General Motors responds to Donald Trump tweet about Chevy Cruze production

[kpete]

So Trump attacks an American carmaker who manufactures the very model he attacks, in OHIO. Ohio, people.

http://www.kswo.com/story/34170493/trumps-latest-us-corporate-twitter-target-general-motors


JUST IN : GM says Chevy Cruze, which Trump earlier criticized for being "Mexican made" & sold "tax free across border", is made in Ohio.
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[Initech]

1. Is there anything that he doesn't lie about?

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Sure-- the stuff he knows shit about but tweets anyway...

Technically, it's not a lie if you're simply ignorant.

But, it could be argued that stupidity and ignorance are far more dangerous than lying on purpose.

[LittleGirl]

16. I don't think it's a lie as much as pure ignorance. eom

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. What an asshole.

That's all there is to say.

[Seedersandleechers]

35. My cats are assholes

but they don't lie.

[gordianot]

4. Trump is constantly confused where things are made.

Obama, his Presidency, Ted Cruise, his wife's speech at the convention, why would anyone expect him to know where a specific car is made?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. You were right the other night about the people who saddled us with this clown.

The hate for us and America which went into that decision is unfathomable.

[PearliePoo2]

5. Yes, and just like his attack on other companies, GM stock is now down on the market.

hmmm....I wonder if anyone tends to profit by these predictable market losses after dumb-shit publicly trashes them?

[FrankfurtCat]

8. He is like a wrecking ball.

[Eugene]

10. But at the end of this, Trump and his surrogates will claim he saved jobs in the Lordstown plant.

Just watch.

[sdfernando]

30. So cheeto hombre

has taken to manipulating the stock market...just short some positions and send out a tweet...who cares of its true or not. Captain Carotene needs to make $$$. Fuck everyone else!

[world wide wally]

7. I guess those Ohio voters sure showed Obama and Hillary!

Oooops

[gratuitous]

28. My feeling exactly

Proud of your vote, Ohio? These lies are what we were warning you about. Now they're being turned on you for Trump's personal convenience. How does it feel?

[progressoid]

37. I'm not sure facts really matter to Trump voters.

[Eugene]

9. Facts schmacts. Never let the truth stop you from making a threat on Twitter.

This buffoon is going to get us into a war just like this.

[NewJeffCT]

17. Part of the problem is

that Trump thinks whatever the last thing that came out of his mouth or his tweets is the truth. It doesn't matter if it's a complete 180 from what he believed a week or a day or an hour ago.

[NWCorona]

11. Only 2.4% of that production line are made in Mexico and sold here.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. I think what we have in Trump is the classic victim of right-wing propaganda news.

We're in luck because he has no filters, no where to hide. It all comes out in the tweets. If you can embarrass and correct Trump with "real" news and facts, you might have a chance to do the same to the right-wing news consumer.

[Johonny]

15. +1

[Wounded Bear]

18. Problem is his supporters....

they've been trained to filter out annoying facts and figures and petty shit like that. They won't trust anything in the M$M.

Trick will be to keep the real media on his ass about this. His hardcore supporters won't flip, but anybody who went Trump as a protest vote might start to notice.

[Baitball Blogger]

22. Then we take this elephant down, one bite at a time.

I think, that in my lifetime, I will never see this country come together. It's all about winning the high ground with the truth. And once we get that high ground, we need to have leaders who will stop being nice and complacent with the nuts on the other side of the aisle.

[NewJeffCT]

20. I've said this a bunch of times over the past month

we don't need to win over every Trump voter out there - if 1 or 2 Trump voters out of 100 had flipped in key precincts, it would have been an electoral landslide for Clinton.

[Baitball Blogger]

23. Sounds like we have a plan. A lot depends on the media.

We'll probably have to pressure them to stay on point, even when the eventual false flag presents itself to attempt to distract them. And you know it will come.

[Wounded Bear]

24. Agreed...

we can't forget social media too. I've blocked a lot of folks pimping Trump memes. I try to type out more answers now.

[Danmel]

14. My daughter just bought a Chevy Cruze

It is a really nice car!

[ffr]

19. What a bonehead move! Brilliant there dRumpf!

[ehrnst]

21. First, Hawaii was in Kenya, now Ohio is in Mexico. (nt)

[dbackjon]

25. And yet, I bet a good deal of the workers in Ohio and their families voted for Traitor Trump

[James48]

26. Trump is correct in this:

It is the HATCHBACK model, which began U.S. sales in October 2016, which is made in Mexico.

The standard Cruze is made in Lordstown, Ohio, but the Hatchback model, which has been around for several years outside the U.S. - is just now beginning to flow into the U. S. market with deliveries that began in October 2106. And all those Hatchbacks are coming duty free from Mexico, thanks to NAFTA.

- I'm a Michigander who keeps track and only buys U.S. built (final assembly) cars.

I can't buy a hatchback for NAFTA allergy reasons.

[Elmergantry]

31. lordstown plant has recently terminated the third shift

Due to drop in orders resulting in job losses. Too bad the hatchback couldnt be made there.

[James48]

29. NO-

FORD is cancelling a NEW proposed Mexican plant that WAS going to be built.

That has no relation to GM.

[aggiesal]

32. I've always said the first party to go after our trade deals ...

will win elections for a very long time.

I'm no fan of Herr Gropenfuhrer, but if he goes after our trade deals,
and the rest of the republicans support him, the R's will hold congress
for a very long time.
We all know that the rest of the R's won't support him and that's good
for us Dems, otherwise we'd be in serious hurt.

Now, does Chevy make the Cruze in Mexico? [Font color=red]YES[/font]
Does Chevy sell Cruze's built in Mexico in the U.S.? [Font color=red]YES[/font]
Does Chevy sell Mexican made Cruze's in U.S. tax free?
[Font color=red]Don't know, but I'd believe this is correct, because GM's statement
did not refute this claim. (A non-denial denial)[/font]

GM builds the Chevrolet Cruze hatchback for global markets in
Mexico, with a small number sold in the U.S."

Where did Herr Gropenfuhrer lie?
I don't believe he did and the Democrats better support going after these unfair
trade deals, or it will be a long time till Dems are in control of congress.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

33. Does Cruz sound like a Mexican name to him?

The only thing I can figure

[orleans]

34. come on, don't make liberals side with or defend trump

read the 3rd line of the gm response you posted

trump said "mexican made model" and gm says they DO make the hatchback model of that car in mexico.

another poster (a few upthread) added that the hatchbacks that gm brings into the us from mexico ARE NOT paying a border tax to bring them in

how is trump wrong on this one? can't we stick to shit he's REALLY wrong about? i mean, there is just so much of that

[lark]

36. Ignorant, drug addled, criminal narcissist.

Just wish everything he said wasn't a lie. No one can figure him out because he lies constantly and about everything. The only thing we know for sure, he only cares about himself and his $$, nothing else gets through the dense wasteland of his so called brain.

[MurrayDelph]

38. What I want to know

is if someone in his office (or circle) is shorting stocks just before he Tweets about the company.