It’s OK, Matt, you don’t have to tell us he’s a moron, we believe Rex Tillerson’s estimation anyway.
Note that the image is a fake tweet, it is captioned with the actual statement from the Harley Davidson CEO (because it’s a reaction to the tweet) and the first sentence is a play on the “moron” description made also by another Cabinet member (but omitted to allow for inference. Future attempts of this type will include sentence diagrams and semantic mapping ;-) /s
Not even a Wharton MBA graduate because status counts, Trump continues to dismantle economies near and far.
If nothing else, George W. Bush is an irony-producing machine. After all, the collapse of the American economy, perhaps the enduring legacy of Bush's tenure in the White House, was presided over by the man many once lauded as the nation's "first MBA President." Now with the Bush recession deepening into a crisis of historic proportions, "MBA President" has joined expressions like "mission to Mars", "weapons of mass destruction" and "we do not torture" among the cruel jokes of the Bush years.
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After the Wisconsin-based Harley-Davidson announced it would have no choice but to shift some production overseas in order to avoid raising the price of its bikes bound for the E.U. bloc, the president initially weighed in with some relatively mild criticism, describing the company’s decision as surrendering to the enemy. The next day, still stewing, Trump claimed to his followers that Harley had decided to move production abroad before the levies were imposed, and was using his “Tariffs/Trade War as an excuse,” which was, in fact, a lie. (In reality, the company’s decision to build a factory to supply markets in Southeast Asia was made on the basis of Trump’s decision to withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.) He followed that up by essentially threatening to put the company out of business—“If they move, watch, it will be the beginning of the end!”—and claiming “they will be taxed like never before,” even though there’s no indication Harley will import motorcycles to the U.S. from overseas plants. And he didn’t stop there!
It’s not totally clear what the president means when he says he’s done “so much for” Harley-Davidson, but that’s obviously beside the point. Stay tuned for later in the week, when Trump calls a press conference to burn a Harley motorcycle in effigy on the South Lawn of the White House, shouting “I warned you!” and “It didn’t have to be this way!” as the flames rise.
Trump, who posted a series of ill-informed tweets attacking Harley-Davidson for the move on Tuesday, seems to believe that the company should stay in the United States out of a sense of loyalty to him.
But as ThinkProgress has previously detailed, the trade war Trump declared by imposing tariffs on European steel motivated Harley to move production overseas for machines manufactured for European consumers.
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In order to entice Foxconn to open a manufacturing plant in the United States, the company received $3 billion in subsidies from Wisconsin taxpayers. Even under the rosiest projections, that comes out to $219,000 in subsidy per job.