Donald Trump threatens to stop Barbie dolls being sold in US
Donald Trump threatens to stop Barbie dolls being sold in US
The president warned of a 100-percent tariff on Mattel and said that the company "won't sell one toy in the United States."
Donald Trump has threatened to place a 100 percent tariff on Barbie maker Mattel, after the company's CEO said it would continue to manufacture outside the U.S. but would be reducing its reliance on Chinese imports.
"I've heard [Mattel] said: 'Well we're going to go counter, we're going to try going someplace else,'" Trump said in the Oval Office on Thursday. "That's OK, let him go, and we'll put a 100 percent tariff on his toys, and he won't sell one toy in the United States, and that's their biggest market."
In an interview with CNBC on Tuesday, Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz was asked whether it would be cheaper to relocate some manufacturing to the U.S. due to the tariffs, but responded: "We don't see that happening."
So what's he trying to deflect attention from this week? The jumbo jet from Qatar? The genocide against the Palestinians? His utter inability to influence anything related to Ukraine?
And the bigly brained free market capitalists in his party will cheer while he targets a corporation for engaging in free market capitalism.
I'm old enough to remember when a group of people this collectively deluded were kept in asylums.
First, it was the Idiocracy movie that started out as parody and became a documentary over time. Now, the Barbie movie is becoming reality right before our eyes. The Kens are in charge, and they are all dumb as posts.
Those were pseudo-documentaries. Don't Look Up matches reality better. And the topic doesn't have to be science related for the comet metaphor to work.
It's funny because after that we found out that a comet probably won't do that much damage if it impacts over the ocean.
I found it off-putting that the Barbie movie’s solution to its dilemma was voter suppression.
There are a lot of problematic parts to the movie that kind of got swept under the rug.
And then it turned out that for the 2024 presidential election, we went back to the Mojo Dojo Casa House.
To be honest I fell asleep watching Barbie early on. I had to read a summary later.
Okay.
HAVE THE DAY YOU VOTED FOR
First it was 30 dolls. Then it was 2 dolls. Now it’s 0 dolls. HOW MANY DOLLS WILL IT BE NEXT WEEK???!? WHO KNOWS!!
-4 dolls. All patriotic Americans are required to surrender 4 dolls immediately for processing and export to Central America
He'll be Nixon from Futurama.
"I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place."
First it was slapping tariffs on penguins. Now we've entered the "War on Dolls" stage of the Trump administration.
I wish I was joking.
I hate this timeline.
A plague on both their plastic dreamhouses
DO IT!
As someone who manufactures stuff, I can attest that we’re almost all looking at other countries, not standing up US manufacturing.
Standing up manufacturing in the US takes too long and costs too much for us to do when we’re going into a recession.
This is how winning is done.
Does that mean we're great again?
The EU has a larger population than the US, it might be worth investing in that market
My question is: how is he going to succeed if he's pissing of his base? (not the MAGA crowd, the billionaires)
This is what billionaires are paying him to do.
Also do dizney!
Well Disney theme parks are gonna take a hit when people are afraid to go to the Untied States. People are still foolishly going now because their trips were planned before all this but once those pre-planned trips are over, Disney theme parks will be a fair bit emptier
Now, a power move from Matel would be to not increase the price after a tariff, and take the loss, or make some sort of "Tariff Barbie" to teach kids about their wonderful president.
they won't do either of those things though, theyre just going to take the punch and roll.
A "Tariff Barbie"? Like a trans version? That would certainly get people's attention.
My thought was some sort of barbie doll that is just a literal stick or something with a card that tells the child why they only have a stick (the tariffs trump has imposed.)
Oh fuck off Trump
Meanwhile, there will be a surge of GI Joe figures
What do Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig say?