John Deere, an iconic American farm manufacturing company that’s been in operation since 1837, has announced that it plans to fire American workers and outsource their jobs to Mexico. Manufacturing employees in multiple states have already been fired in advance of this move. President Donald Trump has now issued a major warning to the company if it actually goes through with this outsourcing plan.
Trump was campaigning in Pennsylvania this week and spoke at a policy roundtable in Smithton. The purpose of the forum was to highlight how Trump plans to boost American farming and manufacturing while protecting American jobs and curbing China from buying our farmland up.
John Deere, despite making $10 billion in profits in 2023, has already begun firing American workers ahead of moving operations to Mexico. The company fired 284 people at its plant in Moline, IL and 753 people at its manufacturing plants in Iowa.
That obviously doesn’t sit well with President Trump, who has made creating and saving American jobs the centerpiece of his economic policies. He issued a stark warning to John Deere after explaining the issue:
Outsource jobs to Mexico, and John Deere will have to pay a 200% tariff on every tractor and farm product it tries to sell in America. We know from President Trump’s first term that this tactic is highly effective at dissuading American companies from outsourcing valuable jobs. John Deere can afford to keep manufacturing in the US if it’s making $10 billion a year in profits.
Here is President Trump throwing down the gauntlet on this issue:
JUST IN: Donald Trump points at the tractors behind him, tells John Deere that if they move their business to Mexico he is going to put a 200% tariff on them.
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The comments came while Trump was speaking to farmers in Pennsylvania.
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