Trump ORDERS US companies to look for alternatives to China

[brooklynite]

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[Sanity Claws]

1. Ordered?

Oh my. He has become a despot. He thinks he can order companies to do things because he put it in a tweet.

[SummerSnow]

28. Remember, he's the Chosen one and he alone can fix it. He'll be blaming Obama is 3 seconds.

[dalton99a]

2. O Chosen One, keep talking

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

3. Sorry idiot $99,000 4 cylinder cars won't sell

The stable genius

[spanone]

4. Well, the 'Chosen One' has decreed!!!!!

out of his fucking mind.

[dhill926]

5. Oh just fuck Anus Orange...

so sick of this shit...

[JCMach1]

6. I agree on decoupling our economy from dictatorships

However, tariffs are a pretty bad way to do it...

I am old enough to still be pissed that George Bush Senior pushed economic engagement/coupling of the US economy after Tienanmen Square and then all the Presidents after essentially continued that policy despite the human rights record.

[mobeau69]

29. Before you go to war it's a good idea to get some allies on board with the effort.

Of course he's pissed off all of our allies.

[JCMach1]

35. His approach is assinine

[Wellstone ruled]

7. And the Bond Market just

started to teeter.

So the Recession is now turning into a Depression forecast. Folks have to realize it takes three to five years to build a typical Foundry Based Production Plant. And a full 18 months to build out a Assembly Plant.

When China bought our Manufacturing Companies years ago,they sent in crews to disassembly them and ship them back and reassembly them in China in order to speed up the Build out process.

[Hoyt]

8. Economic aspects are bad enough, but this is kind of junk that leads to bombs, cyber warfare, etc.

[lapislzi]

9. OBO my American employer who imports products from China:

No.

[Girard442]

10. We're looking, Donnie.

Betcha we’ll find something any day now. We’ll let you know.

[Beringia]

11. OMG, I might be like a trumper

I like the idea of stopping trade with China. They are horrible on human rights and animal rights and you know they have little children with tiny fingers putting together so many products.

[still_one]

17. Absolutely inane idea. Those are some of the factors that led to the great depression

What will happen is the U.S. will isolate itself from the rest of the world, and isolationism is NOT a good policy

Any thought about those rare earth minerals?

Have you ever been to China, and are you aware of what West did to Asia?

Read about the Boxer rebellion as just one example

[Beringia]

18. People boycott countries

and stores and people all the time. How else do you send your message to change or else. Don't you ever get sick of seeing made in China or made in Japan on everything you buy?

As for the Boxer rebellion, good for China for kicking out imperialists. What does that have to do with cheap products today?

[lame54]

20. Trump wants that useless crap made here...

And to be cost efficient he will strip away ALL regulations
China is our dumping ground
All that trash/waste/pollution will now be here

[still_one]

22. Also India

[GulfCoast66]

21. Yeah, people boycott all kinds of things...

A very small number of people. Most people are happy to get the best deal on the merchandise they buy. Which is why buying things from other countries does not bother me at all. If I spend halve to price on a pair of dungarees that leaves me more money to buy more products, some of which may be domestically produced.

[still_one]

24. Exactly. You negotiate, you don't tweet. It is give and take on both sides, not my way or the

highway

[Beringia]

32. That kind of thinking is what leads to outsourcing

of jobs and loss of jobs to other countries. We should try to keep jobs in the US and pay what an item is worth. I bought a huge ream of notebook paper at Target the other day for like 50 cents and it must be worth 5 dollars. People are getting hurt from that kind of practice, workers and forests.

How would you like your job to be outsourced or your pay cut in half?

[GulfCoast66]

34. Unlike protectionist, I realize we live in a changing world.

Your expressed opinion is exactly what Trump and also left wing nationalist are pushing. That economies are closed systems denying the realities of a global economy.

The problem was not outsourcing but the continual loss of power by unions and the continued shredding of the safety net.

Everyone longing for the days when we were the manufacturing behemoth for get one simple fact. After WWII we were the only large manufacturing power. Once Japan and Europe got back in the game our days of domination were over.

[still_one]

23. No, that isn't what the Boxer Rebellian was about. It was about the west's demand for products from

China, but China did not have the same demand for the products from the West. So the West in their great wisdom decides to push Opium into China, and effectively became a drug pusher. Of course there were more particulars, but it is the same thing

You don't cut your nose off to spite your face. You don't think China buys products from China? They buy everything from farm products to automobiles.

In fact right now there is a major beef shortage going on there, we are not able to take advantage of it because of this trade war

Trade wars have Never been good

The only thing that Carter's boycott of wheat did to Russia is hurt our farmers because other countries were only to glad to take over that business.

Same thing will happen here

It is not a simple situation, that is solved by protectionism or trade wars, history time and again has demonstrated those are disasters.

[madaboutharry]

12. "Are hereby ordered..."

King Donald needs a psychiatric intervention.

Bringing manufacturing back to the US is a complicated process. It doesn’t happen because Trump gave an order.

[Enoki33]

13. Completely befuddled how 36% of people fail to see tRump for the human

aberration he is as he is continually plumbing new depths of incompetency, lunacy and wannabe despotic behavior. It has got to be either deliberate ignorance or all consuming racism, and it is going to take a hell of a long time to change such attitudes.

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. Fuck. Him. He is a lunatic.

Get the SOB out of our lives now.

[still_one]

15. Does the idiot know that China owns China owned $1.11 trillion of U.S. debt, U.S. Treasuries?

[SummerSnow]

27. China calling in the debt in 5 ...4...3...2

[still_one]

30. I don't think they will do that since they are making money on the interest, much better than the

current interest rates, but if they did, it would be a disaster

If the U.S. stopped all trade with China, I have no doubt that other countries would not, and we would be hurt very badly.

One doesn't cut their nose off to spite their face, unless you are someone who has had multiple bankruptcies, and sits in the WH

They really need to consider the 24th amendment

[SidDithers]

16. Does that include your own companies, Orange Skull?...

And Ivanka’s?

Sid

[ElementaryPenguin]

19. "Hereby ORDERED..." WTF?? Oh what a dumb fuck he truly is!

And we're worried about defeating this self-destructing moron?!!

Let's just concentrate on impeaching him - and keeping him from cheating and stealing another election.

[still_one]

25. ask the man who has multiple bankrupcies

[Stuart G]

26. He's Nuts...!!!!!

[Freethinker65]

31. Market has tanked. Trump will somehow try to declare a victory and rescind his Hereby ordered threat

But I do not think many will fall for this BS again. He is too fucking stupid and unstable. GOP owns this fucker.

The GOP might allow Trump to be able to ignore some constitutional laws and ethical standards but they, and everyone else knows, Trump cannot hereby order much of anything nongovernmental.
The curtain on the "Chosen One" was lifted long ago. Trump is an unstable fraud.

[MineralMan]

33. Ban Chinese Auto Components and Parts!

There's a fast way to shut down US car manufacturers. But Trump doesn't know that. Nope.

https://www.autonews.com/article/20181105/GLOBAL03/181109971/china-s-industry-has-arrived-in-america

[budkin]

36. MAGAAAAAAAAAA

Good God.