He thought he'd pound his tiny fist and demand to make a deal and all would work out--"I'll run the country like a business!"--said no successful President ever.

The details don't matter as much so long as he gets to sign his enormous pointy signature and hold it up and beam at an adoring crowd like he won.

Nobody on his side asking the question.

When you don't know anything about anything.
When you don't understand anything which you do supposedly know.
When you don't do your homework.
When you don't read.
When you don't listen to experts.
When you choose sycophants to pretend to be experts.
When you don't even listen to the sycophants.
When you "go with your gut."

AND moving production locations overseas. A double win for the company.

This is a clear example of tax cuts NOT helping our economy or increasing American jobs.

This is just a fact. Even an idiot deplorable should be able to understand it. Only increased business results in increased jobs. Not a tax cut. In fact, if a tax cut results in budget cuts, it could DECREASE a business's business, because budget cuts will result in layoffs, decreased expendable income, and closings of small businesses....all money that would go to INCREASE THE BUSINESS of the company that got the big tax cut.

enough to figure out the consequences of any decision he has ever made.

"We will put tariffs on Harley-Davidson, on bourbon and on blue jeans — Levi's,” European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on German television, according to Reuters. Trump's announcement has drawn condemnation across the globe, with several countries threatening retaliation if he imposes the duties. "We would like a reasonable relationship to the United States, but we cannot simply put our head in the sand," Juncker said.

The products listed by Juncker appeared to target industries based in the home states of congressional leaders. Harley-Davidson is based in Wisconsin, the home state of Speaker Paul Ryan (R); Levi Strauss & Co. is headquartered in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's (D) hometown of San Francisco; and bourbon is made in Kentucky, the home state of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R).

Juncker did not make it clear if he listed those particular companies and industries because of their locations within lawmakers' home states. According to Reuters, the EU is weighing potential 25 percent tariffs on $3.5 billion worth of goods to "rebalance" trade with the U.S.

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland also warned on Thursday that Ottawa would take "responsive measures" against the U.S. if Washington imposed tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum exports to the U.S. Roberto Azevêdo, the director-general of the World Trade Organization, expressed concern on Friday about the possibility of a trade war stemming from Trump's proposed tariffs. “A trade war is in no one’s interests," he said. "The WTO will be watching the situation very closely."

http://thehill.com/regulation/international/376467-eu-weighs-tariffs-on-bourbon-blue-jeans-harley-davidson

Large and loud. I understand why they hit Harley with tariffs.

They've maxed out that demographic - and they aren't making any more people like that.

All the retired guys who "always wanted a Harley" - have one.

That market segment was always very retro and about image - and many, rode lightly.

Lots of hardly-ridden bikes out there.

I doubt you needed a Tariff to push Harley out - they might just benefit from a new Euro-High-Tech image.

Totally incompetent... at well, pretty much everything besides his compulsive self-felation

"Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had." - Prof. William T. Kelley, Penn

Demonstrates more business and economics knowledge than Donald Trump.

Update at 11.

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Not like there's any sort of, well, you know, historical precedent (Hawley Smoot), for what this sort of "economic activity" creates. Harley Davidson wants to stay afloat for a long time; they've either got to severely constrict their business to a strictly U.S. market or put some of their plants abroad to sell to those markets without adding punitive export costs due to Mr. Stable Genius and his Business Genius policies.
And both survival plans require that U.S. plants are going to be shuttered and U.S. workforce is going to be laid off.

F'n financially, ethically and mentally bankrupt Idiot and his "Get Rich Quick Financial Product Guru" advisors.

Haele

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Trump surprised that water is wet.