No, Honda Did Not Lay Off 9,000 U.S. Workers Ahead of Trump Tariffs
By Nicole Dirks
What happened: Left-leaning social media users are falsely claiming that the Honda Motor Company laid off 9,000 U.S. workers, calling the move proof that President Donald Trump’s plans to impose a 25 percent tariff on all cars and car parts imported into the U.S. are resulting in the loss of American jobs.
A closer look: The claim appears to have originated in a since-deleted March 27 X post by Canadian user @CoffeyTimeNews, who frequently shares anti-Trump commentary.
“Honda just laid off 9,000 American workers,” the account stated. “GM and the others will soon follow.” The post received 1.2 million views and 15,000 likes in one day.
Liberal Threads user @dobieblue stated on March 27: “Thanks to trumps tariffs Honda just laid off 9,000 American workers.” The post garnered 1,800 likes and 345 reposts in five days.
Actually: The claim is baseless. It appears to be a misrepresentation of reports from months earlier about another Japanese car company.
In November 2024, Nissan Motor Corporation announced that it planned to cut 9,000 jobs globally after reporting a loss in the third fiscal quarter of the year.
NewsGuard found no reliable reports that Honda laid off any U.S. workers in March 2025. Honda corporate communications manager Marcos Frommer told NewsGuard in a March 2025 email, “Honda has no plans to lay off workers in the US.”
X user @CoffeyTimeNews, who apparently originated the claim, issued a “correction” in a follow-up post and said the claim was based on a misunderstanding of the Nissan planned layoffs. He stated, “CNN reported Honda this morning, but it’s actually Nissan.”
NewsGuard did not find any such CNN report and @CoffeyTimeNews did not respond to a direct message asking what report he was referring to.