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Angela Merkel Rejected President Trump's Claims That German Cars Are a Security Threat

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At the Munich Security Conference where Western allies have long forged united fronts erupted Saturday into a full-scale assault on the Trump administration’s foreign policy. European leaders, would-be Democratic challengers and even the president’s Republican backers took the floor to rebuke the president’s go-it-alone approach. The audience applauded Merkel, as Ivanka sat silent in the audience. There are more BMW jobs in South Carolina than there are in Bavaria.


Angela Merkel Rejected President Trump's Claims That German Cars Are a Security Threat

Merkel Rejects Trump Calling German Cars a Security Threat | Time

(Bloomberg) — Chancellor Angela Merkel took President Donald Trump to task before an audience of senior security officials in Munich, calling his administration’s suggestion that European autos are a threat to U.S. national security a “shock.”


In a pointed defense of multilateral institutions ahead of a speech by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence at the Munich Security Conference, the German leader called for global trade and cooperation. The biggest BMW plant is in South Carolina, she said, not in the car maker’s homeland of Bavaria in southern Germany.


“Look, we’re proud of our cars,” Merkel said Saturday. “We’re allowed to be. And these cars are built in the United States of America.”
 
Trump is a security threat.
 
HumblePi said:
At the Munich Security Conference where Western allies have long forged united fronts erupted Saturday into a full-scale assault on the Trump administration’s foreign policy. European leaders, would-be Democratic challengers and even the president’s Republican backers took the floor to rebuke the president’s go-it-alone approach. The audience applauded Merkel, as Ivanka sat silent in the audience. There are more BMW jobs in South Carolina than there are in Bavaria.


Angela Merkel Rejected President Trump's Claims That German Cars Are a Security Threat

Merkel Rejects Trump Calling German Cars a Security Threat | Time

(Bloomberg) — Chancellor Angela Merkel took President Donald Trump to task before an audience of senior security officials in Munich, calling his administration’s suggestion that European autos are a threat to U.S. national security a “shock.”


In a pointed defense of multilateral institutions ahead of a speech by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence at the Munich Security Conference, the German leader called for global trade and cooperation. The biggest BMW plant is in South Carolina, she said, not in the car maker’s homeland of Bavaria in southern Germany.


“Look, we’re proud of our cars,” Merkel said Saturday. “We’re allowed to be. And these cars are built in the United States of America.”
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Too bad. She still has to deal with this:

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She should know by now that her rhetoric might mollify the masses, but it won't affect Trump. She would be better off just negotiating.
 
All the more reason to conclude Trump is a danger to our economy and trade.
 
Helix said:
Trump is a security threat.
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Trump, Pence and their sycophants are so out of touch with reality, I seriously worry about the future of this country. I never had those concerns before.
 
Trump hates Germany hence he hates German cars. He has stated as much many times. That a country´s trade policy is dictated by the irrational personal hatreds of the leader is not what the US or any western Democracy is about... now Iran or Syria, sure, but not the US.... until now.
 
PeteEU said:
Trump hates Germany hence he hates German cars. He has stated as much many times. That a country´s trade policy is dictated by the irrational personal hatreds of the leader is not what the US or any western Democracy is about... now Iran or Syria, sure, but not the US.... until now.
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He hates Germany because their Chancellor happens to be a strong, intelligent woman.
 
HumblePi said:
He hates Germany because their Chancellor happens to be a strong, intelligent woman.
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And the fact that his grandfather was kicked out of Germany as a traitor... you forget, technically his is of German decent.
 
HumblePi said:
At the Munich Security Conference where Western allies have long forged united fronts erupted Saturday into a full-scale assault on the Trump administration’s foreign policy. European leaders, would-be Democratic challengers and even the president’s Republican backers took the floor to rebuke the president’s go-it-alone approach. The audience applauded Merkel, as Ivanka sat silent in the audience. There are more BMW jobs in South Carolina than there are in Bavaria.


Angela Merkel Rejected President Trump's Claims That German Cars Are a Security Threat

Merkel Rejects Trump Calling German Cars a Security Threat | Time

(Bloomberg) — Chancellor Angela Merkel took President Donald Trump to task before an audience of senior security officials in Munich, calling his administration’s suggestion that European autos are a threat to U.S. national security a “shock.”


