Companies Trump has slammed or praised on Twitter

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September 24, 2018
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Companies Trump has slammed or praised on Twitter

President Donald Trump is known for , where he has 53 million followers. His feed is most active 鈥攚hich makes sense since he claims he only sleeps .

Many of Trump's criticisms are , a group he's openly referred to as an "enemy of the people" and . Trump doesn't just go after the press, however. He has also blasted companies like . Sometimes he sends out positive feedback, too鈥攊ncluding praise , , . He's also had plenty of kind words to say about his own properties (though many ).

Using data from and other news sources, along with an archive of , 麻豆原创 compiled a list of 30 businesses that have received positive or negative attention from the president on social media. Click through to see which companies make it into Trump's tweets.

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Amazon

Tweet: I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election. Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.), and are putting many thousands of retailers out of business!
Date: March 29, 2018

Trump has repeatedly tweeted . One  accuses the company of hurting the United States Post Office and not paying enough in taxes. The president has also taken aim at Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, saying Bezos does not pay and that the paper is used .

L.L. Bean

Tweet: Thank you to Linda Bean of L.L.Bean for your great support and courage. People will support you even more now. Buy L.L.Bean. @LBPerfectMaine
Date: Jan. 12, 2017

Trump  in 2017 to L.L. Bean heiress Linda Bean, whose grandfather founded the clothing company. He encouraged his followers to 鈥淏uy L.L. Bean.鈥 Before the election, to Make America Great Again LLC, a pro-Trump PAC.

Nike

Tweet: Just like the NFL, whose ratings have gone WAY DOWN, Nike is getting absolutely killed with anger and boycotts. I wonder if they had any idea that it would be this way? As far as the NFL is concerned, I just find it hard to watch, and always will, until they stand for the FLAG!

Date: Sept. 5, 2018

Nike ran a  in September featuring Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who by taking a knee during the national anthem before an NFL game. Despite the president鈥檚 tweet, the athletic apparel company鈥檚 sales and shares did fine .

NFL

Tweet: .....Be happy, be cool! A football game, that fans are paying soooo much money to watch and enjoy, is no place to protest. Most of that money goes to the players anyway. Find another way to protest. Stand proudly for your National Anthem or be Suspended Without Pay!

Date: Aug.10, 2018

Trump is who practice to protest by refusing to stand during the national anthem. In addition to saying players should be suspended,  that players "wanted to show their 'outrage' at something that most of them are unable to define."

Google

Tweet: Google search results for "Trump News" shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake News Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD. Fake CNN is prominent. Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out. Illegal? 96% of... results on "Trump News" are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous. Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good. They are controlling what we can & cannot see. This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!
Date: Aug. 28, 2018

In two successive tweets, Trump claimed the search engine displayed more negative than positive stories about him and other Republicans, and threatened to look into whether . The president also of not linking to the State of the Union address.

Twitter

Tweet: Twitter 鈥淪HADOW BANNING鈥 prominent Republicans. Not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once! Many complaints.
Date: July 26, 2018

President Trump of limiting the visibility of certain Republican accounts. Twitter鈥檚 stock fell 1% after the president鈥檚 tweet. The social media company denied the claim but nevertheless  after the accusation.

Carrier

Tweet: Big day on Thursday for Indiana and the great workers of that wonderful state.We will keep our companies and jobs in the U.S. Thanks Carrier
Date: Nov. 29, 2016

In 2016, Trump praised Carrier, an Indianapolis-based company that , for keeping jobs in the U.S. United Steelworkers Local 1999 President Chuck Jones  to have saved 1,100 jobs at the plant. Trump , claiming Jones "has done a terrible job representing workers. No wonder companies flee country!鈥

Chrysler

Tweet: Chrysler is moving a massive plant from Mexico to Michigan, reversing a years long opposite trend. Thank you Chrysler, a very wise decision. The voters in Michigan are very happy they voted for Trump/Pence. Plenty of more to follow!
Date: Jan. 11, 2018

Trump sent a series of tweets in 2012 predicting Chrysler would if Obama was elected. He  in 2018 for bringing jobs back to Michigan, and in a separate tweet claimed Chrysler was indicative of a larger trend of American businesses .

Boeing

Tweet: Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!
Date: Dec. 6, 2016

Boeing's stock  claiming the replacement cost of Air Force One was too high. Despite saying he would cancel the order, the Pentagon with the aerospace company for two new jets that will serve the president.

