Jake Tapper Rips Trump For His Buy American Hypocrisy
.@jaketapper: White House calls new executive order ‘Buy American, Hire American,’ but many Trump products aren’t made in the US…far from it pic.twitter.com/YRwz1bDkGi
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) April 18, 2017
CNN’s Jake Tapper blasted Donald Trump for the blatant hypocrisy of his “Buy American, Hire American” executive order. Tapper suggested that Trump should think about “looking into his own companies business practices first.”
Tapper opened the show by saying “The president just signed an order to ‘buy American,” Tapper said. “So wait, does that mean he wants me to stop buying Trump products?”
‘“It’s time,’ the president said today, repeatedly assailing cheap subsidized and low-quality foreign goods,” Tapper continued. “It’s an important issue. It’s one I asked then-candidate Trump about in June 2015 because of course, many Trump corporation products are not made in the U.S. Far from it.”
“As for hiring American, a CNN review found that the president as a corporate head has hired more than 1300 foreign guest workers to work at his various businesses here in the U.S., including requesting 78 visas to staff his two Florida properties for this year,” Tapper continued.
