The president warned of a 100-percent tariff on Mattel and said that the company "won't sell one toy in the United States."

Donald Trump has threatened to place a 100 percent tariff on Barbie maker Mattel, after the company’s CEO said it would continue to manufacture outside the U.S. but would be reducing its reliance on Chinese imports.

“I’ve heard [Mattel] said: ‘Well we’re going to go counter, we’re going to try going someplace else,’” Trump said in the Oval Office on Thursday. “That’s OK, let him go, and we’ll put a 100 percent tariff on his toys, and he won’t sell one toy in the United States, and that’s their biggest market.”

In an interview with CNBC on Tuesday, Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz was asked whether it would be cheaper to relocate some manufacturing to the U.S. due to the tariffs, but responded: “We don’t see that happening.”

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    64·
    11 hours ago

    First, it was the Idiocracy movie that started out as parody and became a documentary over time. Now, the Barbie movie is becoming reality right before our eyes. The Kens are in charge, and they are all dumb as posts.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      371·
      11 hours ago

      Those were pseudo-documentaries. Don’t Look Up matches reality better. And the topic doesn’t have to be science related for the comet metaphor to work.

      • MDCCCLV@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        It’s funny because after that we found out that a comet probably won’t do that much damage if it impacts over the ocean.

      • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
        415·
        11 hours ago

        Don’t look up is the Donnie darko of the 2020’s.

        It really wasn’t that great.

        Maybe Donnie darko crossed with Napoleon dynamite, in that it’s "humor"seems to be something that only hits with certain people. Imo it was too stupid to be funny (and not just the Republican straw men)

        • Rhaedas@fedia.io
          2·
          6 hours ago

          I can see its humor not clicking with some people, but it had to be over the top otherwise it would be far too on the nose. Outside of delivery, would you argue that the main points it was aiming for were valid criticisms of Western society?

    • GTKashi@lemmy.world
      5·
      11 hours ago

      I found it off-putting that the Barbie movie’s solution to its dilemma was voter suppression.

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
        3·
        7 hours ago

        There are a lot of problematic parts to the movie that kind of got swept under the rug.

        And then it turned out that for the 2024 presidential election, we went back to the Mojo Dojo Casa House.