"Kelley Blue Book says Trump’s tariffs could raise the U.S. price of the average new car – already approaching $49,000 – by $3,000 or more. The price of some full-size pickup trucks could shoot up by $10,000."
Hope Trump's MAGA cult likes walking or bicycling.
Almost 2 million workers in auto manufacturing and 1.25 million in the auto sales industry. At least half of those people will lose their jobs. So much winning, #47.
You know, since both Trump and Vance are Russian assets, the US Congress could impeach and remove them and save the Republic.
Unless of course most Republicans, like Lindsay Graham, are also compromised.
Now the Felon47 has authorized cutting forests that will harm ecosystems and endangered species. I'm afraid we will soon read about clearcutting ancient redwoods for short term corporate profit.
...And the rest. People are now deliberately trying to avoid buying American products. The effect of this will not be immediate - but it will filter through in the next few weeks, and especially, months and years.
How many different things are going to be a casualty to needless trade wars, I ask? And with our allies, no less. It's like shooting ourselves in the foot before a race for all its forethought or recklessness.
“If Trump goes ahead with 25% taxes on imports from Canada and Mexico on Tuesday, he will disrupt more than $300 billion in annual U.S. automotive trade with its two neighbors, wreck supply chains that have been operating for decades and likely push up the already-forbidding price of new cars.”
My son is a Canadian Ford technician/apprentice mechanic. He told me the company thinks it would take more than a decade for the USA to ramp up internal manufacturing to be able to make cars and trucks without Canada and Mexico.
And the housing industry and the health industry and the educational industry and the building industry and the roofing industry and the manufacturing by small business industry. To name a few.
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Hope Trump's MAGA cult likes walking or bicycling.
Unless of course most Republicans, like Lindsay Graham, are also compromised.
Y’all have been fucking up for years
Remember when Trump pulled the CDC out of Wuhan RIGHT before COVID?
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/exclusive-us-slashed-cdc-staff-inside-china-prior-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21C3NE/
Now he's trying to hit us with another plague while starting wars to crash the economy so billionaires can buy everything.