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Eugene

(65,241 posts)
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 04:08 PM Sunday

Trump says automakers, Tesla must build cars, parts in US

Source: Reuters

Trump says automakers, Tesla must build cars, parts in US

Reuters
Fri, May 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM EDT 1 min read

(Reuters) -Automakers in the United States, including Tesla, must build entire vehicles including all their parts in the country instead of manufacturing parts abroad, President Donald Trump said on Friday.

The comments from Trump, at a press conference marking Tesla CEO Elon Musk's last official day at the White House as a senior adviser, were in response to a question on tariffs hurting companies such as Tesla that import auto parts from other countries.

"He's going to end up building his whole car here. Pretty much he does," Trump said referring to Musk. "All of the manufacturers will build their parts here too."

"It used to bother me they make a part in Canada, a part in Mexico, a part in Europe, and sent all over the place, and nobody knew what the hell was happening," Trump said. "But over the next year, they've got to have the whole thing built in America. That's what we want."

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Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-automakers-tesla-must-201939495.html

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VMA131Marine

(4,997 posts)
2. Get ready for huge price hikes in new cars ...
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 04:13 PM
Sunday

and shortages.

The prices of used cars will rise as a result as people look for alternatives to buying new. Trump is going to kill the US car industry.

lapfog_1

(30,910 posts)
3. "nobody knew what the hell was happening"
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 04:13 PM
Sunday

yeah, the cars just assemble themselves because nobody knows what is happening.

What a freaking moron.

Deuxcents

(22,421 posts)
4. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this monumentally stupid man who is supposed to be president
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 04:33 PM
Sunday

dweller

(26,625 posts)
5. This fn moron doesn't know
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 04:35 PM
Sunday

The first thing about the auto industry , auto manufacturing , auto maintenance, has never had to buy a car or even driven one . He’s been chauffeured his whole pampered stinking life .
And yet the auto industry is going to cave to his dictates ?
They need to lead in the effort to 25A him .

Fn idiot

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patphil

(7,889 posts)
6. I think he might want to include the automakers in on this grand scheme of his.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 04:45 PM
Sunday

The auto industry is multinational in both the manufacture and sales of their cars.
To change their manufacturing and marketing to suit one man who is going to be a short lived phenomenon is an idiotic idea.
It would require perhaps 10 years and hundreds of billions of dollars to have American cars 100% made in America. Not to mention hundreds of thousands more workers; workers we don't have and aren't going to have thanks to the President's deportation policy.
Also, the price of those cars would be too high for most people to afford to buy them.

We're rapidly approaching a 25th Amendment situation here folks. Trump is losing brain function more and more each day. The sad part is that JD Vance is Vice-President. Him taking the oath of office is a sight I never want to see.

littlemissmartypants

(27,829 posts)
7. I'd like to believe...
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 05:00 PM
Sunday

That even the stupidest person on the planet is smart enough not to broadcast their stupidity like this idiot.

Emile

(34,901 posts)
11. Of course it will never happen, but his maga base eat this stupid stuff up
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 07:01 AM
4 hrs ago

and that's all that matters.

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