WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said on Friday he was ordering U.S. companies to look at ways to close their operations in China and make more of their products in the United States instead, a rhetorical strike at Beijing as trade tensions mounted.
The U.S. dollar rose sharply against the Chinese yuan, U.S. stock markets fell and oil prices dropped on Trump’s latest salvo against China. American companies could also sue the U.S. government in response to any order to shutter plants in China. The most effective option for Trump would be to restrict federal procurement from any companies that do business in China.
“We can’t be a market economy and do that,” Reinsch said. “No one’s going to pay attention to it anyway. Companies do what they’re going to do.”
Witch hunt
So who’s going to manufacture your cheap looking red barometer ties?
Lol. Nobody is working for $3 an hour here bud
What is he Hitler ordering US companies where they can do business?
A mind just like the desk in front of him; empty!
So that’s how capitalism works. I get it now.
Trump is delusional and out of control
Who does the world need more? A nation that is attempting multiple regime changes, sponsoring terrorism, committing what are acts of war daily or a nation that is building major infrastructure projects world wide?
Can someone tell the dimwit that he can't order U.S. companies to do a damn thing. realdonaldtrump potus needs to read the Constitution and then needs to learn how to comprehend what it says. FakePresident issues a fake decree.
Let’s assume that a US Corp. shuts down its ISO Certified manufacturing plants in Wuxi & Shenzhen & ships back its equipment & restart their old US plants. Every Mfg. & QA process will have to recertified prior to shipping any finished parts to customers. Time: 12-20 weeks 1/2
What does he expect?You start a hostile trade war with China China will retaliate with tariffs of their own.Globalised world now proper constructive negotiations would have been better
Ordering no, advising yes!
He’s doing an amazing job of bankrupting the US! Somehow I knew he could do it!
Yes sir mister god
Trump should take his time to think it thru, consult his trusted advisers before tweeting or announcing words that affects the entire world. It seems like he does not. No Good.
realDonaldTrump is a fool, an embarrassing fool. I regret voting for him
tRump: Iherebyorder a great, wonderful popeyeschickensandwich.......... Voice over speaker: Umm........Sir, This is a bank drive thru!
Except his and his family's clothing line of course.
I guess tariff wars aren't as easy to win after all
The US Democratic does not have to surrender China(3) Has the Japanese people been told what China really is? That's the only country that can play with China!Has Taiwan been prevented from surrendering to China? Did you know that americans' health is being ruined by China?
“Ordering” companies? This from The King of Disorderly Behavior.
Close operations in China, open shop in Russia.
Prices for US consumers will definitely go up then. Whether through tariffs or operating locally, average working Americans lose! Gee thanks POTUS
ordering! ordering? just who t f does he think he is? oh right! the chosen one. really, really f scary.
Not those greedy bastards
Is he really that stupid,yes he is. As example in my country one worker cost the same as 4 Chinese workers, really a good idea to bring jobs back.... mission impossible. Your president is one narcastic mental patient, and a liar🇸🇪
25AmendmentNow
Yes, a president 'ordering' companies to do something is definitely not fascist, no way.
he is so shortsighted i’m surprised he can pick his nose
This ignorant nobody is ruining our economy and making enemies from old diplomatic agreements and friends. He will leave the US of A in a depression
Give them a BIG incentive to come home.
Is the Trump family going to close theirs?
He's not allowed to order them to do anything, he's not a damn King 🤮🤮🤬🤬🤬
Many people are saying he’s about to issue an executive order banning the Constitution
Mr. Trump business owner..we the US govt order you to stop selling your condos to the Chinese...Mr. Trump..”f~ off!”
You can't really order any companies to do anything, that's not how democracy and capitalism works, you should know this POTUS
The idiot has no clue of the implications and damage his effin ego causes worldwide . How is he still POTUS , it’s mind boggling
I bet that long tie and XXL jacket is made in China
Is he going to start with the MAGA hats?
Can he order private companies to do things?
What an absolute fool it is very sad for America that this dottering old man is in the Oval
No good will come of this.
