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Fri Dec 2, 2016, 08:41 PM Dec 2016

Trump Warns That Companies Shipping Jobs Overseas Will Be Slapped with Enormous Bribes

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—President-elect Donald J. Trump drew a line in the sand on Friday as he warned that U.S. companies planning to ship jobs overseas will be slapped with enormous bribes.

“If you think you’re going to get away with sending jobs out of the U.S., think again,” Trump said. “You are about to be bribed, big league.”

He raised the cautionary example of Carrier Corporation, which this week decided to keep a few hundred jobs in the U.S. in exchange for a seven-million-dollar government incentive. “I warned those boys at Carrier: we can do this the easy way, or the hard way, where you get seven million dollars,” he said. “They backed down so fast—it was terrific.”

The President-elect said that the Carrier story should strike fear into the hearts of all American businesses that might be contemplating shipping jobs overseas. “Do you really want to wind up like Carrier, with seven million dollars in your pockets?” he asked. “I don’t think so.”

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Trump Warns That Companies Shipping Jobs Overseas Will Be Slapped with Enormous Bribes (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2016 OP
Love borowitz. . pbmus Dec 2016 #1
If I threaten to leave, maybe he'll Ilsa Dec 2016 #2
How much could California get by threatening to secede? rzemanfl Dec 2016 #3
haaaaaa!!! That's great! nt Ilsa Dec 2016 #4
He gives the best bribes! Nobody gives better bribes than he does! Initech Dec 2016 #5
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