Idiot: Trump Reportedly Called Germans Very Bad, Vowed To Stop German Car Sales In The U.S.

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During a meeting with top leaders of the European Union, President Donald Trump said “the Germans are bad, very bad,” according to participants in the room who spoke to German newspaper Der Spiegel.

Trump’s specific criticism was that Germany’s auto industry exported cars. “See the millions of cars they are selling in the U.S. Terrible,” Der Spiegel reports he said. “We will stop this.”

In January, Trump threatened to slap a 35 percent tax on German auto imports. “If you want to build cars in the world, then I wish you all the best. You can build cars for the United States, but for every car that comes to the USA, you will pay 35 percent tax,” he said. “I would tell BMW that if you are building a factory in Mexico and plan to sell cars to the USA, without a 35 percent tax, then you can forget that.”

Trump’s new comments impugning the Germans for exporting cars were made in a meeting with the European Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, and the European Council president, Donald Tusk. Juncker, Der Spiegel reports, supported the Germans.

Another German newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung, reported that E.U. representatives felt their U.S. counterparts did not understand that the E.U. negotiates trade agreements as a single entity, rather than on a country-to-country basis. That is, the U.S. can negotiate trade deals with the E.U. as a whole, but not individually with the separate members of the E.U.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-germans-very-bad_us_5927503be4b06f60805323dc?xda&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

[justiceischeap]

1. See all those German auto makers in the South

See them flee the USA. MAGA!!

[kimbutgar]

2. He's mad that all those people came out to hear Obama today in Berlin

He is fuming that all he would get were protesters if he appeared at the same venue.

[hedda_foil]

3. Horrifying. He understands nothing and cannot be permitted to do foreign anything.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Donnie the Stupid stikes again.

[wishstar]

5. Maybe he doesn't know that BMW has a factory in South Carolina-helping US economy

bmw has invested 8 billion at sc plant where over 8000 Americans are employed making cars

[rpannier]

15. VW in Tennessee

[A Brand New World]

6. My car was built in France so if he ever found that out,

I'm sure the French would be very, very bad too. What a loon!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. Somebody better tell Sean Spicer; he drives a BMW.

It's a sedan. I don't know if it's made in SC. I can't tell the new ones apart. It could be a 3-series.

[dalton99a]

8. Trump owned a 2003 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren and a 2015 Mercedes-Benz S600.

[FairWinds]

9. It also drives the US corporate globalists crazy . .

that German autoworkers are PAID TWICE AS MUCH as US worker-slaves.

From those radicals at Forbes -

"In 2010, Germany produced more than 5.5 million automobiles; the U.S produced 2.7 million. At the same time, the average auto worker in Germany made $67.14 per hour in salary in benefits; the average one in the U.S. made $33.77 per hour. Yet Germany's big three car companies—BMW, Daimler (Mercedes-Benz ), and Volkswagen—are very profitable."

Why, you ask?

Kevin Brown, quoted in Forbes - "the salient difference is that, in Germany, the automakers operate within an environment that precludes a race to the bottom; in the U.S., they operate within an environment that encourages such a race."

There is a better way, and its called social democracy.

[louis-t]

10. If I were running BMW, I would tell him

we are closing our factory in the US. Suck on that. Dumpy is an ignorant fuck.

[OldEurope]

11. To be fair:

He's not the only one to consider German exports overplus a problem.

Also, the Spiegel translates "bad" as evil or sinister ("böse&quot . I'd rather translate as ill-conceived or badly arranged ("schlecht&quot . So part of the problem Europeans might feel with Trump is just a problem of bad English (and for once not on his side!).

[klook]

12. Soon we'll be able to buy only Russian cars in the U.S.

"What's the difference between a Lada and a golf ball?"

"You can drive a golf ball 200 meters!"

[greymattermom]

13. Then does Donald hate the super bowl too?

which will be held at Mercedez-Benz stadium in 2019.
http://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-super-bowl-date-announced/yiA8SP0acoKpernbvjuivJ/

[Maraya1969]

16. So if he did slap a tax on, if he could, they could ban him from the place

That would be beautiful

[bigtree]

14. decades of nurturing that relationship

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