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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 minutes ago

To any foreign entities, companies, individuals who haven’t caught on to the obvious truth: You are not safe here, your investments are not secure here, any visas, treaties, contracts are all 100% revocable despite any perception that they are legally binding. Do not come here. Despite the fact that there are good and rational people fighting to change this, the hard fact is that we are flaming out, and there is no telling what destruction and chaos is coming.

Just look at the destruction and chaos we perpetrated around the world when our society was at its height and our population had the most accommodating economic conditions in history.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 hour ago

At this point, I wouldn’t blame any company that immediately ceased expansions in America and started to consider moving existing production facilities to adjacent countries, like Canada.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 hour ago

Canada, on the other hand, would be happy to host a Hyundai plant once again.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago

TACO Don...

[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 2 points 52 minutes ago
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 17 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

He really has got porridge for brains. It amazes me he can manage simultaneous walking and talking.

Why on earth would foreign companies want to invest in the US right now? He is the one that's making it less likely, there was plenty of foreign investment in the US under previous administrations then this moron came along and ruined it all.

[–] Paddzr@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

Trump walks? I only ever see him behind something hiding how fat he is.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 16 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

He chickened out again?
Pfft, a proper real man and leader would've gone down to that concentration camp and punched each one of those Koreans himself!!!

[–] hunnybubny@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 hours ago

And then visited their parents. Popped in for a tea. Made some small talk.

And theeen spat in their mothers face. And fuck their fathers in the ass.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 62 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

When Foreign Companies who are building extremely complex products, machines, and various other 'things,' come into the United States with massive Investments, I want them to bring their people of expertise for a period of time to teach and train our people how to make these very unique and complex products, as they phase out of our Country, and back into their land," the president posted on Truth Social, adding “I don’t want to frighten off or disincentivize Investment into America by outside Countries or Companies. We welcome them, we welcome their employees, and we are willing to proudly say we will learn from them.”

You know what's missing there?

An apology.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 hour ago

When has Trump use a word as big as disincentivize in the last 15 years? His media representative needs to up their game.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

he did not write that.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 26 points 7 hours ago

You know what's missing there?

The unredacted Epstein list!

[–] trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Also several inappropriately capitalized letters. Trump didn't write this.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 3 hours ago

He can't write anything. The stroke rendered his right hand unusable, and he's probably permanently loopy, more than usual. It's "Weekend at Bernie's: The White House Years."

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 3 hours ago

Well yeah, it stayed on topic the whole way through

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 7 points 10 hours ago
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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

trump, apologizing never. Like most right winger, they give a typical corporate apology, a non-apology or they deflect the attention on an percieved enemy.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 26 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Y'all acting like Trump personally ordered the raid and is suddenly backing up, TACO.

Trump told ICE, "You're weapons free, you got a quota." And they went for it. Because of course they did.

This is Trump screaming, "Not like THAT!" Which is somehow hilarious and horrifying at the same time.

[–] SeriousMite@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

A competent leader would apologize on behalf of the United States, whether it was his fault or not.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 3 hours ago

The idiot leader was too stupid to provide contingencies. And the ICE goons are too stupid to understand them anyway.

[–] Railing5132@lemmy.world 19 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Well, the desk in the oval office used to have a simple plaque on it that said: "the buck stops here".

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 18 points 12 hours ago

Mother was a narcissist, not on Trump's level, but I've never known another person so eat up with NPD. Impossible to overstate that these people cannot understand personal responsibility for their actions. Their failures are always someones else's failures. They cannot fail.

I was well into my 40s before it occurred to me, mother never once admitted fault or said she was sorry. Sure, some people act like that, sometimes, but you can tell they have a sense of guilt, a sense of wrongdoing. Sure, we've all know people who misdirect blame. A true narcissist cannot feel those emotions, cannot be wrong.

Telling a lie is a falsehood you know is false. Trump has never lied. He believes every word that has ever come out of his mouth. It tears my brain apart every time he's accused of lying or bending the truth. Anyone having a hard time with the notion I just described is suffering cognitive dissonance. Have fun with that, he can't feel it. You can because you're sane.

Trump isn't playing games. He isn't a tactical or strategic genius. He's simply a wealthy narcissist who struck political gold. He got dumb luck, like some of us do, and ran with it.

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[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 69 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Divest from America! Shrink their economy!

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 32 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Statesian here. I fully support this. Some people don't learn unless it hurts.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 6 points 2 hours ago

I'm sorry that you get hurt by this too.
Seriously, the rest of the world:

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[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 216 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Yup they won’t be coming back and why on earth would they do anything else with them in the future.

[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 68 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

"We're acting exactly like Nazis in Nazi Germany and I just don't understand why no one wants to do business with us!"

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 hours ago

To be fair, lots of companies wanted to do business with the Nazis. Most businesses now don't have an issue with Trump being a fascist, but that it's unpredictable. That's bad for business.

[–] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 24 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Also the guy from Ireland who had his subdermal piercings involuntarily cut out without anesthetic.

[–] indomara@lemmy.world 15 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 9 hours ago

Ice also abducted all of the adults out of a minivan, leaving two small children behind, who had to be rescued from the heat by bystanders.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 13 hours ago

If we’re going off history, it’s bad news because fucking EVERYBODY still did business with the Nazis.

[–] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 31 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Holy $&#+ that's horrible.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 133 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Trump backs off

The damage is already done. He got to stuff hundreds of Korean workers in one of his torture prisons while extorting the company and the country for their release. He's not backing off. He's pulling his fist back for another swing. Fucking headline journalists are too "TACO" pilled to see the next blow coming.

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[–] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 100 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Hyundai already announced a two to three month delay on this plant after this whole thing. They aren't walking away, but this isn't an event they are forgetting.

It won't matter what President comes after this one, this whole thing is going to influence investment from South Korea for some time.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

if i were korea, i would just cut my losses and build in another country, like mexico and canada. or build it in a blue states, but foreign companies love the lack of labor protections in red states

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 100 points 19 hours ago (8 children)

If you were a foreign company considering investing a substantial amount of money to build a plant in the U.S., and then the unstable authoritarian dictator of that country pulls a stunt like this, you're going to reconsider putting any more capital at risk.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 12 hours ago

An unstable authoritarian dictator who, as way of a supposed apology, has literally told you that he's going to do it again as soon as he's stolen your technology, with the stated intention of putting you and your whole country out of business.

Only reasonable course of action seems to write the factory down as a loss and never set foot in the USA again.

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[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 176 points 21 hours ago (10 children)

He’s an incompetent child rapist

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago
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