Trump goes to war with corporate America

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The president’s widening trade war is pushing longtime GOP allies to the front lines of a fight against the Trump administration.

By BEN WHITE and MEGAN CASSELLA 07/03/2018 05:07 AM EDT

President Donald Trump is now at full-scale war over trade policy with some of the Republican Party’s staunchest allies in big business, including executives at iconic American brands such as General Motors and Harley-Davidson who previously shied away from criticizing an often irascible president.

Trump’s approach has created a high-stakes showdown without recent political precedent: A Republican president betting that his populist approach to trade will thrill his working-class base and blow away any short-term economic fallout or reduced political support from the nation’s largest business organizations. His message to corporate America so far: I don’t care what you say, my base is with me.

On the other side, corporate titans and market analysts fear Trump is on the cusp of damaging the American economy — and that he will not recognize the failure of his approach until it’s too late.

“With every successive firecracker that Trump sets off, we see corporate leaders and groups emboldened and ready to go on the public stage to take him on,” said Nancy Koehn, a business historian at Harvard. “This isn’t the natural order of history that large business groups oppose a Republican president. Trump has a from-the-gut sense that his base will be with him come hell or high water. But it’s a very big bet with no certainty of success.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/03/trump-war-corporate-america-harley-davidson-666926

He will not recognize his failure until its to late................think about what you the corporation was saying about this sexual predator when he ran.......................how much fucking money did you give him to get elected and how many of you were clapping your hands because you got your fucking tax breaks.......................go fuck your self................you and him created this fucking mess.......................and the worker is going to pay the price for your and his bull shit....................FUCK YOU



November 2018 cannot get here fast enough.......................get out and vote

[Hoyt]

1. I'm confused. Normally we'd support ticking off "Republican's staunchest allies in big business." nt

[Iliyah]

2. t-rump's orders from Putin, nothing to see, move along.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. If one looks at German History of the Thirties,

Goebbels and Himmler worked the German Industry owners over in a similiar manner. Once the Krupp's family family caved to pressure,the rest fell in line. Trump is using the same tactics only this time it seems to be Steve Miller and Bannon running the PR program.

[Ron Green]

4. I think the real test for America is whether most people can see the issues

which Trump’s presidency has put into high relief as pointers toward a moral economy, one that neither Dems or Repubs have allowed for many decades.

[Achilleaze]

5. KGOP republicans* are steadily, systematically weakening America

* under the misleadership of Comrade Dirty Donny, the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief