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Trump-Ford detente faces big test after immigration decree

Published Sun, Feb 5, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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FEW corporate chieftains seem to have cultivated President Donald Trump quite like Bill Ford.

It had been a rough start, with Mr Trump blasting Ford for building cars in Mexico. But Bill Ford, the executive chairman, pushed ahead, determined to forge a relationship with the new president. When Ford cancelled a new US$1.6 billion plant in Mexico, winning Mr Trump's praise and suggesting his tough talk about jobs was working, the friendship seemed sealed. Mr Trump now calls the 59-year-old Bill Ford "my friend", and the two speak regularly by phone about taxes, currencies and trade.

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