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MaddowBlog-Trump says he 'couldn't care less' if some automakers raise prices due to tariffs
As a candidate, Trump said he’d lower prices “on day one.” As a president, he’s now saying he “couldn’t care less” if some automakers raise prices.
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Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-says-couldnt-care-less-automakers-raise-prices-due-tariffs-rcna198832
Two days after the Journal’s report reached the public, the president spoke to NBC News about this and other issues, and he denied the accuracy of the account — or at least tried to.
Trump continued, “I couldn’t care less. I hope they raise their prices, because if they do, people are gonna buy American-made cars.”.....
With this in mind, if the president assumes that U.S. companies are on board with his approach, there’s evidence to the contrary. In fact, it was just last month when Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley spoke at a conference and said the Trump administration’s trade policies were generating “a lot of chaos“ for the industry.
As part of the same remarks, the Ford executive also warned that some of the White House’s plans for trade tariffs would be “devastating” to auto manufacturers and “blow a hole in the U.S. industry that we’ve never seen.”
It might seem like ancient history, but it was just last year when Trump told voters, “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down starting on day one.” This is not a cherry-picked quote that he accidentally blurted out once and then quickly forgot. On the contrary, the then-candidate repeated the line over and over again as Election Day approached, assuring Americans that he’d help lower prices immediately after returning to the White House.
It’s hard not to wonder how voters who believed his promises feel after hearing Trump say he “couldn’t care less” if some automakers raise prices.
The president said he “couldn’t care less” if automakers raised prices after he announced he would impose 25% tariffs on all foreign-made automobiles. When pressed if he told CEOs not to raise prices, as reported in the Wall Street Journal, Trump added, “No, I never said that. I couldn’t care less if they raise prices, because people are going to start buying American-made cars.”
Trump continued, “I couldn’t care less. I hope they raise their prices, because if they do, people are gonna buy American-made cars.”.....
With this in mind, if the president assumes that U.S. companies are on board with his approach, there’s evidence to the contrary. In fact, it was just last month when Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley spoke at a conference and said the Trump administration’s trade policies were generating “a lot of chaos“ for the industry.
As part of the same remarks, the Ford executive also warned that some of the White House’s plans for trade tariffs would be “devastating” to auto manufacturers and “blow a hole in the U.S. industry that we’ve never seen.”
It might seem like ancient history, but it was just last year when Trump told voters, “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down starting on day one.” This is not a cherry-picked quote that he accidentally blurted out once and then quickly forgot. On the contrary, the then-candidate repeated the line over and over again as Election Day approached, assuring Americans that he’d help lower prices immediately after returning to the White House.
It’s hard not to wonder how voters who believed his promises feel after hearing Trump say he “couldn’t care less” if some automakers raise prices.