In a pointed defense of multilateral institutions ahead of a speech by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence at the Munich Security Conference, the German leader called for global trade and cooperation. The biggest BMW plant is in South Carolina, she said, not in the car maker’s homeland of Bavaria in southern Germany.


“Look, we’re proud of our cars,” Merkel said Saturday. “We’re allowed to be. And these cars are built in the United States of America
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As your great leader used to say "Words matter". Does BMW build or assemble their cars in America. Sad how easy it is to dupe so many. Talking about security how about if Germany starts providing for their own. Somehow we have conflated leeches with allies.
 
Mycroft said:
Too bad. She still has to deal with this:

{snipped photoshop meme...cuz we're adults}

She should know by now that her rhetoric might mollify the masses, but it won't affect Trump. She would be better off just negotiating.
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lol...yes, Mycroft. All the countries of the world should line up in an orderly queue for the honor of taking it up the ass from America... :lamo "Negotiate"

Nah, this is just one more ass you guys are going to have to kiss when you put a real president back in the WH.

It's not all bad news, though - for one thing, when you finally rid yourselves of the genital wart known as Donald Trump, you'll get so much practice at saying "Sorry" that you'll surpass us Canadians at being the world's best apologizers. :)
 
PeteEU said:
And the fact that his grandfather was kicked out of Germany as a traitor... you forget, technically his is of German decent.
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:roll: He left at age 16 and worked in the USA as a barber.
 
OrphanSlug said:
All the more reason to conclude Trump is a danger to our economy and trade.
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Trump is good for our economy. Trump could be good for Germany's economy...if they would abandon the globalist economy that Merkel loves so much.

Trump is bad for the globalists...and therein lies Merkel's problems.
 
Mycroft said:
Trump is good for our economy. Trump could be good for Germany's economy...if they would abandon the globalist economy that Merkel loves so much.

Trump is bad for the globalists...and therein lies Merkel's problems.
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Change it to Trump is bad for the globe, and I'd have thrown you a like.
 
OlNate said:
Change it to Trump is bad for the globe, and I'd have thrown you a like.
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Merkel wants the globe to be controlled by the globalists.
 
Mycroft said:
Merkel wants the globe to be controlled by the globalists.
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And? Welcome to the 21st century. Hate to break it to you, but it is already controlled by globalists. It's why America is seeing so much push back. The American economy is big, no question - but the world economy is bigger. You picked a guy who can't play nice, exactly when playing nice is the most critical.

Unless you guys are going to resurrect colonization / conquering, you're still going to need to trade with the world. Time to fall in line. :shrug: You guys are still big dogs...just not the big dogs you used to be. Given how much you conservatives hate being on the hook for other countries, is that such a bad thing?
 
Mycroft said:
Merkel wants the globe to be controlled by the globalists.
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That word that you keep using. I do not think that word means what you think it means. Globalism just means believing in free trade. It doesn’t mean one world government.
 
Mycroft said:
Trump is good for our economy. Trump could be good for Germany's economy...if they would abandon the globalist economy that Merkel loves so much.

Trump is bad for the globalists...and therein lies Merkel's problems.
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That has become another word used to scare people like Socialism, Globalists becoming some four letter word when the reality is for several hundred years now we have been a globalist economy in one form or another. Our nation going all the way back to its founding participated in global economics, linking our economy to that of other nations. Before this nation was this nation, trade across Europe looking to trade across the far East for the same reason and to the same result. Linking economies.

Products, final products, technologies, advancements, art, culture, languages, even religions traveled on the back of the very "globalist economy" the right has bastardized in a haze of political foolishness.

Of the top 10 employers in the US, every single one of them... without exception... in some way participates in global economics.

For 2017 the percentage of sales of products and services from foreign countries was over 40%, and that makes the overwhelming majority of all S&P 500 companies with both assets and revenue made outside of this nation. Consumer discretionary, consumer staples, energy, financials, healthcare, industrial, information technology, raw materials, etc. there is not a single sector of the market not touched by global economics. Not a single one.

From Exxon, to Apple, to Boeing, to Ford, to General Electric, to Walmart, to Coca-Cola Co, to CME, to HP... they all by overwhelming majority participate in global economics.
 
