Trump’s caps are made in California, not China
Not welcoming Donald Trump to the Texas capital, a legislator said she can’t wait for Hillary Clinton’s election and improved chances of comprehensive immigration reform.
State Rep. Celia Israel, joining fellow Austin Democrats at a press conference before Trump’s Austin events last Tuesday, also declared that voters wouldn’t forget the Republican presidential nominee’s vows to build a wall on the border with Mexico and to round up and deport people living here without legal authorization.
“Your words are cheap, Mr. Trump,” Israel said, “as cheap as the made-in-China gimme caps that proclaim that you will make America great again.”
Hold on: Our sister fact-checking site PunditFact ruled in October 2015 that tweets claiming that Trump’s “Make America Great Again” caps were made in China were incorrect and ridiculous. Snopes.com reached a similar conclusion.
The campaign hats weremade in California, each organization found, with knockoffs sewn elsewhere.
At the time, Hope Hicks, a Trump campaign spokeswoman,