Recently an increasing number of corporations have left the US, is in the process of leaving or is planning to take their facilities elsewhere on the globe. It seems Trump's tariff policy is not working out in the way he has promised. Instead of companies relocating to the US, as Trump would make the world believe, they seem to be legging it in droves. And to be honest most five year olds could have predicted that it would not. So, one has to wonder if this was the plan all the time, even when Trump in interviews tries to bully opinions away from the terrible future that is ahead of millions of American citizens. The situation up to May 6 2025:
- Harley Davidson has left
- Boeing is leaving
- Ford is planning to leave
- GM is planning to go elsewhere
- Pratt & Whitney is planning to move away from the US
- Open AI plans to leave
- Nvidia plans to relocate to Singapore
- Google intends to move out of the US
- Meta is fleeing the US
- Many Silicon Valley corporations are in the process of leaving
- Several large players in the military industrial complex have moved parts of their operation to Canada, while Canada is not as friendly as it used to be to Americans due to Trump's policies, while apart from Canada, there are no other options for corporations in this market segment to relocate to other countries for security reasons
I think I may have forgotten a few corporations that may choose to dash out of the burning building on US soil. Also the big German car producers - Mercedes, Audi and BMW - have withdrawn their sales operations to the US. Toyota, Honda and Nissan from Japan stopped exporting to the US too. TSMC's factory in Phoenix Arizona is unable to hire personnel that is qualified to operate their complex systems, while their production is heavily dependent on rare earth minerals that China stopped exporting to the US. All of this is devastating for the common American worker; that lost their job from one day to the other and since the US tariff policy affects every US company, finding a new job is very difficult if not impossible. Trump's administration feels more like: Make America break again.
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| The arrogant, bullying tariff tzar |
In addition, the US is still sending weapons to the Ukraine - in spite of Trumps promise to end that war in 24 hours, the US Navy has suffered considerable losses in its war against Yemen, while the highly praised US THAAD defense system was unable to intercept an Ansar Allah hypersonic missile fired at the Ben Gurion airport in Israel. By the way, the US stockpile of munition is rapidly shrinking and in the future production will be challenging due to the shortage of rare earth metals. Meanwhile according to star reporter KJ Noh, China is running entirely robotised plants in which missiles are produced at great speed 24 / 7.
Because an increasing number of countries is de-dollarizing, the US also has to deal with a huge financial blow, while even China, Japan and South-Korea have recently signed an agreement to work more closely with China and the countries in the (Southeast Asian) ASEAN alliance - this would have been unthinkable only a few months ago. It just shows that almost that countries around the globe are rapidly taking measures against the insane US tariff policy and rapidly are switching to the BRICS+ multi-polar global policy.
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| Priorities aren't always clear. |
The AI corporations mentioned in 6 to 10 in the numbered list shown at the top of this blog post, can not just leave in an instant, because their data centres can only run on a humongous amount of energy that not many countries can offer. Google, Meta and Open AI have recently published that they needed to build their own nuclear based electrical generators to run their plants, of which there are not many around the world to run them, because they are already barely capable to supply enough electricity to their existing nations' networks. So, go figure, building a nuclear plant takes years, while in the meantime China continues to develop its AI systems - hardware and software - at a tremendous pace. Guess what the consequences will be of competing in the global AI race with China for US corporations.
The problem for large corporations that intend to flee the US, is that they have to rebuild their supply chain and logistics, which is extremely difficult, especially in view of obtaining the necessary parts and materials (the supply of which may be restricted in many cases), setting up contracts with foreign governments, dealers, transport organisations and customs, all of which will require a considerable amount of time during which there is no income. If the disorder in US politics has not made these big corporations decide to not go through the enormous trouble to relocate, than the chaos that the Trump administration caused, must be immeasurably huge.
If I recall correctly, the next Olympic games will be held in Los Angeles in June 14 2028. It is unclear how much will be left of the US by that time. Probably half the army will be needed to chase the homeless, illegal immigrants, Soros' woke gangs and drug addicts away from the cameras, so that the US can continue to pretend that they still are the world's superpower number one. It is difficult and scary to even imagine what will happen around that event. The most disturbing thought is that at that time Trump and his band of soulless billionaires may still be in office if all goes wrong.
I can not imagine that Trump and his advisors did not see all this coming and if they did not, DOGE should immediately fire the entire lot and / or throw them in jail, because the literally ruined the lives of millions of American workers faster than one can blink an eye. A person with a negative IQ is known to be capable to wreck a lot, but this tragic situation in American and consequently global politics, is far beyond any stretch of imagination, while I previously assumed that Trump had carefully picked his staff to run the US. This is why I think this US drama and consequently the world's, is the result of a deliberate, premeditated evil plan of which we still have not seen the extreme consequences yet.