When President Trump said that trade wars “are good, and easy to win,” he hadn’t consulted with officials from Ford Motor Company. The only Detroit automaker that hadn’t come to Uncle Sam for a bailout during the financial crisis is getting to the point where it could really use one now, and it’s all because of Trump’s trade policy.
You might think of Ford as just the sort of company Trump is trying to help out with his protectionist policies. Ford has been a manufacturing mainstay going back to the very invention of the automobile.
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