Posted on 01/16/2017 11:26:16 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
It's Germany's turn to feel the heat after President-elect Donald Trump turned his ire on the country's automakers, its supposed dominance of the European Union, and the failings of Chancellor Angela Merkel's refugee policy.
In a weekend interview given jointly to Germany's biggest tabloid, Bild-Zeitung, and (somewhat incongruously), the august Times of London, Trump repeated for the first time as President-elect pretty much what he had said a thousand times as candidate last year. It's as if Europe either hadn't been listening or, more likely, had simply been hoping he would take a different tone as President.
As far as business is concerned, the most alarming part of Trump's interview was a threat of import duties (already familiar to U.S. ears) that sent a chill through German auto stocks: BMW lost 1.3%, Daimler the maker of Mercedes-Benz cars and Freightliner trucks lost 1.4%, while Volkswagen lost 1.9%. The three rely on the U.S. market for about 20% of their global sales and, probably, a bit less of their profits.
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They will reelect her and they have destroyed Germany and Europe. Not the first time for these German idiots.
The US should move all military forces from Germany, to Poland. Poland would be happy to receive our forces. Cut all aid to Germany!!
He’s not allowed to say what he thinks. Only leftists and and muzzies can do that.
Good...if they want to build autos in Mexico, pay the tariff, or build a factory in the USA.
Merkel Uber Alles!
That’s a good idea.
“Germany is bristling” German chicks don’t shave, one of the reasons for WWII.
Got to love Germany, the father of socialism, lecturing us on trade.
The old Germany has always been there...hiding away...except now they might become Russia’s bitch in the future.
Awesome idea. Another idea. Open the border wide for all Germans, willing to work, and say pay a bond, to immigrate to the US. And let those persecuted under Nazi law that cannot home school refugee status. Their best and brightest will leave and leave Germany as a hole in the ground.
“BMW has spent big bucks building and expanding their facilities in South Carolina.”
And Mercedes builds vehicles in Alabama, and VW Group build cars in Tennessee
Fortune
not a credible source
Fortune is part of the propaganda cabal
Well, I guess they're going to have to build even more plants in the US.
Misleading headline. Germany is NOT Bristling over anything. It is the skank now running the country and her lickspittle supporters who are wetting their panties because PE Trump is refusing to condone to the madness of these leftist Muzzie appeasers.
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