Trump Threatens to Take Away Your Beemer

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2018/5/31/1544/76174

Trump Threatens to Take Away Your Beemer
by BooMan
Thu May 31st, 2018 at 03:04:04 PM EST

If Donald Trump wants to cede the affluent suburbs to the Democrats and lose the support of an even greater proportion of the formerly Republican white professional class, he could hardly do better than threatening people’s Audis and BMW’s. Where I live in the Philly suburbs, the Republicans are already on the verge of losing at least three House seats, and it seems like approximately a third of the vehicles on the road would match the description of being “German luxury cars.”

President Trump wants to impose a total ban on the imports of German luxury cars, according to a new report from CNBC and German magazine WirtschaftsWoche.

Several U.S. and European diplomats told the news outlets that Trump told French President Emmanuel Macron about his plans last month during a state visit.

Trump reportedly told Macron that he would maintain the ban until no Mercedes-Benz cars are seen on Fifth Avenue in New York.

Shares of Daimler, Porsche and Volkswagen were lower on Thursday, shortly after the weekly German business magazine published the report.

Of course, some of these cars are actually manufactured in America, so this wouldn’t cause a complete blackout of all makes of German luxury cars. On a substantive level, if we ignore the fallout from reciprocal actions that Germany would take, this could result in more car manufacturing jobs in America. German carmakers could open new or more plants here to avoid the importation ban, and American carmakers might be able to expand if they gain a greater share of the luxury car market. There’s a political upside in the sense that it would give Trump more credibility when he casts himself as a populist who doesn’t cater to rich people and their car preferences.

But, overall, this looks like a policy that would do some really serious damage to Republicans in some of the swingiest districts in the country.

[FarPoint]

1. Too late...

I already traded mine in on a 2018 Hybrid Ford C-Max...

[CincyDem]

2. He ain't taking my f'ing Beemer...

...born and raised in South Carolina. Picked it up as an "executive use" car...turns out it was being driven by the plant manager or something down there. Still had his iPhone name in the bluetooth.

I'm sure more than a few of Lindsey Graham's supporters will be running to the left if he tries to shut that place down. Drove past the place once down along 85. Yuge...it's just Yuge.

[onenote]

3. Since I never drive in NYC, maybe this means I can pick up a used Beemer cheap from a NYer.

[smirkymonkey]

4. Sure they are luxury cars, but they are also some of the best made cars in the world.

What is his rationale for doing this? Or is he just being a dick as usual?

Is he eventually going ban all imported vehicles (except for Russian cars, of course)? I wouldn't put it past him. Eventually we are all going to be driving piece of shit Ladas.