President Donald Trump nominated David MacNeil to be a US Federal Trade Commissioner, according to statement posted on the White House website.
MacNeil is the Chief Executive Officer of WeatherTech, an Illinois-based company selling automotive accessories. He will replace Melissa Holyoak, who left the agency late last year to serve as US Attorney for Utah, and joins two other Republicans, chair Andrew Ferguson and Commissioner Mark Meador.
A billionaire who supported Trump starting in 2016, MacNeil gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Republican National Committee and state Republican parties during the 2024 election season, according to campaign finance records.
Last year, Trump nominated MacNeil to be the Ambassador at Large for Industrial and Manufacturing Competitiveness. He was never confirmed and the Senate returned his nomination to the president at the end of the year.
At WeatherTech, founded in 1989, MacNeil has been a prominent supporter of American manufacturing, producing nearly all products in the US. WeatherTech brought in $900 million in revenue in 2024, according to an interview MacNeil gave last year with CBS Evening News. The FTC polices “Made in America” claims and enforces truth-in-advertising laws as part of its consumer protection portfolio.
“Being deceptive, and saying it’s made in America when it’s not, is not fair,” MacNeil told CBS. “We love having American workers and we love having our factories right here on American soil.”
Contact information for MacNeil wasn’t immediately available.
MacNeil has spent the past several years in Florida, buying up several properties in Manalapan, a town south of Palm Beach popular with billionaires including Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison, according to the Palm Beach Post.
The nomination was announced shortly after the White House pulled its support for its previous candidate for the FTC role, Ryan Baasch, a staffer on the National Economic Council.
FTC Chair Ferguson congratulated MacNeil, writing on X, “I look forward to working with this outstanding businessman and great patriot.”
Photo: The Federal Trade Commission headquarters in Washington, DC. Photographer: Ting Shen/Bloomberg
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