US President Donald Trump told world business leaders on Thursday to manufacture in the United States or face tariffs, in his first major speech to global leaders since returning to the White House this week. … “Come make your product in America and we will give you among the lowest taxes of any nation on earth,” Trump said today, speaking remotely to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.

“But if you don’t make your product in America, which is your prerogative, then very simply you will have to pay a tariff,” he added.

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    I think the more salient thing here is they’ll just tell him no.

    I think Trump and his people are soon going to find that manufacturers need the U.S. a lot less than they think they do.

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      Probably. But MBS is an idiot so I wouldn’t put it past him to agree, probably to get trump to like him thus increasing his power over the US.

      Im not him though, this is complete speculation.

      Just noticed your edit, we depend on the US for our military who are complete clowns, but the real scare is the SANG, the national guard. The sauds are paranoid of coups or revolution so the SANG are stronger than our army. Without the US the national guard is weakened thus leaving the monarchy vulnerable then overthrown.

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        I was under the impression that he owed them a lot of money, but maybe I’m misremembering.

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          I think he does but I’m not sure. But it’s still very important for us to have US support (explained in top edit)