Even if he personally felt that way, why air those opinions so publicly for the world to hear and react? He touts himself as an expert negotiator but isn't one of the most fundamental negotiating rules to avoid letting the other party get the upper hand?
Anyway ther completely insane comment.
realDonaldTrump POTUS gop WhiteHouse PressSec KellyannePolls senatemajldr maybe Trump needs to have his companies have their goods made in USA.
Nice try at an attempt to make Trump sound sane.
tRump: I am ordering a great, wonderful popeyeschickensandwich.......... Voice over speaker: Ummm.....Sir, this is a bank!
Ordering? Where are we? China, Russia, Iran? 🤨
Oh, so now the bitch embraces socialism? Hahah Ihearbyorder
An order that he has absolutely no authority to make or enforce against private business entities
The Joker-In-Chief?
India is a US ally. Friendly country, largest demicracy, home to 1,3 bn people...thats a great replacement to China. ....centre should shift from Beijing to New Delhi...
Because you need to suffer for his incompetence.
Buy Vietnam
What a Prat?
Ordering ? This guy was a business man ?
Well, the stock market says that backfired, bigly.
Does that include the Trump companies in China, like those for Ivanka's trashy clothes or Trump Escorts, a prostitution company?
a 'rhetorical strike' do you actually think he meant it as rhetorical?
Because HE'S the leading authority on 'successful business'? 🤨
As he wore a Trump neck tie. Made in China.
No, he “hereby orders” them to do so, via tweet 😂
Orders.
Achtung! Shouldn’t his nibs screed be addressed at Walmart? HomeDepot?
'I started a fight I have no idea how to win so all of you need to help me.'
Is he & his daughter closing theirs?
What happened to free market and capitalism? Dictatorship!
Not pressing just tweting the reality! Companies are already moving ops from PROC!
What!!, authority does this deranged idiot!!, to dictate to otherwise profitable global businesses!!
Walmart was pressing companies to move their production to China. Walmart to president! Corporations also people!
...and with that, every company in the U.S responded, in unison, 'yeah sure Donnie we'll get right on that.'
Trump is a terrorist president in the world
Then what about IvankaTrump china business realDonaldTrump
Move them to Mexico
Lincoln🙏
Made in the USA 🇺🇸
Why don't we send Trump to China instead? It might do him good to work one day in his entire life.
What is Ivanka doing?
No. Not presses US companies regarding China. An order delivered via tweet. An order that immediately impacted the stock market. An order directing independent business. An order from the oval. An order again displaying the accelerating unhinged dangerous unraveling. Unchecked.
Art of the fail
He didn't 'press' US companies, the 'chosen one' 'hereby demanded' US companies. The moron is insane & he needs removed from our White House. He also called the Chairman of the Fed, that he appointed, & the President of China his enemies. CooCoo
He can’t be that stupid! Just about every clothes item the average American wears come from China. And that’s only a start.
WE SHOULD GIVE THEM 40% TAX BREAK TILL THEY SETTLE THEIR OPERATIONS IN OTHER EASTERN COUNTRIES.
As an alternative to may be engaged therewith,India may prove most appropriate destination of Industrial globalisation to may be expanded to serve d world within a suitable proximity to china already to have developed and ready to enter in phase 2 of globalization at world over.
Abe is not smiling.
Мания величия у господина президента. Фотографируется только на фоне Авраама Линкольна. Федот, да не тот.
He has nothing to press with. He twitted imaginary orders.
Road to ruin!
呵呵，我太富，无所谓
Yes chosen one.!
Did he order Ivanka to return her Chinese patents/trademarks
ey aja.
“Hereby order”
: and do what? To relocate to Africa at less cost and tax,that will be interesting. As relocating to U.S will be devastenly costly
barbaraward235 Will his crappy MAGA gear be made somewhere else?
How stupid can you be to suggest that we close ourselves off from the second largest market in the world and the fastest growing one. Fastest way to a recession and high unemployment.
He will be elected out
And then they laughed and laughed at him.
