Donald Trump may have balked at disavowing the KKK, but he sure took a stand against Oreos last August after the cookie maker’s parent company decided to move some operations from Chicago to Mexico.
"I'm never eating Oreos again," Trump said, adding that he would consider it if he could find some that were made in the US.
That's right—Oreos ... worse than David Duke and the KKK. That's how strongly Trump feels about companies outsourcing American jobs. Finally, a principled stand by Trump. Ha! Or just another opportunistic declaration, reports Russ Choma.
A decade ago, before Trump was a politician, he had a much different view on outsourcing: It was often a good thing, he said. In 2005, Trump wrote a blog post on outsourcing that appeared on the website of his now defunct Trump University (which is the subject of a civil suit alleging fraud). The blog post was headlined, "Outsourcing Creates Jobs in the Long Run." In it, Trump advised workers who lost their jobs to adopt a longer view and consider how outsourcing could be good for the overall economy. He wrote:
We hear terrible things about outsourcing jobs—how sending work outside of our companies is contributing to the demise of American businesses. But in this instance I have to take the unpopular stance that it is not always a terrible thing.
Trump urged that we "look at the bigger picture," which included his assertion that sometimes finding cheaper labor outside the U.S. was a company's "only means of survival. He also argued that outsourcing "actually creates more jobs and increases wages, at least for IT workers."
Good news, Trump! You can jump back on that Oreo bandwagon.