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By REBECCA MORIN 06/28/2018 03:38 PM EDT
The presidents comments, which were made at a groundbreaking in Wisconsin for a Foxconn plant, were the latest attacks hes made on the motorcycle company after it announced it would move some of its manufacturing to Thailand to avoid expensive tariffs on bikes sold in the European Union.
The EU tariffs were in direct response to moves by Trump to hike steel and aluminum tariffs on European countries and others.
Harley Davidson, please build those beautiful motorcycles in the USA, please, OK? Dont get cute with us, he said. Dont get cute. They dont realize their taxes are coming way down, they don't realize that yet.
Build them in the USA, your customers wont be happy if you dont, he said.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/28/donald-trump-harley-davidson-dont-get-cute-682317
madaboutharry
(40,233 posts)Trump talks like a mob boss.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)backed by a traitor party.
Could you imagine any other president saying shit like this about a company?
anarch
(6,535 posts)which is what he is.
I keep thinking of the analogy where Emperor Dipshit thinks he is Tony Soprano, but really he's that guy who owned the sports store, who got way too far into debt in the "Executive" card game, and Tony's crew busted out his store. In this analogy, Putin would be Tony Soprano, Fuckface the hapless store-owner, and America itself is the sports store.
C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)Shame is something bad should befall it.
LenaBaby61
(6,979 posts)Damn bully.
Can't wait until Karma gets his ass. And it WILL.
Too bad that we all might be dead due to a nuclear war he'll probably start vs his buddy Kim Jong Un.
C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)Especially if that someone is Hells Angels or Mongol or Bandido or Outlaw or...
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Govt by thug.
VMA131Marine
(4,158 posts)Their new European customers will be much happier if they don't have to pay 25% more for the same bike.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)spanone
(135,900 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)as I have lived. It's like he has perfected the art of being the ultimate fucking dickhead.
spanone
(135,900 posts)he's a monger of hate and fear at the highest level I've ever seen.
imAllIn2016
(1 post)HD was already planning the move months ago. They are just using the tariffs as a cover. Most of the people that buy HD bikes in the US are dying or are too old to ride. They sell over 50% of their inventory overseas .. so its cheaper to build them over there.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)That is the root cause of Harley moving some production to Europe. If they build them there, they avoid th he tariff.
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LuckyLib
(6,821 posts)because he hasnt studied the economics of either tariffs or Harleys books or the aging US demographic, and wouldn bother sitting down with the company to learn about it. They were a photo op. Now moving past the pResident in making business decisions.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)Hardly. Why in the world would you think that?
ooky
(8,930 posts)Harley Davidson was planning on moving that production from Kansas City to York PA, until being hit with this tariff. Here's a link to the story when they made that announcement "months ago".
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2018/01/30/harley-davidson-kansas-city-plant-motorcycle-sales-fall/1078008001/
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)onethatcares
(16,192 posts)to line them up and shoot them ala Yeti coolers? FFS, it's the same anti murikan deal.
TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)Trump is Fredo
leanforward
(1,077 posts)Mr dRumpf leave the honor guard alone.
We need a gathering of bikes rolling around the WH and the National Mall sometime in the near future.
I've ridden in several and the guy in the WH needs to be impressed with an all day show of Harleys and any other bike rolling around the area. I mean a constant bike noise. My bike is quiet and if any loud pipe bike wants to ride along.
Drop the tariffs. Harleys are built in in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
He's made a big point of appealing to the Harley riders and the Corporation. The system of steel was not broke. He broke it.
How many bankruptcies has he been involved in? Six. Harley has/had a marketing/production system that was working around the world.
He is a one man wrecking crew. He needs to be "resigned".