Ford plans to move four factories back to the U.S., along with 25,000 high-paying jobs, all thanks to U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2025 tariffs.
This untrue rumor, circulated widely on social media, originated with America’s Last Line of Defense (ALLOD) — a network of Facebook pages and websites whose owner or owners described their content as satirical in nature.
A rumor that users circulated online in March 2025 claimed Ford motor company planned to move four factories back to the U.S., along with 25,000 jobs, all thanks to President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
For example, on March 26, a Facebook user posted (archived) a meme reading, “Ford is moving four factories back to the U.S., along with 25,000 high-paying jobs! But please… keep telling me that tariffs don’t work.” The post received over 10,000 shares. Other users widely shared the rumor on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, Truth Social and X.
Some readers, including the thousands who interacted with the aforementioned posts, seemed to interpret the matter as a factual recounting of real-life events. One progressive TikTok user claimed (archived) of the rumor, “It is being shared on MAGA sites like a virus.”
But the rumor about Ford originated with America’s Last Line of Defense (ALLOD) — a network of Facebook pages and websites whose owner or owners described their output as being satirical in nature. A small “ALLOD” watermark logo appeared near the bottom-right corner of the meme.
Ford spokesperson Dan Barbossa told Snopes via email, “We have 24 plants in the U.S., employ the most U.S. hourly employees, produce the most vehicles in America and are America’s largest vehicle exporter.” Regarding the rumor that Ford planned on moving four factories back to the U.S., he said the company made no such announcements.
America’s Last Line of Defense
The America’s Last Line of Defense Facebook page first featured the meme (archived) on March 26. The page’s bio read, “The flagship of the ALLOD network of trollery and propaganda for cash. Nothing on this page is real.”
A manager for the Facebook page also shared in a comment a link to an article (archived) on its associated website, The Dunning-Kruger Times. The website’s “About Us” page (archived) featured a disclaimer about its content containing “parody, satire and tomfoolery,” including a reference to Snopes’ many fact checks of its stories.
The name of the satire-based website referenced the Dunning-Kruger effect, defined by Britannica as “a cognitive bias whereby people with limited knowledge or competence in a given intellectual or social domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain relative to objective criteria or to the performance of their peers or of people in general.”
The article began:
Ford is Moving Four Factories Back to the US, Along with 25,000 High-Paying Jobs!
In what is being hailed as a major victory for American manufacturing, Ford Motor Company has announced it will be relocating four of its factories from overseas back to the United States — bringing with it 25,000 high-paying jobs for hardworking Americans.
“This is exactly what we’ve been fighting for,” said Ford spokesperson Joe Barron, while standing in front of an oversized American flag for dramatic effect. “We’re making America the auto manufacturing powerhouse it used to be, just like in the good old days — back when cars were big, gas was cheap, and nobody asked questions about workplace safety.”
Ford CEO Jim Farley on Trump tariffs
The fictional story about Ford moving factories spread as news media outlets reported on the potential actual effects of Trump’s proposed tariffs on automakers.
Ford CEO Jim Farley spoke in February on the subject of Trump’s tariffs at the Wolfe Research Auto, Auto Tech and Semiconductor Conference in New York, per MarketScreener:
I think President Trump has talked a lot about making our U.S. auto industry stronger, bringing more production here [and] more innovation in the U.S. And if his administration can achieve that, it would be one of the, I think, one of the most signature accomplishments.
So far, what we’re seeing is a lot of cost and a lot of chaos. If you look at the tariffs, let’s be real honest. Long term, a 25 percent tariff across the Mexico and Canadian border will blow a hole in the U.S. industry that we have never seen. And frankly, it gives free reign to South Korean and Japanese and European companies that are bringing 1.5 to 2 million vehicles into the U.S. that wouldn’t be subject to those Mexican and Canadian tariffs. So it would be one of the biggest windfalls for those companies ever.
Snopes has addressed other claims about Ford in the past, including the true assertion that the automaker created a “Very Gay Raptor” truck, as well as a misleading meme comparing fire-related fatalities attributed to the 1970s Ford Pinto with those associated with modern-day Tesla electric vehicles (EVs).
For background, here is why we alert readers to rumors created by sources calling their output humorous or satirical.