Oh Good Lord!
Trump is threatening Harley-Davison. Those dudes have motorcycles and leather jackets and such.
Okay, so now Trump doesn’t believe in free enterprise.
He [Trump] alleged that Harley-Davison’s Monday announcement that it would move some more operations outside the United States was long planned and that it was using Europe’s new tariffs as an excuse. He threatened to hit the company with an unspecified tax if it attempted to sell motorcycles in the United States that were made outside the country.
So, Trump’s trade war is certainly costing jobs in the United States as everyone predicted it would, but if a private company says that out loud, Trump will Twitter them to death.
Harley-Davidson had long planned to open a new plant in Thailand, a decision that predated the trade war between Trump and the leaders of a number of other countries. But the firm said Monday that it was shifting more production overseas specifically to blunt the impact of the tariffs imposed by Europe.
Somebody please tell Trump that he’s a loser in the trade war.