US President Donald Trump is not one for letting a chance to do a bit of campaigning slip by and a recent trip to an under-construction Shell petrochemicals plant proved just the ticket in the run up to a shot at re-election next year.

“This would have never happened without me and us,” Trump told an estimated crowd of 5000 at the Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex in Monaca, Beaver County on Tuesday, despite Shell sanctioning the development years before he came to office.