Trump Threatens to Cut Off German Car Sales
And in other news from the front lines of Cheeto Jesus’ Embarrass America Again tour, at a meeting with European leaders yesterday, Trump threatened to cut off German car sales in the US. That’s right folks, no more German cars. In the meeting, he threatened to cut off sales and impose a 35% import tax. He also called Germans “very bad”. What an ass (sorry Momma).
In this latest episode of urinating on allies, Trump forgot a few things:
- The BMW X3, X4, X5, and X6 are built in the Bavarian state of…North Carolina.
- The Volkswagen Passat is built in Southern German state of Tennessee.
- The Mercedes C Class, M Class, and GL Class are built in the German state of Alabamdama.
- Other countries where German cars are made are Mexico, Hungary, Slovakia, and France.
The facts are that a huge number of German cars sold in the US are made in the US. More importantly, of the top 15 productive auto plants in the US, 7 are foreign owned. Like other industries, the global auto industry is complex. Some cars built in the US are actually exported to…Germany. Some are sold here, and some are exported to other countries. The issues of trade and trade imbalances do not lend themselves to platitudes and childish name calling.
As in most issues Trump has talked about, he takes a simpleton approach to complex issues. Slapping a 35% tariff on imports from Germany would have an immediate and catastrophic effect, costing Americans thousands of jobs and driving costs up for everyone. If Trump spent less time on pissing off allies, and more time getting his own goddam house in order, we’d be the better for it. Or, would someone please just get him a Coke and bag of Cheetos and put him in front of a television so he can just flip channels all day?
It’s zero days since we were embarrassed by this parasite infesting the WH.
It’s a pretty safe bet that the Trumplethinskin got his precious little fee fees hurt by the warm reception those nasty Germans just gave that N***** Obama. Can’t have that Black Boy being more warmly received than His Orange Eminence. HOE is so very transparent it’s SAD!
1RA, you got it so right. Mangled apricot hellbeast is appallingly ignorant, uneducated, tactless, rude and just plan stupid. He is way too ignorant of any important world matters to concern himself with a little thing like where cars are made. If those plants move because of hishortible remarks, is traitor trump going to find jobs for the workers? Hell no!(sorry Momma) he’s way too busy starving children and murdering poor people. Oh BTW, he told the National Endowment for the Arts to close. He wouldn’t know art if it bit him. That’s a slap in New York’s face. They really hate him there. I agree. He must be removed from office. His lying is bad enough but he will cause a diplomatic incident that will blow up in his evil face. And as we no longer have a functional State Department his mouth is a time bomb. Traitor trump is worse for America than ISIS and Al Quada put together. YOU OWN THIS ONE, GOP! This clusterfuck is on your heads, McConnell and Ryan and all of your evil, foul quisling comrades. And you are up to your eyes in the muck of the Russia scandal. May you all lose your seats, wealth, power. Cause when you’re no longer useful to your masters/owners, you will be abandoned.
2Makes sense as he did promise to stop ALL immigration!
3And aren’t those cars fur-in-ers? But they aint muslin!!
Just an update – BMW plant is in South Carolina, not North Carolina… but still NOT foreign :–)
Thanks for all your work on this web site! Keep up the good work!
4It’s Aladambama, not Alabamdama
5And Dunce Cap Trump keeps bugging Angela Merkel for a deal on trade, while she has repeatedly informed DCT that he must negotiate with the European Union, not individual countries.
6It doesn’t seem to be getting through that thick Agent Orange- covered head.
All I can say is that CJ’s ancestors at least did not come from Berlin
7Does he do any research before he opens his mouth? I have yet to say this but have always thought this too benign a word , but he is a complete moron. I have said it! The way his mouth is going we will have no friends left, really UK and Germany our closest allies! This have to stop, you are right give him a bag of cheetos and a coke and just let him watch TV!
8Yet his supporters, who would be the most hurt by those lost jobs, still loooooove him. “America’s “poorest white town” — Beattyville, Kentucky — voted overwhelmingly for Trump. Any cuts to the safety net would be felt acutely by its residents: 57% of households in Beattyville receive food stamps and 58% get disability payments from the government.
“I am still happy with President Trump,” says Barbara Puckett, who lives in Beattyville and has been on Social Security disability since the late 1990s because of sclerosis.”
“I am still happy with Trump” – I just can’t get my head around the sheer stupidity of 40% of Americans.
9Y’know what frightens me? El Jefe is just one person with a computer, an internet connection, and a sharp, intelligent mind, capable of fashioning insightful, informative remarks like this post. Something that “brain trust” in the WH is apparently incapable of doing. The frightening part? They run this country.
10@Cheryl
I read that too. And chuckled. “…Barbara Puckett, who lives in Beattyville and has been on Social Security disability since the late 1990s because of sclerosis.”
Sclerosis IS of course a medical condition, but the word also means “excessive resistance to change”, which I tend to believe is the right definition of Ms Puckett’s sclerosis, whether she does or does not receive medical treatment for an “abnormal hardening of body tissue”.
11Dolt45* is a poor excuse for a human being, much less US president. Not only is he ignorant, idiotic, and immature, he is a bully without the tiniest smidgen of discretion or dignity. His is a malign, calamitous aura, one that negatively impacts every situation. As others have so perspicaciously observed, he is a reverse Midas – everything he touches turns to excrement, cow patties, mule dung. EVERYTHING!!! What he did to/with ca$inos, real estate, marriage, child rearing, celebrity, he’s now doing to our government, our economy, our environment, our healthcare, our relations with foreign leaders, and our status around the globe. What an embarrassment!
12FIFY:
13“It’s zero days since we were NOT embarrassed by this parasite infesting the WH.”
I think Trump does have some sort of jumbled knowledge of where the VW is made in this country, particularly of Tennessee where the workforce actually tried to bring in a union! I think that is what really, really bugs him!
14The top 3 selling vehicles in the US are pickup trucks made by the US Big Three. The next 8 are cars made by Japanese countries. You have to go pretty far down the list to get to German cars. As usual, Trumpholio rails against a meaningless target and doesn’t understand the situation at all. And neither do his idiot consersheep followers who believe in him and praise hime to the skies.
15U.S. carmakers today made clear they have not asked the Trump administration to restrict imports of cars from Germany, after Trump was quoted Thursday as saying that the “Germans are bad, very bad,” and that he’d stop “the millions of cars they are selling in the U.S.” Matt Blunt, president of the American Automotive Policy Council, said in an email: “It’s hard to imagine that any outright ban of any auto manufacturing country’s vehicles is being contemplated. In fact, the United States is one of the most open automotive markets in the world. We appreciate the administration’s efforts to ensure that we have similar access to other markets.” And German automakers pushed back , noting that they create more than 100,000 U.S. jobs. Meanwhile, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn was on cleanup duty, telling reporters today that Trump said only that Germany is “very bad on trade, but he doesn’t have a problem with Germany.”
16Barbara Puckett’s Facebook page is public (she is not very bright) and among her many pictures are numerous ones of her hiking in hilly country. If she can hike, why can’t she work?
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