President Trump told a rally crowd in Georgia on Saturday night that Audi has committed to build a $4.2 billion manufacturing plant in Macon, producing 200,000 cars a year, with construction beginning next month. Just the News reported the announcement that evening.

“This will be the single largest investment in U.S. auto industry history,” Trump said.

He also said, of the wider industry, “fifty-eight percent of our auto business was gone. It’s all coming back.” He put the broader figure at $40 billion and 30,000 new jobs across the auto sector, not at this one plant.

Audi is the last major German marque without an American factory, which is what makes the announcement significant beyond the dollar figure.

Several things about this report are worth stating plainly rather than leaving a reader to assume them.

The announcement came from the President at a campaign rally eight days before an election. As of that reporting, Audi had issued no statement of its own confirming the investment, the site or the timeline.

Outlets covering it do not agree on the details either. The investment is given as $4.2 billion in most accounts and $4 billion in at least one. The site is placed in Macon by most and near Fort Valley, about twenty miles away, by another.

Job counts vary the same way. Around 4,500 direct jobs is the figure most coverage carries for the plant itself, which is a different number from the 30,000 Trump cited for the whole industry.

The timeline is the widest gap. Trump said construction starts next month. At least one account reports construction beginning in 2027, with production by the early 2030s.

None of that makes the announcement false. It makes it an announcement rather than a groundbreaking, and the distinction will matter in about three months when somebody checks whether there is a crew on the ground in Macon.

The administration’s case for why it is happening is straightforward. Tariffs raised the cost of building cars abroad and shipping them here, so a foreign manufacturer builds here instead. Trump credited Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick with the deal and brought Audi executives on stage.

Georgia votes on November 3, with the governor’s office and Jon Ossoff’s Senate seat both on the ballot.