TRUMP MAKES MAJOR STATEMENT: “I WILL NO LONGER EAT ANY OREO COOKIES!”

…The label of a Trump product NOT manufactured in the USA.

 

Trump University actually encouraged its students to outsource.

 

Based on Trump’s statements about US companies shipping their jobs out of the United States, Trump has since made a major concession by vowing not to eat Oreo cookies.  This was after Nabisco moved some US factory jobs to Mexico.  Wow, what a way to attack a company the size of Nabisco as a businessman and a presidential candidate.

 

Now, Hillary already has a couple of ads against Trump’s out-sourcing his Trump name-only items to companies outside the US. 

 

But of course his answer when asked why he should be trusted since he already out-sources his own products, Trump answers with: “Because nobody knows the system better than me. … I’m a businessman. These are laws. These are regulations. These are rules. We’re allowed to do it. … I’m the one that knows how to change it.”

 

So, just because the law says he can do it, today, that makes it OK.  And Trump sounds like if he were president, he would just  act like a dictator and that he would have the power to just declare that the law had to change, just because he said so.

Trump has been outsourcing his products for years.  There are even examples from his defunct Trump University that is currently under investigation in several states for fraud.  But in Trump’s former “university classes”, they encouraged his students to pursue outsourcing whenever possible.  According to a 2005 Trump University posting: ““Outsourcing Creates Jobs in the Long Run.”  Trump also wrote this, saying that sending your work outside of your company “is not always a terrible thing.”

 

In the same post, Trump wrote: “I know that doesn’t make it any easier for people whose jobs have been outsourced overseas.  But if a company’s only means of survival is by farming jobs outside its walls, then sometimes it’s a necessary step."

 

 

The private company ImportGenius has searched for sources through publicly available info for shipments at US ports from 2007 through 2016 to date.  The data shows that many products in the Donald J. Trump Collection were imported from China, Bangladesh, Honduras and Vietnam. The Trump Collection includes ties, suits, dress shirts, eyeglasses and other accessories.  Trump eyeglasses are made in China while the cufflinks and other accessories do not even list their source of manufacturing.

 

PolitiFact in Virginia had already found Trump sport coats made in India and they have pointed to import data from 2007 that showed that Trump men’s shirt shipments were made from South Korea.

 

But it isn’t all that simple for what Trump says and what Trump does. 

 

Some of the Trump suits on Amazon.com show that they were imported, “Made in USA” or both.  But the group called BuzzFeed ordered a suit that was listed as both “imported” and “Made in USA”.  When the suit arrived, it had a label showing the suit was made in Indonesia.

 

(Is it any wonder why Trump continually receives “4 Pinocchio’s” for all the un-truths he spouts on a regular basis.)

 

One of the worst items that has come from Trump Collection items that were purchased to see where they were manufactured was as shown in the photo above of the Trump suit that carries a “Made in Mexico” label.

 

But this item might actually have not been manufactured in Mexico.

 

It is not uncommon that a shirt or suit that has a label saying “Made in Mexico”, may actually have been manufactured in Bangladesh. 

 

The item’s description may say it was made in Mexico, but this may just be a reflection of the different countries that a product sometimes passes through before it is ultimately shipped into the United States.

 

The Trump Home group has a range of items, including chandeliers, mirrors, bedding, table lamps, cabinets, sofas, barstools, cocktail tables and more.

 

Trump expanded the Trump Home brand internationally, including in Turkey. A Trump Organization news release shows it partnered with a global luxury furniture brand, Dorya International, to expand the Trump Home brand to a production facility in Turkey. According to Furniture Today, components of the Trump by Dorya furniture were made in Germany, particularly the brass and stainless pieces

 

“Success by Trump,” a cologne in the Trump Fragrance line, is one of the few Trump products manufactured in the United States. The Trump campaign’s “Make America Great Again” hats were initially made outside the US, but they quickly made some changes and today they are made at a Southern California factory and are labeled “Proudly Made in USA.”  The Trump Natural Spring Water that is served at Trump hotels, restaurants and golf clubs, Trump water comes from New York or Vermont, and is bottled in New York.

 

The Clinton campaign has pointed to a trademark registration for the Trump Home brand that shows picture frames and other home products that were made in India.  The Trump Home by Rogaska tabletop collection featured a crystal and china collection with a company based in Slovenia. 

 

But it still doesn’t stop here.

 

Many hotel amenities at Trump’s hotels were manufactured overseas. Trump Hotel pens were made in China and Taiwan and are imported into the United States via South Korea. Shampoo, body wash, moisturizers, shower caps, laundry bags, show bags, pet collars, pet leashes and bath towels at Trump hotels are all listed as made in China.’

 

The bottom line is that Trump’s practice as a businessman is not consistent with his on-going rhetoric against trade as a presidential nominee.   There is more than enough factual evidence against what Trump claims about his “Make America Great Again” promise. If Trump brand customers took the same stance against his products as he did against Nabisco and not eating Oreo’s, it is clear they would be left with few Trump items to buy.

 

There is one ironic issue about all the rhetoric regarding Trump’s imported products, and some more proof regarding Trump’s children.  That being that, “The fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree.”

 

Today, a Trump Winery is listed as being located in Charlottesville, Va.  However, the winery is reported to be owned by Trump’s son, Eric. The Trump Winery website says its name is a registered trademark of Eric Trump Wine Manufacturing, LLC.   But as you would expect, like father, like son, the winery imports all of its Trump Winery glassware.

 

Nuff said.

 

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