Donald Trump has threatened to place a 100 percent tariff on Barbie maker Mattel, after the company’s CEO said it would continue to manufacture outside the U.S. but would be reducing its reliance on Chinese imports.
“I’ve heard [Mattel] said: ‘Well we’re going to go counter, we’re going to try going someplace else,’” Trump said in the Oval Office on Thursday. “That’s OK, let him go, and we’ll put a 100 percent tariff on his toys, and he won’t sell one toy in the United States, and that’s their biggest market.”
In an interview with CNBC on Tuesday, Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz was asked whether it would be cheaper to relocate some manufacturing to the U.S. due to the tariffs, but responded: “We don’t see that happening.”
And the bigly brained free market capitalists in his party will cheer while he targets a corporation for engaging in free market capitalism.
I’m old enough to remember when a group of people this collectively deluded were kept in asylums.
DO IT!
Meanwhile, there will be a surge of GI Joe figures
Oh fuck off Trump
HAVE THE DAY YOU VOTED FOR
This is how winning is done.
Does that mean we’re great again?
My question is: how is he going to succeed if he’s pissing of his base? (not the MAGA crowd, the billionaires)
This is what billionaires are paying him to do.
First it was 30 dolls. Then it was 2 dolls. Now it’s 0 dolls. HOW MANY DOLLS WILL IT BE NEXT WEEK???!? WHO KNOWS!!
He’ll be Nixon from Futurama.
“I’ll sell our children’s organs to zoos for meat, and I’ll go into people’s houses at night and wreck up the place.”
-4 dolls. All patriotic Americans are required to surrender 4 dolls immediately for processing and export to Central America
First it was slapping tariffs on penguins. Now we’ve entered the “War on Dolls” stage of the Trump administration.
I wish I was joking.
I hate this timeline.
What do Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig say?
It’s because of the stupid 30 doll example he gave, so he’s doing this to back it up. Big brain dementia Donnie.
As someone who manufactures stuff, I can attest that we’re almost all looking at other countries, not standing up US manufacturing.
Standing up manufacturing in the US takes too long and costs too much for us to do when we’re going into a recession.
Now, a power move from Matel would be to not increase the price after a tariff, and take the loss, or make some sort of “Tariff Barbie” to teach kids about their wonderful president.
they won’t do either of those things though, theyre just going to take the punch and roll.
The EU has a larger population than the US, it might be worth investing in that market
A plague on both their plastic dreamhouses
