Trump announces a rollback in his tariff policy for automobiles, but then says "we give them a little time before we slaughter them if they don't do this."
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Happy to see Donnie embracing
socialism over capitalism via auto subsidies. 👍
And the rubes are lapping it up. Sorry, Donnie, auto prices are still going to rise in 🇺🇸 due to tariffs and shortages.
Is this another rally? Dude is addicted to rallies like he's addicted to Adderall.
Can't survive without the cheering crowd. Needs it like he needs oxygen.
WTF??
And the automakers will slaughter him if he doesn't lift the tariffs by closing US plants because they can't afford to produce with US labor costs and expensive steel and aluminum.
Ah, the MAGA brigade, a veritable cornucopia of cognitive atrophy, so intellectually stunted that they could be out-reasoned by a loaf of moldy bread with more self-awareness than a brick wall painted to look at itself in the mirror.
It literally makes me feel insane that he doesn't have legal authority to impose tariffs absent a nat'l emergency, and yet he constantly admits that he's imposing them for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with a nat'l emergency, and everybody is just like, "Welp! Nothing can be done!"
the continued political rallies, as president, are simultaneously (a) so manipulative, (b) so unseemly, (c) so embarrassing as an american to have other relatively sane democracies seeing this, (d) so maddening to know this is a message the attendees believe.
BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Porsche, Lexus, Acura, are all going “home” ? Then what? You slaughter them? You realize if they don’t send vehicles to the USA because you killed them in your market, you have nothing to tariff? Zero % of Zero is Zero-Zero. JH.
Are you to tell if the venue is full? Just wondering if his cult members are beginning to disengage from him now that they're seeing, in real life, what a second term with Trump is going to mean for them.
He forces all others not to trust in usa anymore but to protect themselves He has no problem with this/his way of destructing because he feels himself to be the greatest now and all fear him and all on earth can be controlled by him sooner or later
Why is this MFer having a rally? I wish MAGA would have realized he just wants attention all the time. Being on TV everyday isn’t enough he has to WASTE time just rambling?
But he told us that he was a very stable genius.
Ok, so he hasn't read the definition of stable.
The only thing 'firmly fixed' about Trump is his stupidity.
The ONE manufacturing industry that the US might get some benefits from a reasonable tariff. He kills that. Who is he slaughtering? China? You see a lot of Chinese cars in America? Musk Trump management, create crisis, solve crisis, claim brilliance for solving it. Threaten 2 do it again.
Electrical and Electronic Equipment: $954.78 billion
Machinery, Nuclear Reactors, Boilers: $551.95 billion
Vehicles (Other Than Railway, Tramway): $150.24 billion
Plastics: $143.53
Articles of Iron or Steel: $110.31 billion Organic Chemicals: $101.89 billionChina makes everything so rich get richer!
Trump “rolls back” tariffs then threatens to slaughter our allies if they don’t obey? This guy’s a walking contradiction with a vengeance complex. All talk, no action—just empty bluster wrapped in menace. He’s not negotiating, he’s LARPing as a mob boss with a golf cart. SAD!
But even then, he's an incompetent clown and the automakers are taking this assuming he will die or be ousted before it matters again. Automakers sell MILLIONS of cars to Canada, for instance, and dipshit here demolished that.
While he a smooth-brain imbecile, he is talking about giving more time for them to move production to the US. You know, ignoring that moving production takes years and it will cost the automakers hundreds of billions of dollars if they did it.
Can't wait to learn someday how much they Trump syndicate took in with bribe money and "donations" from CEO's and companies for tariff on tariff off payments and "special relief"
It's just blustering bullshit to charge up the idiotic MAGA base. This is nonsensical performative crap! Everything he says is rendered meaningless by his self-contradictions.
Jeff Bezos needs to stick with showing the price of those tariffs when we shop at Amazon. If he bends the knee, Trump will keep coming back for more. If Jeff Bezos does the right thing he’ll score points with consumers. The government threatening a private company for telling the price. SMH
On again, off again, on again, off again I'd hate to be attempting to run any manufacturing never knowing when he's going to wake up from a fresh fever dream with some new way to increase overheads and fuck up the supply chain and/or the customer base
wht the fuck would anyone believe a damn thing he says anymore? We have tariffs, no we don't, no we're rolling them back, no we're not, whatever. Just don't do business with him in the first place anymore, why would they?
to every single piece of shit in attendance at that rally - know this- Canada's sovereignty is not negotiable- we don't appreciate being insulted - and to any US soldier "brave" enough to step foot on Canadian soil- we'll feed what's left of you to our wolves, racoons and moose (not a joke!)
How much were those idiots paid to stand there and listen to his lies? I know they’d go anyway, but sounds like another empty venue. Maybe some are waking up.
