Trump threatened John Deere. It’s just his latest attempt to bully a legendary American company
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Apple, General Motors, John Deere and Facebook have at least two things in common: They’re iconic US companies and they’ve faced the wrath of Donald Trump.
Apple, General Motors, John Deere and Facebook have at least two things in common: They’re iconic US companies and they’ve faced the wrath of former President Donald Trump. Trump, more so than any American president in modern history, has directly targeted individual US businesses, threatening them with everything from boycotts and canceled federal contracts to unthinkably high tariffs. Deere, the farm equipment maker founded nearly 200 years ago, became just the latest storied brand to get singled out by Trump. The former president on Monday threatened to use his favorite weapon — massive tariffs — on Deere if the company doesn’t abandon plans to move some production from the Midwest to Mexico. Experts warn that such a move would hurt American farmers, help Chinese manufacturers and violate Trump’s own signature trade deal. Bigger picture, the attack on Deere fits a broader pattern of Trump bullying companies when it suits him. It’s a reminder of the chaos and unpredictability that CEOs could face if voters return Trump to the White House.
The DeepSeek drama may have been briefly eclipsed by, you know, everything in Washington (which, if you can believe it, got even crazier Wednesday). But rest assured that over in Silicon Valley, there has been nonstop, Olympic-level pearl-clutching over this Chinese upstart that managed to singlehandedly wipe out hundreds of billions of dollars in market cap in just a few hours and put America’s mighty tech titans on their heels.
At her first White House briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made an unusual claim about inflation that has stung American shoppers for years: Leavitt said egg prices have continued to surge because “the Biden administration and the department of agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens, which has led to a lack of chicken supply in this country, therefore lack of egg supply, which is leading to the shortage.”