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"Try building your cars in the United States instead of shipping them over, Trump said at an event with Japanese business executives, according to a pool report.
That's not rude? he added.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/358894-trump-to-japan-build-cars-in-the-us-instead-of-shipping-them-over
Trump has no clue that three out of every four Japanese brand cars sold in North America were manufactured on the continent, none whatsoever
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)world wide wally
(21,762 posts)pstokely
(10,541 posts)because that's what their daddies drove
Greywing
(1,124 posts)He's absolutely clueless ... Just so stupid, it's unbelievable.
joshcryer
(62,287 posts)And a few weeks from now he can tweet "Japan making cars in America! I said they should! MAGA!"
Dem2
(8,168 posts)Of all the times I've used such an expression, it's never fit so perfectly until now.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)JI7
(89,289 posts)Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)he will be discussing, he use the time to troll about nonsense on twitter, he's a total fuckup.
I don't know anyone wouldn't have fired him already if he was reporting to them .
Journeyman
(15,044 posts)then demand a quid pro quo in exchange for bringing production over here -- tax breaks, or environmental regulations relaxed-- and the Dotard will be only too happy to reward them for doing what they were doing all along.
Senility, and just run-of-the-mill stupidity, provides a lot of opportunities to those who know how to capitalize on it.
ecstatic
(32,798 posts)Impeach!!!!!
sakabatou
(42,204 posts)LonePirate
(13,446 posts)Link to tweet
FACT: Toyota's Georgetown, KY plant is its largest in the world. It employs 8,000--more than the total # of coal miners left in that state.
Stuart G
(38,458 posts)TOYOTA CAMRYS ...of which I have had two...are built in...KENTUCKY...here is a link:
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, Inc. (TMMK) is an automobile manufacturing factory in Georgetown, Kentucky, USA. It is part of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America (TEMA), owned by Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan.
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Motor_Manufacturing_Kentucky
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dalton99a
(81,708 posts)dalton99a
(81,708 posts)greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)And thought I must be hearing things.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,485 posts)He takes that as a challenge
Docreed2003
(16,905 posts)Clearly those American plants are just a ploy...
flotsam
(3,268 posts)But if you are going to sell so much bullshit here we insist hire more cows here....
Canoe52
(2,949 posts)had been trolled, then I clicked on the link...
Actually Im still not convinced we havent been trolled, that statement is beyond ignorant.