{"id":136662,"date":"2018-06-01T08:37:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T14:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136662"},"modified":"2018-06-03T13:46:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T19:46:28","slug":"trump-wants-to-ban-luxury-german-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/01\/trump-wants-to-ban-luxury-german-cars.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump wants to ban German luxury cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

I would love to figure out if this is driven more by some vague sense that the US luxury auto market needs protection, or because Angela Merkel hasn’t been sufficiently fawning to him. His reported comment that he doesn’t want to see a single Mercedes or BMW driving down Fifth Avenue, unfortunately, doesn’t give us a clue to anything but his daftness.<\/p>\n

As the article notes, both BMW and Mercedes-Benz have plants inside the United States<\/i> (in South Carolina). Will those plants be shut down by the US, or by a retaliatory measure from the Germans? How will those<\/i> voters act in November?<\/p>\n

Trump’s escalating trade wars with, apparently, everyone,<\/i> may or may not succeed in proving that the US economy is still number one, but regardless the cost in US jobs, and in US consumer price increases, will be staggering.<\/p>\n


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\nPresident Trump wants to impose a total ban on the imports of German luxury cars, according to a new report from<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I would love to figure out if this is driven more by some vague sense that the US luxury auto market needs protection, or because Angela Merkel hasn’t been sufficiently fawning to him. His reported comment that he doesn’t want to see a single Mercedes or BMW driving down Fifth Avenue, unfortunately, doesn’t give us … Continue reading “Trump wants to ban German luxury cars”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,5,77,10,1071],"tags":[1474,1077],"class_list":["post-136662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-cars","category-economy","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-trump","tag-trade-war","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/trump-merkel.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133561,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/28\/those-cars-the-darned-germans-sell-us-are-largely-made-here-in-the-us.html","url_meta":{"origin":136662,"position":0},"title":"Those cars the darned Germans sell us … are largely made here in the US","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 28-May-17 12:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"See, here's how globalism works, Donald, particularly in the auto industry: cars get built in a lot of places, and sold in a lot of places, and those places don't necessarily have much to do with where the cars are actually sold. 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