DETROIT -- Sixteen months after Mary Barra angered Donald Trump by asserting plans to shut a number of U.S. factories in states the president vowed to revive, the Normal Motors CEO is again on the outs with the White Home.

Not like in late 2018, Trumps Friday fracas over ventilators caught GM fully off guard, individuals conversant in the matter instructed Bloomberg. Trump first went on a Twitter tirade, accusing the corporate of taking too lengthy to make the desperately wanted medical units and of making an attempt to gouge the federal government. By the night, he dredged up an outdated grudge, taking one other shot on the automaker for closing a automotive manufacturing unit in Ohio.

Executives at GM -- which had labored across the clock for every week to transform an Indiana elements plant right into a breathing-machine manufacturing unit -- have been themselves annoyed over how lengthy it was taking the federal authorities to finalize phrases with its associate Ventec Life Programs Inc., mentioned individuals conversant in the non-public deliberations.

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