Trump shares crowd photos from Mack Trucks event in Pennsylvania

Trump the president amplified a post by journalist Salena Zito showing a half-mile line outside an America Workers First event at the Mack Trucks plant in the Lehigh Valley.

First Published: July 14, 2026, 7:06 AM ET

WASHINGTON D.C. — Donald Trump amplified images of a rain-soaked crowd outside a Mack Trucks plant in Pennsylvania.

Here is the full post on truthsocial: “https://x.com/zitosalena/status/2069453791.1 billion?s=46 ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena … Line outside of @realDonaldTrump America workers first event inside the massive @MackTrucks in the Lehigh Valley stretches for well over a half a mile in the pouring down rain. Never saw a happier group of people and the doors haven’t even opened yet.”

The president reposted a message from Salena Zito, a Pennsylvania-born political journalist who reports for the Washington Examiner and contributes to The Washington Post (see wikipedia.org). Her post claimed that supporters lined up for more than a half mile in heavy rain ahead of an “America workers first” event at the Mack Trucks facility in the Lehigh Valley. The crowd size and weather claims come from Zito and cannot be verified from the shared images alone.

Trump toured the Mack Trucks facility with Stephen Roy, executive vice president of the Volvo Group and president of Mack Trucks, in Macungie, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, June 23, 2026. The screenshot Trump shared carried a timestamp of 12:13 PM on June 23, 2026, and listed 7,994 views.

The White House is pictured in Washington D.C. on 07/14/2026.

The event places the manufacturing sector at the center of Trump’s economic messaging. Mack Trucks, a heavy-truck maker owned by the Volvo Group, employs workers across the Lehigh Valley, a region long tied to American industrial output. A high-profile visit spotlights domestic manufacturing jobs while giving the president a friendly backdrop for his worker-focused pitch.

For the average reader, the appearance signals continued political focus on factory jobs and trade policy that shape wages and prices for manufactured goods. Pennsylvania remains a decisive battleground state, and events at large employers draw both supporters and scrutiny of the claims made about them.

Has this happened before? Yes. Trump has repeatedly staged events at manufacturing sites and shared supporter crowd images throughout his political career, using industrial venues to reinforce his message on jobs and trade.

President Donald J. Trump shares a social media post from Salena Zito depicting a crowd at Macungie, Pennsylvania, on 06/23/2026.

Who decides what happens next has not been set by any single authority, and no date for a further announcement tied to this event has been made public. Future campaign stops and policy statements will determine how the manufacturing theme develops.

Crowd claims tied to Trump events have drawn dispute before. Zito herself has faced criticism from other reporters who accused her of misrepresenting sources and fabricating quotes in past work (see wikipedia.org). Her 2025 book, Butler, about the attempted assassination of Trump in Pennsylvania, debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list, and she sold the movie rights to Pensé Productions. That reception shows how closely her reporting on Trump’s Pennsylvania base tracks the political fortunes of the man at the center of this post.