Politics ‘The Germans are bad, very bad’: Trump pledges to ‘stop’ German car sales to US

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    President Donald Trump is ready to fight Germany in an auto battle according to Germany’s Der Spiegel.

    Trump got a chilly reception at the NATO summit in Belgium after attacking fellow members. But he was caught pledging a battle with German automakers as part of his anger with “back dues” he feels the country owes to NATO. As CNN’s Jake Tapper noted Thursday, “Trump seems to think it’s like a country club.”

    In a discussion about the country’s trade surplus, Trump said. “The Germans are evil, very evil.”

    “Look at the millions of cars they sell in the US, and we’ll stop that,” sources told Der Spiegel.

    According to the report, EU Commissioner Jean-Claude Juncker took up for Germany explaining that “free trade is good for all.”

    According to a report from the “Süddeutsche Zeitung,” the EU allies were horrified by the willingness of the Americans to view global trade with such a lack of awareness. Trump’s economic consultant Gary Cohn was said to have chided German auto trade during a discussion between the US and Germany and the USA and Belgium. Trump had previously attacked them during another conversation.

    “I would say to BMW if they want to build a factory in Mexico and sell cars to the US without a 35 percent tax, they can forget that,” Trump said at the time.

    The report revealed that since that comment, there has been “a threat of a criminal tax” in the room.

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    "Jewy people buying German cars."

     
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    https://www.google.com/amp/amp.slat...ans_from_selling_so_many_cars_here_where.html

    Donald Trump had some tough words for the Germans at the NATO summit in Belgium on Thursday. “The Germans are bad, very bad,” he reportedly told Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Union. “Look at the millions of cars that they’re selling in the USA. Horrible. We’re gonna stop that.”

    It is certainly true that Germany runs a big trade surplus with the world and with the United States. (Last year, the U.S. trade deficit with Germany was nearly $65 billion.) But Trump can’t stop the German cars from coming in to the U.S. because, to a large degree, they’re already here. See, it turns out that many “foreign” cars are actually made in the U.S. while many “American” cars are made in Canada and Mexico. That’s how globalization works today.

    Over the past few decades, in an often-overlooked dynamic, Japanese, German, and Korean automakers have sought to combat protectionist sentiment and insulate themselves from currency gyrations by opening large production facilities in the U.S.—particularly in the union-averse South. IAMA , the trade group for Asian automakers in the U.S., said its members last year produced 4.6 million cars between them, equal to 40 percent of all U.S. vehicle production, at some 300 facilities.

    The German carmakers have been quite aggressive in building up their U.S. operations, too. In 1994, BMW opened a plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Having invested $7.8 billion in the plant, BMW now boasts that it is the company’s largest single facility in the world. And it has spurred investments by a range of suppliers throughout the state. The cars made in Spartanburg there include the EX3 and X5 Sports Activity Vehicle, and the X4 and X6 Sports Activity Coupe. Last year, Spartanburg produced a record 411,171 vehicles, about 34,000 per month. According to BMW, it sells about 26,000 cars per month in the U.S. Now, not all the cars BMW sells in the U.S. are made here. Some are shipped in from overseas. And many of the vehicles made in South Carolina—287,700 last year, or 70 percent—are exported to points around the world. The upshot: By exporting more finished vehicles from the United States than it imports to the United States, BMW may be helping to lower America’s trade deficit.
     
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    Trump tommorow: The Germans are great people, fantastic people...
     
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    No wonder German cars are such shit now
     
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    Fuck. Almost makes me want to buy a German car. But I'm happy with my Corolla (actually still think of it as my father's Corolla).

    God, the stupidity. The absolute utter stupidity.
     
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    Oh, for fuck's sake. He said the trade disparity was bad, not the German people.
     
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