Trump Rips General Motors Over Factory Closure Plans: 'This Is the THANKS We Get' for Saving You!

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediate



by Ken Meyer | Nov 27th, 2018, 2:36 pm

President Donad Trump is threatening to cut subsidies for General Motors following their announcement that they will layoff thousands of workers around the U.S in the coming months.

In a pair of tweets posted while Sarah Huckabee Sanders conducted the White House’s press briefing on Tuesday afternoon, the president slammed GM for announcing that they will close down factories in Ohio, Michigan and Maryland.

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[Achilleaze]

1. republican corporation disappoints republican draft dodger-in-chief

How perfectly republican

[Roy Rolling]

26. Nope, Trump

An extraordinary president like Obama and taxpayers saved General Motors. Trump is neither.

[TheBlackAdder]

34. Wait! Was Trump even for the bailout. I thought he was one of those Gubmint Motors people.

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What does he mean by "We?"

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[Bleacher Creature]

2. Obama saved GM. NT

[louis c]

8. The Republicans, including Romney, wanted GM to go bankrupt

Obama saved GM is absolutely correct

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

30. GOP senators from Alabama and Georgia wanted them to go bankrupt, too...

... there were others, too, where Mercedes and BMW, off the top of my head, put in their factories.

[workinclasszero]

16. Republicans taking credit for Obama actions

I’m sure every news outlet in America will correct the lyin sack of shit in charge.

Sadly that was

[Blue_Tires]

23. Like Donnie would give the black man credit for anything, ever..

[Botany]

3. 'This Is the THANKS We Get'

What is this "we" Kemosabe? Obama saved GM and you complained about it too.

[Guppy]

20. Hello masked man

one of Lenny Bruce's best.

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. From American workers:

Stop helping us!

[Dave Starsky]

5. Our President is actively torpedoing a massive US corporation.

One of the few that actually produces things in this country for sale elsewhere.

Is there an historic precedent for this? I don't think there is. I seem to recall that ALL prior Presidents tried to help American business.

[mastermind]

24. repugs always target the US auto industry

as a means to destroy labor unions. They have been destroying unions for decades.

[onenote]

6. Trump on GM Bailout: "You could have let it go and rebuilt itself through the free enterprise system

"You could have let it go bankrupt, frankly, and rebuilt itself. And a lot of people think that's the way it should have happened.

Or you could have done it the way it went. I could have done it either way. Either way would have been acceptable. I think you would have ended up ultimately in the same place.



Donald Trump in 2015.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/12/donald-trump-gave-a-press-conference-on-tuesday-in-michigan-i-annotated-it/

[workinclasszero]

17. You busted the liar in chief!

[allgood33]

7. "What do you mean, 'we', white man?"

[DFW]

9. Took the words right out of my mouth

Obama saved GM over howling Republican objections. To make the Republicans even more furious, GM paid the government back and Uncle Sam even made s modest profit on the deal.

The only "we" here is the "oui" that GM's French-speaking workers said in 2009 when they found out their jobs weren't going to vanish that year. Republicans were nowhere to be seen--as usual when daring moves are needed to save something.

[Canoe52]

39. From family member who is GM management, "GM paid the government back with other government money

GM had received, not from GM earnings.

[DFW]

41. I don't doubt subsidy money was the bulk of it if not all

But if it was money GM had coming to it anyway, then they still managed. If they did some funny stuff with money they would not have received otherwise, then the payback was indeed a sham.

[Canoe52]

42. I don't know the details, He's a hanity, o'really loving right winger.

But he was really pissed at GM at the time about it.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. +1

[RandiFan1290]

11. Go fuck yourself, Don. nt

[Javaman]

12. saved from what? all his "winning"? nt

[Politicub]

13. Obama saved the American auto industry only for

Trump to come in and destroy it.

The dem-led House can't be ushered in soon enough.

[workinclasszero]

18. Yep

Compare and contrast, Trump voting ex auto workers.

[pecosbob]

14. He's right, but for the wrong reason

Trump's only pissed at GM because they're making him look like a dipshit. He cares no more for American workers' jobs than Mitt Romney. From my perspective GM's no better than any of the other huge corporate social parasites. Corporations have no conscience and therefore never should be considered to be responsible members of the community.

[SeattleVet]

15. There is lso a plant being shuttered in Oshawa, Ontario.

Someone suggested that maybe Canada should just go ahead and nationalize that one, and then invite Toyota, Nissan, or Subaru to move production from a tRump state to Canada.

[nclib]

19. Tariffs have consequences.

Guess Trump didn't see that one coming.

[MineralMan]

21. They do, like lots of things.

Messing with things that have tradition behind them is never a great idea, I think.

[Firestorm49]

22. Typical Republican Double Talk

Screw the workers, then, with eyes wide open, tell them you saved them. The ultimate irony regurgitated daily by Republicans and this sham of a president. Hey, soybeans anyone? How about some Wisconsin corn or milk? Wisconsin’s farmers are in dire trouble. Food is rotting and milk is being poured in the fields. Hey, what about General Motors? - only following Ford’s lead from last year. You’ve got to love those working man tariffs. Every time I see some idiot wearing a MAGA hat I nearly puke. This country is being decimated by an idiot and people still follow along like lambs to the slaughter.

[muntrv]

25. But...but...the Trump tax cuts create jobs bigly!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

27. OBAMA saved the Auto Industry, not you Fuck Face!!!!

What a ARROGANT PRICK Donald Trump is. Can he stoop any lower?

[doc03]

28. The Republicans were against the auto bailout you f----g moron. I remember the Teabaggers

calling GM Government Motors.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

31. +1...

... they love their foreign auto makers in The South.

[benld74]

29. tRump just credited #44 with something!!

[MineralMan]

32. Like nothing even happened, Don?

Really?

[MineralMan]

33. I'm sure Bernie would fight to keep GM profitable, right?

Its a good corporation, right?

[KatyaR]

35. How long until he starts talking sexist trash about Mary Barra?

You know he's gonna do it.

[truthisfreedom]

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[mathematic]

37. Thanks Obama.

No, really! One of the most important things he did was the successful bailout of american auto.

It sucks that trump's trade policies are putting the squeeze on GM and making the low margin car business unprofitable. Also, GM doesn't get any subsidies that its competitors don't also get. Heck, GM would probably secretly love seeing the EV credit go away. That would kill their most dangerous future competitor, Tesla.

[hexola]

38. Possibly the first documented use of the word "we" by Trump!

Stunning!

[GulfCoast66]

40. Oh, it the Royal We usage. No doubt.

The irony is that GM is taking this action, responding early to market pressure, to insure they do not find themselves back where they were in 2009.

The other irony is that a good part of the market pressure they are responding to are trumps actions.

[duforsure]

43. More in this industry will flee

trump and his tariffs and threats against them. HE wants absolute control over them and what they do, and know he'll be shaking them down soon for campaign contributions , which they funnel into their pockets . We're heading towards what russia has where putin controls it all with the most corrupt few over businesses under putin for him to skim the profits for himself with.

[Maxheader]

44. Obama helped GM

With the tarp payments..The orange haired traitor passed out
tax breaks..Which the 1%ers...despite all their b.s. talk, never
actually do the trickle down..

[Blue_Tires]

45. It's pathetic to see Donnie make threats like a cheap mafia goon...