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I'll say that the plans for GM make complete sense and most should have been done years ago.
Moving towards electric cars? I agree.
Too bad the current American administration cut the tax credits for buying electric cars.
Beautiful clean coal.
Crystal clear water.
Unlike the kind being sprayed over your vegetables.. that water is allowed to be dirty and untested.
Trump suggests he has inside information on the Russia probe, hours after Mueller said former campaign chief Manafort violated plea deal
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And just so we dont all forget:
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Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy
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And just so we dont all forget:
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Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy
#TRIGGERED!!!
Meanwhile Trumpolicy =
Emotional GM workers wipe tears away after thousands were laid off ahead of the holidays | Daily Mail Online
MAGA!
Emotional GM workers wipe tears away after thousands were laid off ahead of the holidays | Daily Mail Online
MAGA!
“At a record clean”
This fucking moron is the president of the United States of America. 29% of the country is happy about it.
This fucking moron is the president of the United States of America. 29% of the country is happy about it.
Trump threatens to cut GM's electric car subsidies because of plant closures
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General Motors' shares fall after Trump threatens to cut its subsidies as retaliation for layoffs
U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was "very disappointed" that General Motors was closing plants in the United States and warned that the White House was "now looking at cutting all GM subsidies," including for its electric cars program.
Trump unleashed on Twitter a day after GM announced it would shutter five plants and slash 14,000 jobs in North America, with many of the job cuts coming from the U.S.Midwest, where the president has promised a manufacturing rebirth.
Trump's incendiary tweet came a short time after National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow said the White House's reaction was "a tremendous amount of disappointment maybe even spilling over into anger." Kudlow, who met with GM CEO Mary Barra on Monday, said that Trump felt betrayed by GM, which the government had been trying to help.
"Look, we made this deal, we've worked with you along the way, we've done other things with mileage standards, for example, and other related regulations," Kudlow said. "We've done this to help you and I think his disappointment is, it seems like that they kind of turned his back on him."
Rebates of up to $7,500 per electric car
A White House rebuke to GM would fly in the face of what some describe as long-held Republican opposition to picking winners in the marketplace. It's not clear precisely what, or when, action may be taken. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that she did not have any additional information on the president's threat.
Buyers of electric vehicles made by GM and other automakers get U.S. federal tax credits of up to $7,500, helping to reduce the price as an incentive to get more of the zero-emissions vehicles on the road.
Dwayne Killingbeck bolts parts to a Camaro on the assembly line at the GM plant in Oshawa, Ont. The facility is one of six the automaker says it plans to soon mothball. ( Norm Betts/Bloomberg News )
Among the vehicles GM offers is the battery-powered Chevrolet Bolt, which can go almost 400 kilometres on a single charge. The company has pinned much of its future business plan on consumers switching to battery-powered vehicles, promising to roll out 20 new ones globally by 2023.
GM on Monday announced it would cut six gas-powered car models as part of a plan to close factories and cut costs so it can spend more on electric and autonomous vehicle development.
The reductions could amount to as much as 8 per cent of GM's global workforce of 180,000 employees.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke to Trump on Tuesday and both men expressed their disappointment about plans by General Motors to shut down auto plants, a senior Canadian official told reporters.
"They underscored their concerns for the workers, for the communities and for the families that are affected by this decision," the official told reporters.
The restructuring reflects changing North American auto markets as manufacturers continue to shift away from cars toward SUVs and trucks. In October, almost 65 per cent of new vehicles sold in the U.S. were trucks or SUVs. That figure was about 50 per cent cars just five years ago.
Trump has long promised to return manufacturing jobs to the United States and particularly the Midwest. At a rally near GM's Lordstown, Ohio, plant last summer, Trump told people not to sell their homes because the jobs are "all coming back."
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General Motors' shares fall after Trump threatens to cut its subsidies as retaliation for layoffs
Trump tweets he's looking at cutting all GM subsidies 5 Hours Ago | 01:58
President Donald Trump will consider cutting all subsidies to General Motors after the company announced plans to slash production at several American plants, he said Tuesday.
"We are now looking at cutting all @GM subsidies, including ... for electric cars," the president wrote in a pair of tweets.
The automaker's shares fell following the tweets and were down more than 3 percent on Tuesday afternoon, on track for their worst day in a month. In a statement Tuesday, GM said it is "committed to maintaining a strong manufacturing presence in the U.S." and noted that "many of the U.S. workers impacted by [plant closures] will have the opportunity to shift to other GM plants."
"We appreciate the actions this administration has taken on behalf of industry to improve the overall competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing," the company said, without directly addressing Trump's threat to revoke subsidies.
Trump slams Fed chair, questions climate change and threatens to cancel Putin meeting in wide-ranging interview with The Post
President Trump placed responsibility for recent stock market declines and this week’s General Motors plant closures and layoffs on the Federal Reserve during an interview Tuesday, shirking any personal blame for cracks in the economy and declaring that he is “not even a little bit happy” with his hand-selected central bank chairman.
