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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.”
Imagine spending four years plotting and scheming about how you’ll do everything better next time, and this is what you come up with.
I’m convinced he just has a vendetta against the American system. He’s been raised with the connotation that America is out to get him. Failed businesses, failed casinos, failed non-profits. NO! It’s the system that’s fucked up, not ME! A tyrannical dumbass that can’t accept failure and realize his own issues. He instead blames it on everyone else. Well guess what, he’s in charge and going to game the system in his favor now, or take it down trying.