Trump Rips General Motors Over Factory Closure Plans: 'This Is the THANKS We Get' for Saving You!
Source: Mediate
by Ken Meyer | Nov 27th, 2018, 2:36 pm
President Donad Trump is threatening to cut subsidies for General Motors following their announcement that they will layoff thousands of workers around the U.S in the coming months.
In a pair of tweets posted while Sarah Huckabee Sanders conducted the White Houses press briefing on Tuesday afternoon, the president slammed GM for announcing that they will close down factories in Ohio, Michigan and Maryland.
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Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)How perfectly republican
Roy Rolling
(6,906 posts)An extraordinary president like Obama and taxpayers saved General Motors. Trump is neither.
TheBlackAdder
(28,163 posts).
What does he mean by "We?"
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Bleacher Creature
(11,250 posts)louis c
(8,652 posts)Obama saved GM is absolutely correct
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,075 posts)... there were others, too, where Mercedes and BMW, off the top of my head, put in their factories.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Im sure every news outlet in America will correct the lyin sack of shit in charge.
Sadly that was
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Botany
(70,442 posts)What is this "we" Kemosabe? Obama saved GM and you complained about it too.
Guppy
(444 posts)one of Lenny Bruce's best.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Stop helping us!
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)One of the few that actually produces things in this country for sale elsewhere.
Is there an historic precedent for this? I don't think there is. I seem to recall that ALL prior Presidents tried to help American business.
mastermind
(229 posts)as a means to destroy labor unions. They have been destroying unions for decades.
onenote
(42,531 posts)"You could have let it go bankrupt, frankly, and rebuilt itself. And a lot of people think that's the way it should have happened.
Or you could have done it the way it went. I could have done it either way. Either way would have been acceptable. I think you would have ended up ultimately in the same place.
Donald Trump in 2015.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/12/donald-trump-gave-a-press-conference-on-tuesday-in-michigan-i-annotated-it/
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)allgood33
(1,584 posts)DFW
(54,269 posts)Obama saved GM over howling Republican objections. To make the Republicans even more furious, GM paid the government back and Uncle Sam even made s modest profit on the deal.
The only "we" here is the "oui" that GM's French-speaking workers said in 2009 when they found out their jobs weren't going to vanish that year. Republicans were nowhere to be seen--as usual when daring moves are needed to save something.
Canoe52
(2,948 posts)GM had received, not from GM earnings.
DFW
(54,269 posts)But if it was money GM had coming to it anyway, then they still managed. If they did some funny stuff with money they would not have received otherwise, then the payback was indeed a sham.
Canoe52
(2,948 posts)But he was really pissed at GM at the time about it.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,817 posts)RandiFan1290
(6,221 posts)Javaman
(62,497 posts)Politicub
(12,165 posts)Trump to come in and destroy it.
The dem-led House can't be ushered in soon enough.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Compare and contrast, Trump voting ex auto workers.
pecosbob
(7,533 posts)Trump's only pissed at GM because they're making him look like a dipshit. He cares no more for American workers' jobs than Mitt Romney. From my perspective GM's no better than any of the other huge corporate social parasites. Corporations have no conscience and therefore never should be considered to be responsible members of the community.
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)Someone suggested that maybe Canada should just go ahead and nationalize that one, and then invite Toyota, Nissan, or Subaru to move production from a tRump state to Canada.
nclib
(1,013 posts)Guess Trump didn't see that one coming.
MineralMan
(146,248 posts)Messing with things that have tradition behind them is never a great idea, I think.
Firestorm49
(4,028 posts)Screw the workers, then, with eyes wide open, tell them you saved them. The ultimate irony regurgitated daily by Republicans and this sham of a president. Hey, soybeans anyone? How about some Wisconsin corn or milk? Wisconsins farmers are in dire trouble. Food is rotting and milk is being poured in the fields. Hey, what about General Motors? - only following Fords lead from last year. Youve got to love those working man tariffs. Every time I see some idiot wearing a MAGA hat I nearly puke. This country is being decimated by an idiot and people still follow along like lambs to the slaughter.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,701 posts)What a ARROGANT PRICK Donald Trump is. Can he stoop any lower?
doc03
(35,293 posts)calling GM Government Motors.
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,075 posts)... they love their foreign auto makers in The South.
benld74
(9,901 posts)MineralMan
(146,248 posts)Really?
MineralMan
(146,248 posts)Its a good corporation, right?
KatyaR
(3,445 posts)You know he's gonna do it.
truthisfreedom
(23,138 posts)Tariffs tariffs tariffs tariffs tariffs tariffs tariffs tariffs
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mathematic
(1,431 posts)No, really! One of the most important things he did was the successful bailout of american auto.
It sucks that trump's trade policies are putting the squeeze on GM and making the low margin car business unprofitable. Also, GM doesn't get any subsidies that its competitors don't also get. Heck, GM would probably secretly love seeing the EV credit go away. That would kill their most dangerous future competitor, Tesla.
hexola
(4,835 posts)Stunning!
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)The irony is that GM is taking this action, responding early to market pressure, to insure they do not find themselves back where they were in 2009.
The other irony is that a good part of the market pressure they are responding to are trumps actions.
duforsure
(11,884 posts)trump and his tariffs and threats against them. HE wants absolute control over them and what they do, and know he'll be shaking them down soon for campaign contributions , which they funnel into their pockets . We're heading towards what russia has where putin controls it all with the most corrupt few over businesses under putin for him to skim the profits for himself with.
Maxheader
(4,370 posts)With the tarp payments..The orange haired traitor passed out
tax breaks..Which the 1%ers...despite all their b.s. talk, never
actually do the trickle down..