MTAtech said:
That word that you keep using. I do not think that word means what you think it means. Globalism just means believing in free trade. It doesn’t mean one world government.
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If what you think were true, then nobody in the world would have any heartburn about Trump's actions. After all, he is only interested in free trade that benefits America...just as every other country is interested in free trade that benefits themselves.

Globalism means much more than "free trade". Globalism means "control".

For example,

Interlocking Structure of Elite Control

In his book Big Oil and Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families and Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics and Terror Network, Dean Henderson states: “My queries to bank regulatory agencies regarding stock ownership in the top 25 US bank holding companies were given Freedom of Information Act status, before being denied on ‘national security’ grounds. This is ironic since many of the bank’s stockholders reside in Europe.” This is, on the face of it, quite astonishing but it goes to show the US government works not for the people but for the Elite. It also shows that secrecy is paramount in Elite affairs. No media outlet will raise this issue because the Elite owns the media. Secrecy is essential for Elite control – if the world finds out the truth about the wealth, thought, ideology and activities of the Elite there would be a worldwide revolt against it. Henderson further states:

The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP Amoco and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with other European and old money behemoths. But their monopoly over the global economy does not end at the edge of the oil patch. According to company 10K filings to the SEC, the Four Horsemen of Banking are among the top ten stockholders of virtually every Fortune 500 corporation.

Who Really Controls the World? Deadly Weapons, Concentration of Wealth, Corporate Media - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Research on Globalization
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Trump is slowly, but surely, taking control away from globalists...at least, as their control applies to the US. (and they do NOT like that)
 
joko104 said:
:roll: He left at age 16 and worked in the USA as a barber.
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And was a citizen of the Kingdom of Bavaria. He was obligated to serve in the military at age 18 and did not...he lost his citizenship due to this and was labelled a traitor.

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washunut said:
As your great leader used to say "Words matter". Does BMW build or assemble their cars in America. Sad how easy it is to dupe so many. Talking about security how about if Germany starts providing for their own. Somehow we have conflated leeches with allies.
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I'm not sure if that was a real question since it was in the post that BMW has a plant in S. Carolina. The BMW Spartanburg as it's known is located in Greer, South Carolina. It's a vehicle assembly facility for BMW Group and is located in Greer, S.C. Not only that, but the manufacturing plant in Greer has the highest production volume of the BMW plants worldwide.

That 'leech' as you refer to BMW, employs 23,000 of your red MAGA cap partners.
 
Mycroft said:
Trump is good for our economy. Trump could be good for Germany's economy...if they would abandon the globalist economy that Merkel loves so much.

Trump is bad for the globalists...and therein lies Merkel's problems.
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Trump is an accident waiting to happen for the entire world.
 
HumblePi said:
I'm not sure if that was a real question since it was in the post that BMW has a plant in S. Carolina. The BMW Spartanburg as it's known is located in Greer, South Carolina. It's a vehicle assembly facility for BMW Group and is located in Greer, S.C. Not only that, but the manufacturing plant in Greer has the highest production volume of the BMW plants worldwide.

That 'leech' as you refer to BMW, employs 23,000 of your red MAGA cap partners.
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So you do not realize that the they are assembly plants. The parts that go into a BMW driven here are mainly made in Germany and other European nations not here.

I have no such cap. That being said I am not blinded by hatred of others because I do not agree with them. Nor do I try to intimidate/insult them. Funny you did not realize that Germany assembles not builds the cars they sell into the U.S.

I call Germany a leech because they implore us to spend many billions to defend them that they are able to pour into their economy. Same with the world's third largest Economy,Japan.

Since when has NATO become a Liberal icon to be defended at all costs?
 
Mycroft said:
Too bad. She still has to deal with this:

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She should know by now that her rhetoric might mollify the masses, but it won't affect Trump. She would be better off just negotiating.
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This is more like it, this is what Europe thinks of him.

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Mycroft said:
Trump is good for our economy. Trump could be good for Germany's economy...if they would abandon the globalist economy that Merkel loves so much.

Trump is bad for the globalists...and therein lies Merkel's problems.
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So you're saying that BMW should close down their South Carolina factory and fire all of their many thousands of American workers? Wouldn't want any globalism, would we?
 
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