Posted on 10/16/2025 5:48:50 PM PDT by CFW
Whirlpool CEO Marc Bitzer said President Donald Trump’s tariff policies have created a “level playing field” for expanding U.S. manufacturing and incentivizing companies to invest in domestic production.
“What the tariff policy does [is] it makes a business case, an economic business case, just much more attractive,” Bitzer told Fox News in an Oct. 15 interview.
His remarks came as Whirlpool announced a $300 million investment in its U.S. laundry manufacturing facilities, a move the company described as “one in a series of strategic commitments to grow its American manufacturing footprint.”
Bitzer told Fox News that without Trump’s tariff measures, the company might have reduced, delayed, or possibly reconsidered the investment. But now, he said, Whirlpool views the policy landscape as stable enough to justify long-term commitments.
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Expanding businesses will bring jobs for the working and middle class and that will be good for the economy.
Now if they could only make washing machines last more then three years.
“””Now if they could only make washing machines last more then three years.””””
Good luck with that.
I have a Whirlpool washer and dryer purchased off of craigslist 12 years ago. Late 80s models is my guess. I replaced the dryer heat element 2x. Simple. Built like tanks. Have a well so I don’t worry about water usage. I think of all the money I save not having to replace them with the newer disposable models.
No internet, no chips and buttons that go click. Stuff for old people, poor people and handicapped people who live by themselves.
You can still have your refrigerator that hooks up to your nitwit phone and shows you that you are out of oat milk and tofu but that is not what everyone desires.
Back then the Whirlpool brand was respected.
“I wish they would make a line of stuff that is basic.”
Same here. My husband has kept our old washing machine in good repair for years. No computer, no screens, just the old fashioned clickity-click dials. I dread the thought of buying a new one.
Speed Queen washers have always had an excellent reliability and longevity record.
Same
Clickety click.
Buy a Speed Queen Classic. They used some vintage loophole that let them evade a bunch of EPA regulations. Also it’s all buttons and knobs, analog, no computerized electronics. It’s same as a what’s in a laundromat. The coinbox is extra though.
My 5-year-old Whirlpool dishwasher is the best dishwasher that I’ve ever owned
SHOPLIFTING/RETAIL THEFT IS A LARGE PART OF COST OF GROCERIES
THEY TOTALLY DESTROYED MAYTAG AFTER THEY BOUGHT IT.
Whirlpool. That’s kitchen aid.
Mine is 7 and is rusting around the handle runs like a top otherwise.
Could you possibly say anything positive about the success of tariff?
They need to make a dishwasher that dries the dishes!
I realize this technology is more advanced than time travel.
Oh wait, they USED TO be able to do that.
Thank you, I'll look into it.
Sorry, I’m just pissed of at the 500 bucks Whirlpool just cost me.
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