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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

"It is my opinion that the SUV or, as it is sometimes referred to, Large Engine Vehicle, which does so well in the United States, will be a wonderful addition to the various product lines within Vietnam"

Source: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114784170652465525

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[-] groet@feddit.org 247 points 1 month ago

Yes, the country known for driving scooters instead of cars will start buying SUVs that don't even fit the streets in many cities

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 143 points 1 month ago

Vietnam also halted the expansion of McDonald’s because local street food is cheaper and better.

[-] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 month ago

Vietnamese food is the shit

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 month ago

Bahn Mi every day, so fucking good.

[-] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 14 points 1 month ago

*banh mi

But yes, so very delicious. So fresh too.

SUVs won't work in Vietnam, not when you have Grab and scooters everywhere. It might become a rich person thing to drive around in those awful yank tanks but that's hardly a market.

This just sounds like the VN government is just making a nothing deal sound good for Trump. Americans paying tariffs for incoming VN products versus Vietnamese paying nothing for incoming American SUVs? A product that most Vietnamese won't find useful at all?

Ugh.

I want some bread now...

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[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 165 points 1 month ago

This reads like he still, even after everything, doesn't understand how tariffs work.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 86 points 1 month ago

I honestly can't decide if he just really doesn't know or he's this consistently dishonest. It's hard to pick cuz I have trouble believing he could be that consistent about anything.

[-] enobacon@urbanists.social 39 points 1 month ago

@njm1314 @KoboldCoterie he's a conman, so pretty consistent with whichever lies the con depends on, like LEV generally means Low Emission Vehicle. He knows how tariffs work, but won't admit that. Keeping cult members in a disinformation bubble is the whole game.

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[-] doc@fedia.io 41 points 1 month ago

Frustratingly his constant repeating of this backwards understanding is working. It's starting to widely take hold and resistance in the face of constant misinformation is breaking down. I heard in the last week NPR and the BBC repeat the "foreign country will pay" as fact, not a quote, with no effort to correct or clarify.

What's the saying? Repeat a lie enough and it becomes reality?

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[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 99 points 1 month ago

He still doesn't understand how tariffs work.

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[-] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 96 points 1 month ago

I have never once heard anyone ever refer to an SUV as a 'Large Engine Vehicle'. Am I just unaware, or is this trump being a complete idiot again?

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

He’s trying to flood google results for low emissions vehicles

[-] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago

He didn't actually say this, someone with access to his TS/Twitter account did. They don't know wtf SUV stands for and probably made it up.

[-] egrets@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

So they also have to imitate his illiterate misuse of title case for Important Words, random quotation marks for "emphasis", and littering of SHOUTY WORDS, not to mention his bizarre self-aggrandized tone and his ridiculous ways of ending messages that he thinks makes them look more important? Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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[-] Tobberone@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 month ago

I'd say it is an obvious way to try to confuse BEV with LEV... To sell more ICE-cars...

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[-] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 79 points 1 month ago

Vietnam will pay the US a tariff? What?

[-] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 47 points 1 month ago

It’s for his idiots. He doesn’t care what you think or believe

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[-] moody@lemmings.world 41 points 1 month ago

Trump still doesn't know what a tariff is.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago

So American will pay between 20 and 40% tax on goods coming from Vietnam but the Vietnamese can buy US goods with no tax?

Cool.

Do Americans know this?

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 14 points 1 month ago

It's protectionism, and the Democrats do. Republicans don't know what a tariff is.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

It's funny. 20 to 40 tax on Americans and none on the Vietnamese and he thinks that people who make an average of USD$8,000 per year are going to buy $100,000 US SUVs. He's a delusional idiot.

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[-] Almonds@mander.xyz 45 points 1 month ago

Every single Vietnamese person I've known has only driven motorcycles or scooters, because the roads are already too congested to handle large vehicle traffic. I know autos are available for hire, but realistically is it even worth owning an American SUV in Vietnam?

[-] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

I've been to HCM city and the streets are a river of scooters. These numbers are definitely off but I remember a tour guide saying there were something like 14 million people and 16 million scooters or (I forget the actual numbers). I gotta go back there it was so much fun. Amazing food, nice people and the best coffee i've ever had.

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[-] socsa@piefed.social 43 points 1 month ago

Does Trump actually think that Vietnam pays the tariffs?

[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 35 points 1 month ago

No but he knows his idiot cult followers believe what he wants them to believe.

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[-] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago

I, for one, have never in my life heard an SUV referred to as a Large Engine Vehicle

[-] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago

Have you seen how tiny the roads are there?

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 37 points 1 month ago

And how shitty american cars are?

[-] Tja@programming.dev 14 points 1 month ago

And how close japan and China are?

[-] FundMECFSResearch 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I’m so confused? Why would Vietnam agree to a one sided “free” trade agreement.

Assuming trump has wildly oversimplified the details to sound better than they are.

[-] the_wise_wolf@feddit.org 23 points 1 month ago

For Vietnam a bad deal is probably better than no deal. But also, don't believe anything Trump says.

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[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

Trump's gone woke, he's making deals with socialists! Quick, cancel his DEI funding!

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[-] 2lama@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

SUV=SubUrban Vehicle

That's what I thought the acronym stood for when I was younger, because I would usually see them in suburbs. Now that I'm older, I refuse to call them sport utility vehicles because suburban vehicle is a much better description of their intended use-case.

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[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Why would Vietnam be paying the tariff on Vietnamese goods going into the US? I swear the definition of a tariff changes every time I see it mentioned.

[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago

He's always said that tariffs are paid by the exporting country to the importing country. He's wrong of course, but at least he's consistent.

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[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Vietnam will pay a 20% tariff

He still hasn't learned how they work, has he

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[-] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 month ago

He still doesnt understand tariffs.

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[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

He is just so tiresome. Why won’t he just fucking choke already?

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[-] Fontasia@feddit.nl 28 points 1 month ago

Oh man, that's the second time America lost to Vietnam

[-] VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu 26 points 1 month ago

"I hate communists!" except the one that buy my Large Engine Vroom Vrooms. Thank you for your attention on this matter.

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[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

So he's putting tariffs on Vietnamese imports but exports are unburdened... So he's basically creating a trade deficit? The thing he railed against months ago?

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 month ago

I don't think i follow your logic, theoretically this would reduce the trade deficit. The US would be importing less from Vietnam because the people in the US have to pay 20% more, and the US would be exporting more to Vietnam as the price of the US good would be cheaper then they were before with no duties.

The US would be exporting more and importing less so the trade deficit will go down.

I don't think that's how it will work on reality as even with that 20% goods produced in Vietnam will still be cheaper then those made in the US. Same with US goods in Vietnam, where even if they don't cost any more then the equivalent Vietnamese good due to tarrifs, they'll still cost a lot more due to labor and shipping costs.

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[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 20 points 1 month ago

You receive: selling your shit in my country at a disadvantage

I receive: selling my shit in your country at an advantage

???

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[-] garretble@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

It’s funny to think about how when any of these GOP people talk about China, they always emphasize “the Chinese COMMUNIST Party” to dog whistle that they are “bad,” but now we are happy to trade with another communist country?

[-] ChillCapybara@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 month ago

Person. Woman. Man. Camera. SUV.

[-] sommerset@thelemmy.club 16 points 1 month ago

Is he aware that us car manufacturing has been decimated by china?

Why would they buy us suv, when china is right there and they can buy straight from the factory?

[-] Piece_Maker@feddit.uk 17 points 1 month ago

Is he also aware that basically the entire world outside of America thinks American cars are shit?

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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Every time I read something he's written or hear him speak I feel like I'm stupider

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