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Harley-Davidson should stay 100% in America, with the people that got you your success. Ive done so much for you, and then this. Other companies are coming back where they belong! We wont forget, and neither will your customers or your now very HAPPY competitors!
8:26 AM - 27 Jun 2018
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muntrv
(14,505 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)The news media would be up in arms but its Shitler so..........
Coventina
(27,172 posts)From what I understand, he HURT them!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,835 posts)Maybe he meant the corporate tax cuts - which won't help them if they can't sell their products. Other than that, he didn't do squat for them. And now they know it.
Solly Mack
(90,780 posts)SMH
Freethinker65
(10,048 posts)Trump should stay 100% out of the motorcycle business. We have done so much for you and the GOP by aligning our brand with your fake patriotism, and then you propose these tariffs to harm us. The Democratic Party is at least honest in what they tell voters. We will not forget, and neither will other voters that are now beginning to see the price of loyalty to a narcissistic self-enriching unqualified charlatan. VOTE Democratic!
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)TxVietVet
(1,905 posts)screws everyone and assumes people are appreciative. WTF!
GusBob
(7,286 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)A tweet claiming to include a quote from the motorcycle boss is spreading rapidly through the internet. It's entirely fake
By Mikey Smith Political Reporter
16:31, 27 JUN 2018
A Tweet claiming to quote the CEO of Harley Davidson calling Donald Trump a moron has been spreading rapidly online.
The message has been retweeted almost 18,000 times, and liked more than 34,000 times at the time of writing.
It claims motorcycle boss Matthew S Levatich had said: Our decision to move some of our operations is 100% based on President Trumps [sic] tariffs.
Mr. Trump knows nothing about economics and even less about trade. The man is a moron."
Harley Davidson CEO Matthew S Levatich says:
"Our decision to move some of our operations is 100% based on President Trumps tariffs. Mr. Trump knows nothing about economics and even less about trade. The man is a moron."
#MAGA @DailyCaller @realDonaldTrump @CNN @GOP
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By Alan Rappeport
June 27, 2018
President Trump has spent two days pummeling Harley-Davidson over its decision to move some production abroad, threatening to tax the motorcycle company and warning it would lose its American allure.
Then it appeared as though Harley-Davidsons chief executive was punching back with a quote disparaging Mr. Trump.
Except the quote was fake.
Harley-Davidson is suffering the fate of many of those who tangle with the president: Twitter trolls.
Its shameful we live in a time when people create fake quotes. Theres one attributed to me on Twitter. I have not, nor would I ever speak about the President of the United States or anyone else in that way.
- Matt Levatich, President and CEO, Harley-Davidson, Inc.
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BlueJac
(7,838 posts)lark
(23,155 posts)Harley has no real competitors, they have their own unique niche since Triumph quit making motorcycles. He has done nothing for no one or no company that isn't already mega-rich. And even if he gave them something (which he hasn't) taking it back plus more negates the original.
VMA131Marine
(4,149 posts)and Norton
http://www.nortonmotorcycles.com/
and Triumph still exists
https://www.triumphmotorcycles.com/
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)[link://www.npr.org/2018/06/26/623646557/harley-davidson-workers-react-to-news-of-shifting-some-production-overseas|
"Outside the plant, a small group of workers were smoking cigarettes yesterday. He's just trying to save American industry, one man said. Another said the president must have a good reason for doing battle against U.S. trading partners.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: I mean, he wouldn't do it for no reason. I look at him as a very smart businessman. And, I mean, if he feels that's what he needed to do, that's what he needed to do.
ZARROLI: And he said even if he loses his job at the plant, he should be able to find another one. The Milwaukee area is booming, which he credits to Trump. None of this surprises Charles Franklin, who directs the Marquette Law School Poll. Just like in other states, Trump's approval rating among working-class whites in Wisconsin is relatively high. And many of those Trump supporters like his trade policies."...
VMA131Marine
(4,149 posts)Even as all the evidence points to Trump not being a smart businessman, they insist he is. What it boils down to is that they wouldn't know a smart businessman if they saw one.
spanone
(135,871 posts)Johonny
(20,888 posts)Yesterday it was the Red Hen, today it's Harley-Davidson. Tomorrow it could be yours.