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.”
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.
I found it off-putting that the Barbie movie’s solution to its dilemma was voter suppression.
And the people have simple had Kenough.
To be honest I fell asleep watching Barbie early on. I had to read a summary later.
Okay.