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Driving While Tweeting Could Be Hazardous for U.S. Carmakers
The auto industry needs to make sure that fear of Trump doesn’t derail necessary restructuring.
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For carmakers in the U.S., the price of honesty is high.
President Donald Trump’s preoccupation with the auto industry was on show again over the past week, when he tweeted that he had asked General Motors Co. Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra to sell or “do something quickly” with one of the plants it is idling under a wide-ranging cost-cutting plan.