Sell or do something: Trump tells GM CEO to reopen Ohio plant 'fast'

GM is threatening to close plants that build sedans and compact cars because consumers have been moving to sport-utility vehicles for several years

A day after demanding that General Motors Co. keep open a plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that it’s idling, President Donald Trump said he asked Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra to sell the plant and tried to shift blame to the Democratic leader of the local union.

“I am not happy that it is closed when everything else in our Country is BOOMING,” Trump said in a tweet Sunday after he said he had just spoken to Barra about the plant. “I asked her to sell it or do something quickly.”

Just spoke to Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors about