trump supporter, Josh Smith, who owns the Montana Knife Company, posted a YouTube video complaining that tariffs were driving up his costs for imported steel and a $400,000 German-made grinding machine.



