Toyota announced that it will invest in a $3.6 billion expansion at its San Antonio manufacturing campus, creating 2,000 new high-quality jobs.

The investment will add a second vehicle assembly line, create jobs and add 2.5 million square feet to Toyota Texas in the next four years, according to a press release from Toyota on Monday.

Toyota will transition the production of the Tacoma truck from Toyota Motor Manufacturing Baja California located in Tijuana, Mexico, to Toyota Texas in San Antonio over the next four years. Toyota will continue to assemble the Tacoma in Guanajuato, Mexico as well, according to Melinda Louden, spokesperson for Toyota.

The San Antonio plant is already the exclusive home of the Tundra and Sequoia.

While speaking in Ankara, Turkey at the NATO summit on Tuesday, President Donald Trump cited Toyota’s investment in San Antonio as part of $19.2 trillion in total investment being invested in the United States, in a 12-month period. He claimed this is a world record.

“Toyota is moving out of Mexico into the United States and building one of the biggest truck and car plants ever built. It’s amazing. That’s what tariffs do, if properly used,” Trump said. “We’ve never had a more exceptional economy or potential economy. There’s never been anything like it. Under the last administration, they did much less than a trillion dollars of investment coming in, and we’re at $19.2 trillion in actually the first 12 months.”

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