With all this back and forth, it's easy to lose track. The US government has destroyed all the confidence that companies need to make investment decisions. Well done, the recession is coming.
So he went to Michigan to talk about how HE is for workers (in his distorted view of the world), then hits them with “I reduced the tariffs..” the very thing HE believes will help the workers he claims to support?
How does he get a pass for standing for everything and nothing?
It's actually the automakers that can get him by firing all Americans, opening in factories in other countries and charging us high prices for imports.
He has to hold these 'look at me rallies' because even the dead Pope didn't want him at his funeral. This guy is insane. No other way around it. He's absolutely insane.
But you wanna know who can build a factory quickly as well as change production in existing factories in a month? China 🤣🤣
Trump is a petty, emotional, narcissistic man-child. Would you make a deal with him? I wouldn't. Can't be trusted. No honour.
Another problem is where are the car companies going to come up with the $billions to build multiple plants? They are not hugely profitable and I'm sure the stockholders would have something to say about abandoning perfectly good plants in Canada & Mexico
Japanese makers have been heavily investing in American markets over the past 2 decades at the least. Toyota is a good example of that. Multiple plants and they're always expanding ones they have to build more. The engine plant in Alabama recently did a $282mil expansion.
Those people standing behind him must have got paidTo be thereBecause with all the lies that he's telling I don't know anybody that would be there to listen to this without getting paid He says the electric cars mandate will not Exist But eli musk owns the biggest electric car company How dum rthey
Trashtalking nincompoop.
Thinks the world isn't on to him, his recreant rollover Republicans and in the dark dumbass donors by now.
All the greedy jackasses built will now crumble and come to naught.
So sorry for all the good hardworking people.
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He's about to get schooled on the world's stage for the clown he is.
socialism over capitalism via auto subsidies. 👍
And the rubes are lapping it up. Sorry, Donnie, auto prices are still going to rise in 🇺🇸 due to tariffs and shortages.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2025/04/29/auto-parts-tariffs-donald-trump-michigan-visit/83342610007/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
Can't survive without the cheering crowd. Needs it like he needs oxygen.
And the automakers will slaughter him if he doesn't lift the tariffs by closing US plants because they can't afford to produce with US labor costs and expensive steel and aluminum.
I did not vote for him.
Charming.
A pack demented howling morons.
What a 🤡
He only did a rally to make up for the low polls
the continued political rallies, as president, are simultaneously (a) so manipulative, (b) so unseemly, (c) so embarrassing as an american to have other relatively sane democracies seeing this, (d) so maddening to know this is a message the attendees believe.
le sigh.
Art of the Deal negotiations before our very eyes.
Y'all know how many trade wars end up as shooting wars?
Pearl Harbor was a trade war.
https://www.hoover.org/research/when-trade-wars-become-shooting-wars
The whole thing seems like a complicated mess that is not going to work out for the automakers in the way they hope.
WTF??
Ok, so he hasn't read the definition of stable.
The only thing 'firmly fixed' about Trump is his stupidity.
Machinery, Nuclear Reactors, Boilers: $551.95 billion
Vehicles (Other Than Railway, Tramway): $150.24 billion
Plastics: $143.53
Articles of Iron or Steel: $110.31 billion Organic Chemicals: $101.89 billionChina makes everything so rich get richer!
But even then, he's an incompetent clown and the automakers are taking this assuming he will die or be ousted before it matters again. Automakers sell MILLIONS of cars to Canada, for instance, and dipshit here demolished that.
I knew he could do it.
Sorry 25% is a massive increase of $6,000 to $12,000 per car.
Looks like auto market stocks don't like this Trump improv horsetrading bullshit speech either..
He remains the bigliest failure of a president ever in history…twice‼️
How does he get a pass for standing for everything and nothing?
This simpleton thinks 90 days would be plenty of time to completely change a very complicated supply chain
Trump is a petty, emotional, narcissistic man-child. Would you make a deal with him? I wouldn't. Can't be trusted. No honour.
Not including picking the site, blueprint drawing, environmental surveys, etc. 1/2018 they announced the plant. 9/2022 we started production.
It's not a quick build unless you deaft the Engineering Corps help.
'Slaughter American businesses' or
Onshore all manufacturing or
Establish deals for foreign trade (possibly including foreign governments paying tariffs)
JFC. Other governments aren't even talking to Conald. And, here's awesome - threatening to invade allies!
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Thinks the world isn't on to him, his recreant rollover Republicans and in the dark dumbass donors by now.
All the greedy jackasses built will now crumble and come to naught.
So sorry for all the good hardworking people.
Has anyone in the Trump administration been able to articulate what their demands are?