“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
Vietnam
SUV
Vietnam:
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
In other words Vietnamese will not pay extra for US cars but US citizens will pay extra for EVERYTHING that comes from Vietnam. LOL
Vietnam will pay a 20% tariff
He still hasn’t learned how they work, has he
More like he can never admit he was wrong
Trump? Learning? Yeah… nope.
“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”.
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
transshipping
Did that MAGGOT just say the Bad Bad trans word? How the fuck are his removed followers not trying to Hang him yet?
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
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
Yes, the country known for driving scooters instead of cars will start buying SUVs that don’t even fit the streets in many cities
Vietnam also halted the expansion of McDonald’s because local street food is cheaper and better.
Vietnamese food is the shit
Bahn Mi every day, so fucking good.
*banh mi
But yes, so very delicious. So fresh too.
SUVs won’t work in Vietnam, not when you have Grab and scooters everywhere. It might become a rich person thing to drive around in those awful yank tanks but that’s hardly a market.
This just sounds like the VN government is just making a nothing deal sound good for Trump. Americans paying tariffs for incoming VN products versus Vietnamese paying nothing for incoming American SUVs? A product that most Vietnamese won’t find useful at all?
Ugh.
I want some bread now…
Oops, wrong spelling!
But uh, yeah, I agree, Trump got played, SUVs will take off in Vietnam as well as McDonalds did.
Trump is an actual idiot.
Not like, ad hom insult idiot.
He is just actually an idiot.
He still doesn’t understand what a trade balance even is, or that services/digital goods we export aren’t part of that number.
He’s a spoiled brat that’s gotten as far as he has by being an abusive narcissist who csn just buy his way out of everything with daddy’s money.
bahn mi is a great name for a vietnamese joint at a train station
Holy shit yes, one of the best sandwiches in existence
Literally banh mis and other Vietnamese basically street food, pho, stuff like that, is why McDonalds didn’t take off.
Vietnam has some truly tasty and cost effective cuisine, and McDonalds was largely only eaten by corpo types just as a flex of how much money they have.
Its less nutritious, less tasty, and more expensive than what the Vietnamese have been eating for 100s, 1000s of years.
From what I understand, it’s all pretty cheap too. So the profit margins for McDs were probably thinner.
Last time I read a breakdown report on it, yeah, it was something in the range of…
A typical street vendor banh mi has more actual like weight of food in a sandwich than a McD borgor, and the McD borgor is also between 2x to 4x as expensive, depending on exactly where you are in Vietnam.
Also, lol, the vastly most profitable part of a McD meal is the soda, and then fries.
Like a drink that costs you $3.00 at McDonalds costs them fractions of a penny.
And… HFCS soda just has not worked too well in any Asian markets, basically.
Thats how you end up with like, Diet Cucumber Coca Cola in Japan, lol, a lot of Asia already also has a lot of great drinks, such as boba tea… and just actual tea, etc.
@groet and American SUVs would break an axle or drive shaft or get stuck in the mud puddles on the rural roads. SUVs are really impractical unless you build your whole infrastructure around them. @Davriellelouna
The real problem there would be gas stations. Even Top Gear used scooters and motorcycles when they did a trip in Vietnam. And the big moron hated motorcycles.
…what? Being good off-road, or on bad roads, is [supposed to be] the entire point of SUVs.
Edit: Okay, okay, I get it. Language changes and “SUV” doesn’t mean what I want it to mean. I’m well aware that I’m No True Scotsman-ing, but that doesn’t make me any less mad about it! 😠
A representative sample chosen from among the replies wrote:
A truck maybe. Most SUVs are just big chunky road cars.
SUVs are supposed to be trucks with seats in the cargo area!
All the car-based junk they build these days aren’t real SUVs, and shouldn’t exist because they’re objectively inferior to station wagons and minivans.
Every SUV ought to be an acutally-off-road-capable one, and the only people who should buy them are ones who actually take them off-road.
