“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
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?
It’s protectionism, and the Democrats do. Republicans don’t know what a tariff is.
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.
I some times ask myself is it dementia or imbecility?
Does that man understand the bullshit coming out of his holes, or is it the narcism that makes him talk and talk and talk, no matter how much lunacy is it the words leaving him…
Yes
If I had no idea who he was, I could give extreme benefit of the doubt and say it’s spin. Claiming a loss is really a win.
But we do know who he is, so I’m going with imbecility.
I clicked on the link and There’s no german page for that… but there’s a page in Pfälzisch, the dialect people in the german region Palatinate (Pfalz) speak.
Yes
Vietnam will pay a 20% tariff
He still hasn’t learned how they work, has he
Trump? Learning? Yeah… nope.
More like he can never admit he was wrong
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?
Is he also aware that basically the entire world outside of America thinks American cars are shit?
No our president is a legit tard
This reads like he still, even after everything, doesn’t understand how tariffs work.
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.
@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.
Why did you tag both of those users?
Probably using Mastodon
politicians are not usually that dumb regardless of the image they project.
you can bet its dishonesty with just a side of stupidity, as a treat.
He doesnt care how they work.
It think he’s role playing as a “wildcard” character. He actually has said he likes being unpredictable to keep people on their toes.
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?
Neither do the people
whomwho voted. This is why an educated population is very important*who
Yeah, me bad engrish
For him to start to understand would imply the ability to learn
Uh, he doesn’t.
He still doesn’t understand how tariffs work.
As I keep saying: It sounds like he thinks the word “tariff” just means “payment”. Then he follows that with “[whoever he thinks should make the payment]”. Tariff by Apple, Tariff by China, etc. Honestly. I don’t know how else you can make it make sense.
My supposition is that he’s a complete moron following advice from someone working off a protectionism 101 primer from 1834 who had Randian bullshit physically replace his brain to the point where they don’t do the rest of the steps ri make the protectionism work because that’s the government doing stuff and therefore communism
True, but there’s zero chance he had anything to do with this tweet.
There is a severe lack of capitalization
Feels like “my Great Honor” (?!?!?!) is a giveaway though lol.
Vietnam
SUV
Vietnam:
I, for one, have never in my life heard an SUV referred to as a Large Engine Vehicle
Oh man, that’s the second time America lost to Vietnam
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?
He’s trying to flood google results for low emissions vehicles
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.
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.
I’d say it is an obvious way to try to confuse BEV with LEV… To sell more ICE-cars…
Most SUVs these days don’t even have the ‘Large Engines’ of old.
My wife’s SUV has a smaller engine then my 2.0 Subaru which is crazy to me
them putting lawn mower engines into the cars would certainly explain the dogshit emissions
The term large engine vehicle sounds like came from the same guy that coined big dick energy
Vietnam will pay the US a tariff? What?
It’s for his idiots. He doesn’t care what you think or believe
Know. I don’t think or believe how tariffs work, I know how tariffs work. I know he doesn’t care about that either though
Trump still doesn’t know what a tariff is.
Lol, one visit to Vietnam can easily show you why an SUV is not going to be a hit there. It’s basically motorcycle country. Cars are pretty common too, but motorcycles are basically THE form of transportation there.
Unfortunately their governemnt is investing heavily into car only infrastructure which bikes aren’t allowed to use. It’s frustrating to see considering their cities are already at maximum traffic with motorbikes alone. Adding cars to the mix there just isn’t possible.
Also there’s no way that US automakers will be able to outcompete Vinfast and Chinese EVs who are working with better subsidies and significantly cheaper labor.
That’s ok, there will be a statement at some point in the near future from some Vietnamese official denying that any of this post from Trump is true.
This has been the pattern, I’ve no doubt it will continue to be.
time to invent the SUV-motorcycle
It’s called a bmw gs
And their streets are narrow, especially in the French quarter of Hanoi and other older areas. The vehicles in use currently are often very small to make it easier to navigate the narrow roads (and street/laneway parking) and like you mention - the scooters, which are like 90% of vehicle traffic.
I’m in Hanoi right now. Theres quite a few SUVs and crossovers. Maybe between 1:4 and 1:8 cars to bikes.
Mostly Kias and Toyotas, I saw 1 Ford Explorer.
1:4 is a wild ratio. I can’t picture that in Saigon, but maybe Hanoi is a lot different
It’s so bad for the flow of traffic.
I can only pray the government does something to discourage cars and encourage electric bikes before it gets worse.
I was in Saigon in 2016 and there were quite a few SUVs, lots of larger Toyotas like Land Cruisers for Uber, etc.
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.
Considering there is nothing sport or utility about them, I think your name for them is fitting.
They’re great at driving onto sidewalks, or over the curb if the person in front is taking too long at the drive thru.
Volvos for dads
“Thank you for your attention to this matter” is a phrase stolen from fifth-rate middle-management corporate power wannabes. We are not his employees and do not work for him. I’d believe him more if he ended his endless emails with “…and always remember. Fuck You”.
In other words Vietnamese will not pay extra for US cars but US citizens will pay extra for EVERYTHING that comes from Vietnam. LOL
Have you seen how tiny the roads are there?
And how shitty american cars are?
And how close japan and China are?
You should be able to fit at least one SUV:
You can totally fit 3!
That’s an alley, not a road. They have perfectly normal sized roads in Vietnam.
