President Trump Wins Big Ohio Manufacturing Investment from Australia's Pratt Industries

“President Trump welcomed Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in Wapakoneta, Ohio at Pratt Industries, along with factory owner Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt, as he touted an ‘economic revival’ of the manufacturing industry with the promise of more foreign investment and a surge in new jobs,” Suzanne O'Halloran reports for Fox Business. “We proudly declare Pratt Industries and the great, great state of Ohio open for business . . . Pratt has pledged, as I said, to invest many billions in the United States,” the President said to a “U-S-A”-chanting crowd. “Pratt is creating 5,000 new jobs, helped in part by Trump's tax cuts which included lowering the corporate tax rate to 21 percent from 35 percent,” O’Halloran writes. “Trump noted foreign companies invested $250 billion in the United States last year alone.” Click here to read more.

First Lady Melania Trump “rang the opening bell on Wall Street Monday, kicking off a busy week for the first couple in their hometown of New York,” Tom Howell Jr. reports in The Washington Times. “Mrs. Trump was surrounded by students as she participated in the popular ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange. People on the trading floor whooped and hollered after the bell rang out at 9:30 a.m.” “The logo of Mrs. Trump’s signature program, ‘Be Best,’ was projected on the wall above them. The initiative encourages children to fulfill their potential, exercise good habits online and avoid bullying and drugs.”

“U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared a stage and showered each other with praise on Sunday at a ‘Howdy, Modi!’ rally attended by upward of 50,000 people, a rare mass showing for a foreign leader on American soil,” Reuters reports. Hailing the U.S.-India relationship, the President called the gathering a “profoundly historic event,” and was greeted with a standing ovation by the Indian-American crowd.

Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump is taking her signature push for women's rights and women's empowerment, the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative (WGDP), to an audience of global thought leaders today at the Concordia Annual Summit, Savannah Behrmann reports for USA Today. After discussing the initiative with Concordia CEO Matt Swift this morning, Ms. Trump will attend “a separate event that highlights participants in a international leadership program of the WGDP who are touring the U.S. in order to develop ideas and action plans about women's economic participation in their home countries.”