@grue yeah, so the commercials say. The ones I’ve driven haven’t been particularly better than sedans except higher clearance… making them more likely to rollover or break axles instead of scrape oil pans.
A truck maybe. Most SUVs are just big chunky road cars.
They’re just a classification meant to evade certain regulations to sell worse cars based on a few metrics regarding things like clearance. Given the point is to avoid having to make a decent car…
Those car-based junk things are actually called “crossover SUVs”, but the manufacturers are now just calling them SUVs, at least where I’m from.
I refuse to call anything without a proper transfer case an SUV personally. Hell, even the German luxury SUV barges at least have transfer cases with electronic locking of some sort. But plenty of crossovers have open center diffs with only traction control to facilitate “locking” it.
@grue yep, I’m mad about SUVs too! I think everyone should be. They’re also way more dangerous for the people around them as well as being bad at the purposes they’re advertised for.
I often say that if I decide it’s okay to be a terrible person and I want to harm the people around me and punish and increase costs to my government I’ll buy an SUV.I mean, I own an old SUV myself (a real one, that I got specifically for off-roading and backcountry camping). I’m just not so anti-social as to daily-drive it in the city.
@grue oh yeah I’m also a specifically bad driver, and live in a super dense hard to drive in neighborhood.
With their weight and the lower profile tires that come stock, and how they’re kinda just like regular cars but bigger in every way except where it counts, they really aren’t. Their single big advantage is the ground clearance but many actually have bodies that come surprisingly low. One the OG Ford Rangers would be great, but only if it had 4x4 because all those RWD only trucks, especially when they have nothing in the back, are essentially worthless due to the total lack of traction. They’re also super long, which makes maneuvering difficult in tight spaces so obstacles you could have gone around are now barriers you have go through. Besides, my BRZ doesn’t explode when it hits a pothole or touches a gravel road and in fact does quite well, even when it was lowered by an inch. Hilariously, unlike many vehicles the BRZ comes with a metal skid plate by default to protect the oil pan from the road.
Trucks and SUVs are terrible. Body on Frame vans and smaller unibody work vans are incredible but most people are too stupid and/or insecure and vain to buy them instead.
Its true that around the origin of SUVs, yes, this was the point, and many could… not offroad as well as a specifically off road geared vehicle, but could offroad a lot better than a sedan.
But, now its been 20ish years, and broadly, manufacturing standards / quality control are shit ass fuck tier bad, everything is desiged to break just after your warranty expires, and are also intentionally engineered to be nightmares to try to self repair, or just literally impossible to do this due to ‘everything’s computer!’ (unless you also want to hack your car)…
… so those offroad capabilities are functionally no longer present, beyond I guess all wheel drive as a mode.
Really, these days, an SUV is just a minivan that seats less people, doesn’t have a sliding door, costs a fuckton more, has better ground clearance, and ‘looks cooler’.
Pretty similar MPG.
Supposed to be, according to markering. Isn’t. I think only half of SUVs sold in the US even have 4 wheel drive. This is fine because in the US most pickups and SUVs are just massive pavement princesses anyway.
don’t be surprised when the capitalists see this obvious issue as an “opportunity” for development of bigger streets etc. ie: profit.
Of course… Ford Explorers and Lincoln Escalade are already being prepared for sal… wait… never being shipped to Vietnam.
He still doesnt understand tariffs.
Never did, never will.
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 to 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.
“we will give you paying us taxes and in exchange we can ravage your economy”
this is a caricature of a caricature of itself. its kind of funny that the literal president of the united states is saying shit like this. this just cannot be true.
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?
Mastodon does that
Oh, weird.
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?
For him to start to understand would imply the ability to learn
Neither do the people
whomwho voted. This is why an educated population is very important*who
Yeah, me bad engrish
just never say whom if you have any doubt ever, it’s really unnecessary in this century
Uh, he doesn’t.