'Presses'? You are being kind to Trump. He 'hereby order' ed them. 25thAmendment
What if the product can’t be made in US and sold at a competive price? And I wonder what Trump is going to do about AI and automation. Automation threatening 25% of jobs in the US, especially the 'boring and repetitive' ones: Brookings study
7:50 ПП · 23 авг. 2019 г. ФАК ОФФ
iherebyorder that Reuters consider that they are incredibly incompetent for going with this headline
A bully and a moron - In meltdown and having a tantrum when given a dose of his own medicine! Quick learners, the Chinese....
Does this 'chosen' inept clown even know how his, let alone the global economy, functions?
Hahahahahaha yeah, sure Donald. What about all the cheap Trump crap you peddle?
Oh dear why are US Citizens unaware that Trump prefers a downtrodden population such as Russia, North Korea & China whose he admirers do much over democracies it a mystery😱
here are millions of chance now for European, Japanese and Korean companies to take US's market share in China, the maket of 1.4billion people
realDonaldTrump gop GOPChairwoman KellyannePolls GOPLeader SenateGOP HouseGOP does this include IvankaTrump or is this foreign policy rift in the interest of family’s businesses
& do it by Christmas.
He didn't 'press' he 'ordered' like the tinpot dictator he is.
trump:' listen to me , respect me, i am the chosen one.'
Orders .... I hereby ORDER !
iherebyorder the men in the white jackets to come get their patient and lock him back up. He's in dire need of a mental health evaluation.
Just such a DUH boy-I’m thinking his next plan will be to file bankruptcy like he did for the majority of his business ventures
Trump voter, however not in favor of this. Not cool .. shouldn't be this involved in our economics. No longer a free market.
🤣😂🤣 They’ll just wait it out until 2020 when your ousted by the Democrats. Democrats are always cleaning up Republicans messes
If you look closely you can see the tear forming in Lincoln's eye.
but i just got the new 1+, you gotta be kidding me, dangit,
No, he “hereby ordered” them. 🤡
He ordered them. The lunatic thinks he can order US businesses to do things.
:)
Any word on ALL TRUMP PRODUCTS
So much for that 'free market' that republicans like to spout.
Presses?
Stop making it sound normal. It was a iherebyorder from the POTUS.
'Presses' and 'orders' are two totally different things. The president does not have the authority to dictate to private businesses how they can operate.
“Presses” Apparently you didn’t read his tweet.
Mussolini wannabe.
Except for Ivanka, I'm sure
finally, something I agree with!
So, all of the products at Trump Tower will be manufactured here now? Cause we saw made in China all over his Trump brands.
👏👍
Yeah, and I’m going to press the clouds above me to rain hundred-dollar bills.
Stop beating around the bush he Fucking ordered them MOTUS
The whole console is literally flashing red people. Nothing is too jacked up to fix yet but I'm worried I gotta tell ya.
M.o.r.o.n
'Trump goes on most unhinged Communist Dictator Twitter Rampage to date.'
this hurts but I hope people can understand that Trump's actions can save the civilisation for their future benefit
Why is puppet pushing China to Russia=lmao
Well, If that happens, Britain may have a trading partner following brexit, after all.
We’re gonna need a shit ton of immigrants to handle all these hypothetical manufacturing jobs moved from China to Here.
“Presses”? Really? That’s being kind. He said “I hereby order “.
He didn’t press! HE ORDERED! Get your healings right
Ummm...seriously? After the Greenland debacle...it’s on to the next one.
China doesn’t care if American business pulls out! 😂😂 what a dummy!
Completely unhinged. Insanity at its finest.
Abraham Lincoln looks as if he has had just about enough of this charlatan traitor president. Rightly so.
Including Ivanka?
wow his days are so numbered
So Americans really prepared to pay huge prices for the stuff that is made in China. Don’t think so
Advantage India if it's enforced
He did NOT 'press'. He ORDERED. FascistInChief
LOL China and most of ASIA is kicking our ASS in all areas! And they will be kicking our ASS in the future thanks to a dumbed down population! Good Job!
No he ordered like a dictator 🙄