^^^ This.

Go read the comments elsewhere for this article from the guy who openly admits to being a Trump supporter. For these guys to realise their dumb decision has consequences, they’d first have to be smart enough to realise those consequences were the result of a dumb decision. They’re not.

There’s VAT payable on any new car sold in the EU no matter where it was made and at the same rate in any given country. If I toddle off to my nearest car dealer the prices quoted there include all taxes. If I take the odd notion of privately importing a car from the US it’ll be subject to 10% import duty (WTO rates,…

We know this, but there are bunch of people who don’t know. And the sad thing is, those who don’t know are not going to want to learn it. Where does that leave us? The same place where we started. Fuck, I hate this.

Basically. I mean I understand why these rebuttals are important, but I think we are all basically aware that the man is a dummy who says dumb things. I fear if we let ourselves make a circus of our outrage -not that this piece individually is an egregious example- that we lose a sense of perspective regarding the…

I believe Angela Merkel had to remind him something like ten times and it still didn’t quite sink in.

Trump obviously lives in his own version of the past. A simpler time when German things were all in Germany and American things were all in America. And now all he knows is American companies all left America but nothing else has ever moved anywhere else.

“Not that any of this matters, anyway, as Germany doesn’t negotiate trade deals unilaterally, as it’s part of the European Union, which negotiates trade as a bloc.”

Straight up, I’m sure trump knows his base see BMW drivers are liberal douches who can’t park.

Your “facts” are no match for Trump’s ignorant assumptions!

It’s weird, I guess I assumed all these years that he understood business, he was just an asshole outside of that. Then you read something like this and realize he just hasn’t got a fucking clue how trade and commerce actually work. Not just ‘well, he’s had success and failure’, but ‘any success is in spite of him,…

So in summary... Donald Trump is a Jackass.

Didn’t he also scold the EU for making it difficult for him to build golf courses in Europe? I bet German cars would quickly stop being a problem if they let him bulldoze the Black Forest and build a resort.

I don’t know what is more horrible about this whole trip.

Now, does our president really look like the type of person to have any idea what he’s doing? He’s a big picture guy!

So Trump is bitching about German auto makers like BMW. BMW sells fewer total vehicles in the US than Ford sells F150s, and over a third of those are actually built in the US.

This will end up with Lufthansa cancelling all of its Boeing orders, going to Airbus instead.

It’s almost as if he’s a complete fucking moron and just says words for the sake of saying them without understanding anything at all!

Ha Canada has a maple syrup reserve

Yes, but Sergey has a solution. Hydrogen! More plentiful than Helium, and more buoyant as well. I’m surprised nobody has tried this ever before, ever. Nothing could possibly go wrong.