'America First': Largest steel producer in US announces support of Trump tariffs
FIRST ON FOX: The CEO of the largest steel producer in the U.S., Nucor Corp., endorsed President Donald Trump's tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico, Fox News Digital learned.
"Nucor applauds the first steps taken by President Trump in his America First Trade Agenda," Leon J. Topalian, the chair, president and CEO Nucor Corp., wrote in a statement dated Friday that was obtained by Fox News Digital. "We look forward to working with President Trump to enforce our trade laws and strengthen American manufacturing!"
The subject line of the letter reads, "Presidential Executive Orders on Canada, Mexico, and the People’s Republic of China."
The company's CEO recently joined CNBC's Jim Cramer and celebrated Trump's then-upcoming tariffs as tools to end "currency manipulation" and the "subsidization" of steel coming to the U.S. from abroad.
"We saw the memo last Monday on tariffs and what they're going to do," Topalian said Tuesday. "And I think they're going to be far-reaching, and I think they're going to be very broad to, again, stop the illegal dumping, the manipulation, currency manipulation and subsidization of steels coming into the shores of the U.S."
I remember when the Democrats BEGGED Reagan to do the same thing in the 80s to save Bethlehem Steel from foreign importers ripping off this country and violating trade law. His refusal almost made him out to be a libertarian.
Trump saves MORE American jobs and holds the world accountable for its attempts to rip us off.
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In Germany in the 1930s, the Nazis bitterly opposed the Social Democrats; the Nazis bitterly opposed the Socialists; the Nazis bitterly opposed the Trade Unionists; and the Nazis bitterly opposed the Communists.
When I say "bitterly opposed" it means the Nazis sent brownshirt thugs to disrupt rallies and fight in the streets against their political opponents. The Nazis were a reactionary party reacting against the left wing in Germany at the time. The Nazis built their platform on racism, nationalism, and fear of the foreign.
Actions speak louder than words, and NAZI actions were anti-socialist, destroying unions and privatizing industry. Need details?
On May 2, 1933, Adolf Hitler’s storm troopers occupied all trade union headquarters across Germany, and union leaders were arrested and put in prison or concentration camps. Many were beaten and tortured. All of the unions’ funds – in other words, the workers’ money – were confiscated. Former union officials were put on blacklists, preventing them from finding work.
The Great Depression had spurred increased state ownership in most Western capitalist countries. This also took place in Germany during the last years of the Weimar Republic.[41] However, after the Nazis took power, industries were privatized en masse. Several banks, shipyards, railway lines, shipping lines, welfare organizations, and more were privatized.[42] The Nazi government took the stance that enterprises should be in private hands wherever possible.[43] State ownership was to be avoided unless it was absolutely necessary for rearmament or the war effort, and even in those cases "the Reich often insisted on the inclusion in the contract of an option clause according to which the private firm operating the plant was entitled to purchase it."[43]
In short: Hitler hated unions and loved privately owned industry - the polar opposite of a socialist!!!
@Reason10 You think the name is dispositive? So a sea horse is an equine? a catfish is feline??
Did you think the People's Republic of China is a republic? Did you think the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is democratic and a republic? Are you really so easily fooled by names??
Actions speak louder than words, and NAZI actions were anti-socialist, destroying unions and privatizing industry.
Oh, wait, I get it, you're confused because you don't understand what socialism is😂🤣😂🤣
noun: socialism a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
Privatizing industry and busting unions is the OPPOSITE of socialism!!
@ElwoodBlues So far, everything you've described about the Nazis is a mirror image of modern day DemoNazis. Their whole platform is anti Democracy, anti private property, anti private LABOR UNIONS, PRO RACISM.
@ElwoodBlues Socialism is the government ownership and control of all the means of production. Socialism is anti private property and anti nuclear family.
Pretty much describes the German Nazis and the American DemoNazis. A mirror image.
@Reason10 Denying the widely recorded historical facts only makes you look sillier than before🤣😂
In Germany in the 1930s, the Nazis bitterly opposed the Social Democrats; the Nazis bitterly opposed the Socialists; the Nazis bitterly opposed the Trade Unionists; and the Nazis bitterly opposed the Communists.
When I say "bitterly opposed" it means the Nazis sent brownshirt thugs to disrupt rallies and fight in the streets against their political opponents. The Nazis were a reactionary party reacting against the left wing in Germany at the time. The Nazis built their platform on racism, nationalism, and fear of the foreign.
Racism, nationalism, and fear of the foreign; sound familiar??
