Bombardier responded to Trump's demand that it build planes in America by pointing out it already operates multiple facilities across the United States. The aerospace company apparently keeps factories in places like Texas and Kansas. Trump did not check first.
This comes one day before Canada slaps $20 billion in retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods. Perfect timing for a president to publicly scold a Canadian company that employs thousands of Americans. Really threading the needle on diplomatic strategy.
Retail traders are now frantically Googling "where does Bombardier build things" and discovering the company has maintained a U.S. manufacturing footprint for decades. They will buy calls anyway. Geography has never stopped them before.
The $20 billion tariff package targets American exports in what economists call "a trade war" and what your cousin Derek calls "finally standing up for ourselves." Derek owns three shares of Boeing and thinks this helps him somehow. It does not.
Bombardier's response was the corporate equivalent of raising your hand in class to tell the teacher they're looking at the wrong page. Polite. Factual. Embarrassing for exactly one person in the exchange.
Trump's team could have spent ninety seconds on the company's website. They did not. They issued a statement instead. This is how foreign policy works now. Someone says something wrong, a corporation gently corrects them, and $20 billion in goods get tariffed while everyone pretends they meant to do this.
The tariffs take effect Tuesday. Bombardier will still have U.S. factories on Wednesday. Trump will still not know where they are.
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