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In reply to the discussion: Trump Orders American Companies to 'Start Looking for an Alternative to China' [View all]Judi Lynn
(160,515 posts)37. Guardian: 'I hereby order':Trump mocked for highly formal, meaningless decree
Trumps demand that US companies boycott China, which he doesnt have the power to enforce, inspired responses on Twitter
Luke O'Neil
@lukeoneil47
Fri 23 Aug 2019 14.39 EDT
Leaning further into a burgeoning economic war with China of his own design, Donald Trump on Friday levied a series of bizarre demands of American companies who do business in the country.
They included an order for American firms to cease production in China.
Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA.
The proclamation, which the president does not have the power to enforce, might have been expected to unleash a wave of panic and terror among Americas mostly capitalist citizenry such state-mandated orders are, after all, the stuff of planned-economy communist countries.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/23/trump-hereby-order-response-president-mocked-decree
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Trump Orders American Companies to 'Start Looking for an Alternative to China' [View all]
crazytown
Aug 2019
OP
Please don't drag Taj Mahal into it. tRump stole the name. The real Taj is a thing of beauty.
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2019
#21
Nowhere in this NY Times article does it note that Trump himself has all his branded clothing
Nay
Aug 2019
#3
just like the german industrialists stood up to hitler and staved off disaster.
Voltaire2
Aug 2019
#43
Prediction on a progressive talk show this morning, Pence & nikki haley are working behind the scene
yaesu
Aug 2019
#14
I wonder how many millions of dollars Trump's friends have made by him tipping them off before he...
WhoWoodaKnew
Aug 2019
#26
Now which country do you think Trump intends to have all these American companies
patphil
Aug 2019
#30
True, but we're talking about Trump here. The concepts of truth and logic are suspended.
patphil
Aug 2019
#52
Guardian: 'I hereby order':Trump mocked for highly formal, meaningless decree
Judi Lynn
Aug 2019
#37