In a wide-ranging and sometimes discordant 20-minute interview with The Washington Post, Trump complained at length about Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome H. “Jay” Powell, whom he nominated earlier this year. When asked about declines on Wall Street and GM’s announcement that it was laying off 15 percent of its workforce, Trump responded by criticizing higher interest rates and other Fed policies, though he insisted that he is not worried about a recession.
“I’m doing deals, and I’m not being accommodated by the Fed,” Trump said. “They’re making a mistake because I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me.”
He added: “So far, I’m not even a little bit happy with my selection of Jay. Not even a little bit. And I’m not blaming anybody, but I’m just telling you I think that the Fed is way off-base with what they’re doing.”
Trump also dismissed the federal government’s landmark report released last week finding that damages from global warming are intensifying around the country. The president said that “I don’t see” climate change as man-made and that he does not believe the scientific consensus.
“One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence but we’re not necessarily such believers,” Trump said. “You look at our air and our water, and it’s right now at a record clean.”
The president added of climate change, “As to whether or not it’s man-made and whether or not the effects that you’re talking about are there, I don’t see it.”
[Major Trump administration climate report says damage is ‘intensifying’]
The comments were Trump’s most extensive yet on why he disagrees with the dire National Climate Assessment released by his own administration Friday, which found that climate change poses a severe threat to the health and financial security of Americans, as well as to the country’s infrastructure and natural resources.
President Trump on Tuesday again questioned the CIA’s conclusion that the Saudi crown prince ordered the killing of a dissident journalist. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Sitting behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, Trump also threatened to cancel his scheduled meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a global summit this week because of Russia’s maritime clash with Ukraine. He said he was awaiting a “full report” from his national security team Tuesday evening about Russia’s capture of three Ukrainian naval ships and their crews in the Black Sea on Sunday.
“That will be very determinative,” Trump said. “Maybe I won’t have the meeting. Maybe I won’t even have the meeting. . . . I don’t like that aggression. I don’t want that aggression at all.”
Trump again questioned the CIA’s assessment that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a contributor to The Post, and said he has considered Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s repeated denials in his decision to maintain a close alliance with the oil-rich desert kingdom.
“Maybe he did and maybe he didn’t,” Trump said. “But he denies it. And people around him deny it. And the CIA did not say affirmatively he did it, either, by the way. I’m not saying that they’re saying he didn’t do it, but they didn’t say it affirmatively.”
The CIA has assessed that Mohammed ordered Khashoggi’s killing and has shared its findings with lawmakers and the White House, according to people familiar with the matter. Intelligence assessments are rarely, if ever, ironclad, and Trump has repeatedly stressed that there is no evidence that would irrefutably lay the blame at Mohammed’s feet.
But the CIA based its overall assessment of Mohammed’s role on a number of pieces of compelling evidence, including intercepted communications; surveillance from inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, where Khashoggi was killed in October; and the agency’s analysis of Mohammed’s total control of the Saudi government.
Meanwhile, Trump said he had “no intention” of taking action to stop special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
“The Mueller investigation is what it is. It just goes on and on and on,” Trump said. When pressed on whether he would commit to letting the probe continue until its conclusion, he stopped short of making an explicit pledge.
“This question has been asked about me now for almost two years,” the president said, at which point counselor Kellyanne Conway chimed in, “A thousand times.”
Trump continued: “And, in the meantime, he’s still there. He wouldn’t have to be, but he’s still there, so I have no intention of doing anything.”
The president declined to discuss on the record the Mueller team’s accusation Monday that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort had breached his plea agreement by lying repeatedly to investigators.
Trump also floated the idea of removing U.S. troops from the Middle East, citing the lower price of oil as a reason to withdraw.
“Now, are we going to stay in that part of the world? One reason to is Israel,” Trump said. “Oil is becoming less and less of a reason because we’re producing more oil now than we’ve ever produced. So, you know, all of a sudden it gets to a point where you don’t have to stay there.”
Trump also called the killing of three U.S. troops in a roadside explosion in Afghanistan this week “very sad.” He said he was continuing the military presence in Afghanistan only because “experts” told him the United States needed to keep fighting there.
The president said he was considering visiting troops in the region soon, perhaps before Christmas.
“At the right time I will,” Trump said of a war-zone visit, which would be his first as president.
He is surreal.“At a record clean”
This fucking moron is the president of the United States of America. 29% of the country is happy about it.
lol @ "Record clean".
lol @ "very high levels of intelligence such as myself"...
He is entertaining, I'll give him that. Entertaining and "sad!"
Lol @ Cuckistanis reeeeeeeeeeing about the god emperor.
Shouldn't the rich pay more tax than the poor?
I paid .96 cents a liter here there other day. MOGA!!!
You mean all of those ballers cruising around in their fancy Leafs and Priuses?
You aware those cars aren't what most would consider "cheap" yes?
Are you aware that you're cheering on people losing their jobs?
You're aware that those cars aren't what most would consider "expensive", yes?
You can find new ones on lots starting in the low 20s. That's pretty damned average anymore and the tax credit made them fall in line with similar gas models.
A Toyota Corolla starts at $18K, a Nissan Leaf starts at $29k. Prius starts north of $30 if memory serves.
Tax brackets should be based off income levels, yes.
Mutherfucker.