Trump says he 'couldn't care less' if automakers raise prices due to tariffs and believes it'll make people buy American
Source: NBC
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The president said he “couldn’t care less” if foreign automakers raised prices after he announced he would impose 25% tariffs on all foreign-made automobiles.
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When pressed if he told CEOs not to raise prices, as reported in the 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. We have plenty.”
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The president also said the tariffs would be permanent.
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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-couldnt-care-less-automakers-raise-prices-tariffs-rcna198731
I'll believe the WSJ over Trump any day.
The article also has Trump saying he won't be firing anyone over Signalgate, which he called fake news and a witchhunt.
And he said he's "100%" going to get Greenland. See this post in GD: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220189071
The full headline was slightly too long to fit:
Trump says he ‘couldn’t care less’ if automakers raise prices due to tariffs and believes it’ll make people buy American-made cars
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The very stable genius proffering the well-known economic theory that people buy more when the price goes up.
In any case, the story is written very poorly. It first discusses foreign automakers raising prices, then it addresses whether Trump told US automakers not to raise prices, as the WSJ reported. Then it is thoroughly unclear about which group he is referring to when he says "I hope they raise their prices, because if they do, people are gonna buy American-made cars." One hopes he is talking about the foreign automakers here, as that would at least make sense, but the article is ambiguous on that point.
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After the interview, an aide to the president followed up with NBC News to say that Trump was referring specifically to foreign car prices.
They laid off 600 of them starting July 15th. Many of them haven’t prepared for this. They ain’t got two nickels to rub together (as my dad would say), but they’re sure this is some kinda stroke of genius on orangey’s part. My husband is laid back as hell, but he can’t stand to discuss his coworkers cluelessness with me, because it pisses him off. It’s a cult of morons.The steel mill in Canada who also laid off 600 people, told their workers it’s on account of the tariffs, but Cliffs told their workers here that it wasn’t about tariffs. 
and got busted with a 34 fraud case and convicted ..............and why do people go to that fucking tower in NY and give him money to take away their rights...............
expensive???
Ya think?
You know, as capitalists would do ??
