Yup they won’t be coming back and why on earth would they do anything else with them in the future.
"We're acting exactly like Nazis in Nazi Germany and I just don't understand why no one wants to do business with us!"
Also the guy from Ireland who had his subdermal piercings involuntarily cut out without anesthetic.
WHAT??!
Ice also abducted all of the adults out of a minivan, leaving two small children behind, who had to be rescued from the heat by bystanders.
If we’re going off history, it’s bad news because fucking EVERYBODY still did business with the Nazis.
To be fair, lots of companies wanted to do business with the Nazis. Most businesses now don't have an issue with Trump being a fascist, but that it's unpredictable. That's bad for business.
He’s an incompetent child rapist
You don't know that. Maybe raping children is the one thing he's good at?
Maybe questioning his child-raping prowess is the key to make him admit it? 🤔🤔
Well, he’s doing a great job getting away with it!
Only because we refuse to arrest rich people. He got caught red handed
Trump backs off
The damage is already done. He got to stuff hundreds of Korean workers in one of his torture prisons while extorting the company and the country for their release. He's not backing off. He's pulling his fist back for another swing. Fucking headline journalists are too "TACO" pilled to see the next blow coming.
Hyundai already announced a two to three month delay on this plant after this whole thing. They aren't walking away, but this isn't an event they are forgetting.
It won't matter what President comes after this one, this whole thing is going to influence investment from South Korea for some time.
If you were a foreign company considering investing a substantial amount of money to build a plant in the U.S., and then the unstable authoritarian dictator of that country pulls a stunt like this, you're going to reconsider putting any more capital at risk.
I've seen this plant, and it's massive. I don't know how close to completion they are, but billions have been spent. If they pull out they are going to take a hell of a loss. Hopefully that means they'll work to weaken Trump and the GOP in order to help their bottom line.
Sunk cost fallacy.
Indeed.
The actuarial calculation must be the billions more that will potentially be lost when exposing themselves to further harassment and extortion from Trump and his cronies versus the definite billions lost if they were to cancel everything now.
I wish more people understood this
An unstable authoritarian dictator who, as way of a supposed apology, has literally told you that he's going to do it again as soon as he's stolen your technology, with the stated intention of putting you and your whole country out of business.
Only reasonable course of action seems to write the factory down as a loss and never set foot in the USA again.
When Foreign Companies who are building extremely complex products, machines, and various other 'things,' come into the United States with massive Investments, I want them to bring their people of expertise for a period of time to teach and train our people how to make these very unique and complex products, as they phase out of our Country, and back into their land," the president posted on Truth Social, adding “I don’t want to frighten off or disincentivize Investment into America by outside Countries or Companies. We welcome them, we welcome their employees, and we are willing to proudly say we will learn from them.”
You know what's missing there?
An apology.
Also several inappropriately capitalized letters. Trump didn't write this.
He can't write anything. The stroke rendered his right hand unusable, and he's probably permanently loopy, more than usual. It's "Weekend at Bernie's: The White House Years."
You know what's missing there?
The unredacted Epstein list!
When has Trump use a word as big as disincentivize in the last 15 years? His media representative needs to up their game.
Divest from America! Shrink their economy!
Statesian here. I fully support this. Some people don't learn unless it hurts.
Lowest IQ president in U.S. history.
Also a literal traitor to our nation, its Constitution, and democracy in general.
Don’t forget degenerate pedophile and co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein.
To any foreign entities, companies, individuals who haven’t caught on to the obvious truth: You are not safe here, your investments are not secure here, any visas, treaties, contracts are all 100% revocable despite any perception that they are legally binding. Do not come here. Despite the fact that there are good and rational people fighting to change this, the hard fact is that we are flaming out, and there is no telling what destruction and chaos is coming.
Just look at the destruction and chaos we perpetrated around the world when our society was at its height and our population had the most accommodating economic conditions in history.
our society was at its height and our population had the most accommodating economic conditions in history
I think that's the thing the populace isn't feeling yet. It hasn't impacted their comfort enough for them personally, yet. I never understood the mindset people had that led to "first they came for...". I no longer have that naïveté, for I am seeing it unreeling in real time.
TACO
Its too late, damage is already done you dumbass
This was such a preventable suicide, lol
This entire train wreck was preventable.
Pretty sure this is how racists determine a suitable client race. Abuse them & see if they come back for more.
South Korea needs to tell the USA to pound sand & open those factories elsewhere.
He really has got porridge for brains. It amazes me he can manage simultaneous walking and talking.
Why on earth would foreign companies want to invest in the US right now? He is the one that's making it less likely, there was plenty of foreign investment in the US under previous administrations then this moron came along and ruined it all.
He chickened out again?
Pfft, a proper real man and leader would've gone down to that concentration camp and punched each one of those Koreans himself!!!
Epstein's Taco chickens out again.
Canada, on the other hand, would be happy to host a Hyundai plant once again.
TACO Don...
A rare case where the AI slop is less repulsive than the actual person. Still repulsive, of course.
Another unsurprising TACO Tuesday.
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