Trump Attacks Another American Business

by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist

Two years ago as part of the Trump administration's ill-advised trade war on the world, Trump and his genius advisers implemented a series of tariffs on goods coming from the European Union, including EU steel.   Quite predictably the EU struck back quickly and imposed counter tariffs on several American exports, including Harley-Davidson motorcycles.  Harley-Davidson, being put in an uncomfortable (and unprofitable) position by Trump's know-nothing economic policies, then took the logical step of announcing that it would move some of it's production overseas to avoid paying the extra taxes on motorcycles bound for the European Union.

Donald Trump retaliated against the motorcycle manufacturer by goading the beer-guzzling, biker element of his base into the notion of boycotting Harley-Davidson - and then he took to Twitter to support the boycott that he was helping to engineer.  Trump had this to say in 268 characters or less:

"Many @harleydavidson owners plan to boycott the company if manufacturing moves overseas.  Great!  Most other companies are coming in our direction, including Harley competitors.  A really bad move!  U.S. will soon have a level playing field, or better."

The price of Harley-Davidson's stock fell sharply and never fully recovered after Trump's attack, and sales of its motorcycles have declined.

This week Trump again turned his ire on an American company after he saw a segment on Fox News which reported that the company, Goodyear Tire and Rubber, showed a training slide at its Topeka, Kansas, plant saying that Black Lives Matter and LGBT apparel were acceptable in the workplace, but that "political" matter such as Blue Lives Matter, All Lives Matter, and MAGA attire was not acceptable.

Goodyear responded later saying the visual training aid was not created or used by them, but by then Trump had already declared war on the American company.  He tweeted:

"Don't buy Goodyear Tires - They announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS.  Get better tires for far less!  (This is what the Radical Left Democrats do.  Two can play the same game, and we have to start playing it now!)"

News organizations were quick to point out that the armored White House limo, nicknamed "The Beast," runs on Goodyear tires, and Goodyear is the official tire of the US Secret Service.  They also noted that Goodyear is headquartered in Akron, Ohio, a state that Trump must win if he is to retain his free housing in Washington, DC, come this November.   The company has thousands of employees both in Ohio as well as across the United States.

And most MAGA hats are made in China.

Just sayin' . . .