STURTEVANT, Wisc. (NEWSnet/AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday criticized Donald Trump over a failed project in the previous administration intended to bring thousands of new jobs into southeastern Wisconsin.

Biden also trumpeted new economic investment under his watch that are coming to the same area. That location will be the site of a new data center from Microsoft.

Trump had promised a $10 billion investment by Foxconn that never came.

“(Trump) came here with your senator, Ron Johnson, literally holding a golden shovel, promising to build the eighth wonder of the world. You kidding me?” Biden told the gathering of about 300 people. “They dug a hole with those golden shovels, and then they fell into it.”

Noting that 100 homes were destroyed to make way for the project, wasting hundreds of millions of dollars, Biden added a jab: “Foxconn turned out to be just that — a con. Go figure.”

Biden was in Sturtevant, in Racine County, to promote the $3.3 billion data center. The president said it will employ about 2,300 union construction workers to build it and then 2,000 permanent employees to staff it.

Republican National Committee chairman Michael Whatley said Biden’s trip was an attempt to save face in Racine County.

“Manufacturing has stalled, family farms are shuttering, and costs are up for everything from electricity and gas to food and housing,” Whatley said. “It’s no wonder why Biden is losing in Wisconsin and battleground states across the country: his policies have failed and people want President Trump back in office.”

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