Sabrina Siddiqui
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first heard Aug 2025
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WSJ What’s News · Tariffs’ Messy Reality: The Cost-of-Living Election | Part 1: Ohio · 3 May 2026
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He says a lot of workers at the plant voted for Trump and believed his trade policies would help them.
According to them, Kahn-Selmer's mismanagement is to blame for the plant's demise.
Hines also points out that the owner of Conselmer, the hedge fund billionaire John Paulson, was on CNBC in 2024, talking up then-candidate Trump's tariffs as a way to keep manufacturing jobs in the U.S.
Paulson and the president are close, or at least they have been in the past.
He hosted a fundraiser for Trump in the lead-up to his reelection, and he was even in the running to lead the Treasury Department.
Hines says Trump should take advantage of his ties with Paulson to keep the plant open.
In a statement to us, Kahn-Selmer said the decision to close the plant will concentrate its professional brass manufacturing at an existing plant in Elkhart, Indiana, and that it remains, quote, deeply committed to U.S.
manufacturing.
Conselmer is a subsidiary of Steinway.
The iconic piano maker filed to go public in 2022 before dropping that idea the following year.
But in its filing documents, Steinway said tariffs, including retaliatory ones, could slow their production of instruments and, quote, harm our business, reputation, and relationships with our customers.
It also identified China as a growing market, thanks to consumers increasing discretionary spending and government support for music and the arts.
China's gain may be Eastlake's loss, but in under two hours, you can drive to a factory, a much bigger one, that says it's winning as a result of President Trump's trade policy.
At Whirlpool's Washing Machine Factory in Clyde, Ohio, they take safety pretty seriously.
This plant is as big as 30 football fields put together.
At full tilt, it can pump out 22,000 washing machines a day.
On the day I visited last month, Whirlpool announced a new production facility, its sixth in the state of Ohio, that in the next two years will create between 100 and 150 new jobs.
That's roughly as many as will be lost at Conselmer in Eastlake.
The way Whirlpool sees it, the Trump administration's tariffs are leveling the playing field.
The company's CEO, Mark Bitzer, brought up the phrase five times in my sit-down with him.
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