“DO NOT BUY GOODYEAR TIRES – They Announced A BAN ON MAGA HATS. Get Better Tires For Much Less! (This is what the Democrats of the Radical Left are doing. Two can play the same game, and we need to start playing it now! ), “hy
tweeted Wednesday morning.
The tweet came in response to an employee who posted a photo obtained by CNN affiliate WIBW, of a Topeka, Kansas, Goodyear plant showing a slide during a training session called “Black Lives Matter” and LBGT clothing was “acceptable” and “Blue Lives Matter,” “All Lives Matter,” “MAGA Attire,” and other political materials were “unacceptable.”
Goodyear gave in
statement following the president’s tweet that stated “the visual in question was not made or disseminated by Goodyear corporate”, but that it asked its colleagues “to refrain from utterances in the workplace in support of political campaign for any candidate or politician party, as well as similar forms of advocacy that fall outside the scope of racial justice and issues of equality. “
The company also stated that it “has always strongly supported and will continue to uphold equality and law enforcement.”
Trump’s tweet may also signal a call to voters in a key battlefield state: The tire company is based in Akron, Ohio.
Coincidentally, the president’s custom limousine, known as the “Beast” has custom Goodyear Tires. Goodyear said in a 2009 statement that it “is the exclusive band for the presidential limo and the standard band of the US Secret Service.”
Trump, who campaigned against political correctness during his 2016 campaign, is campaigning this year as a fighter against what he says is a left-wing “cancellation culture” that seeks to punish or ban people for allegedly imposing words or actions.
“One of their political weapons is ‘canceling culture’ – expelling people from their jobs, discrediting dissenters and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees. This is the definition of totalitarianism, and it is completely foreign to our culture and our values, and it has absolutely no place in the United States of America, “Trump said in a July 3 speech on Mount Rushmore.
Trump’s Goodyear tweet from Trump is far from the first time he has called for boycotts, cancellations and fires of people and a wide variety of products and entities.
Since 2012, CNN’s fact-checking team has compiled a non-exhaustive list of more than 30 examples, which include television hosts and networks, other media publications, Macy’s department store, and the country of Mexico.
CNN’s Daniel Dale contributed to this report.
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