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Originally Posted by Muta
Does Trump even realize he's only hurting his own country's companies/citizens? Truly a ####ing idiot. But also, just another stupid thing to say to distract away from other things, as per Steve Bannon's playbook.
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The industry is completely integrated between both countries. Tariff Canada even 25% and it almost completely shuts down most US Assembly lines in Michigan, Ohio, etc. So the process of disintegrating it would be so immediately painful and expensive for US automakers and consumers.
Ultimately this bluster is probably mostly to freeze automakers current investment in Canada and inflict pain leading into USCMA renegotiation. Also agree there likely is some element of smokescreen to distract from the fact that they are gearing up to create a constitutional crisis by ignoring a court order to restore congressional funding. Much like the tariff bluster a week or so ago was occurring at the same time they were freezing funding to begin with.