Apple

Tweet: Boycott all Apple products  until such time as Apple gives cellphone info to authorities regarding radical Islamic terrorist couple from Cal
Date: Feb. 19, 2016

The president started tweeting about Apple long before he was president. It was 2013 when he lamented the loss of Steve Jobs and his disapproval of the . He later tweeted about . In 2018, he encouraged the company to to avoid tariffs.

General Motors Company

Tweet: General Motors is sending Mexican made model of Chevy Cruze to U.S. car dealers-tax free across border. Make in U.S.A.or pay big border tax!
Date: Jan. 3, 2017

When General Motors Company announced it would build its Chevy Blazer in Mexico, the decision and the United Automobile Workers union. The president has on imported auto parts and vehicles, a move that GM and .

Harley-Davidson

Tweet: Many @harleydavidson owners plan to boycott the company if manufacturing moves overseas. Great! Most other companies are coming in our direction, including Harley competitors. A really bad move! U.S. will soon have a level playing field, or better.
Date: Aug. 12, 2018

Trump tweeted his support for a Harley-Davidson boycott after he spoke at a at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J. Reps from the motorcycle company said Harley-Davidson could lose up to $100 million after the European Union raised tariffs on motorcycles shipping from the U.S. in response to Trump鈥檚 tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

惭补肠测鈥檚

Tweet: .@Macys was one of the worst performing stocks on the S&P last year, plunging 46%. Very disloyal company. Another win for Trump! Boycott.
Date: Jan. 7, 2016

Trump praised Macy's in 2013 . But he  when the department store chain after the soon-to-be president made derogatory remarks about Mexican immigrants. There鈥檚 no way to know for sure if Trump鈥檚 words directly affected the company's bottom line. Nevertheless, 惭补肠测鈥檚  following Trump鈥檚 tweets. 惭补肠测鈥檚 CEO Terry Lundgren to dump Trump.

Samsung

Tweet: Thank you, @Samsung! We would love to have you!
Date: Feb. 2, 2017

Trump tweeted about over one from Apple in 2013. In 2017, he sent the company a after news that Samsung might .

Intel

Tweet: Thank you Brian Krzanich, CEO of @Intel. A great investment ($7 BILLION) in American INNOVATION and JOBS! #AmericaFirst??
Date: Feb. 8, 2017

Though the Arizona Samsung factory project began in 2011, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich stood alongside President Trump in 2018 to would finish the job. The factory, , will allegedly support 10,000 long-term jobs.

Pizza Ranch

Tweet: So nice to get an endorsement from the founder and owner of Pizza Ranch in Iowa! A great guy and great places! #CaucusForTrump
Date: Jan. 31, 2016

Before the election, Trump near Des Moines, Iowa, after getting an endorsement from the owner. He  two weeks later on Twitter.

Nordstrom

Tweet: My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom. She is a great person -- always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!
Date: Feb. 8, 2017

In a move that , Trump to complain about Nordstrom after the department store chain dropped Ivanka Trump鈥檚 clothing line. Nordstrom , not politics, as the reason the luxury chain stopped selling Ivanka鈥檚 brand.

Toyota

Tweet: Toyota Motor said will build a new plant in Baja, Mexico, to build Corolla cars for U.S. NO WAY! Build plant in U.S. or pay big border tax.
Date: Jan. 5, 2017

Trump about Toyota鈥檚 decision to build a facility in Mexico. Eight months later he for their publicized plans to build a plant in the U.S. Trump continued his flattery of the two car manufacturers in January of 2018 for their plans  in Huntsville, Ala.

Bandon Dunes Golf Resort

Tweet: Both Aberdeen and Turnberry in Scotland, and the soon to open Doonbeg in Ireland, blow Bandon Dunes away. Bandon is a toy by comparison!
Date: Oct. 20, 2015

Four months after announcing his bid for president, Trump Oregon鈥檚 Bandon Dunes Golf Resort while praising three of his own international resorts. The U.S. government to SLC Turnberry Ltd., the Trump company that owns Turnberry, for a presidential visit in July 2018.

Novartis, Pfizer

Tweet: Thank you to Novartis for not increasing your prices on prescription drugs. Likewise to Pfizer. We are making a big push to actually reduce the prices, maybe substantially, on prescription drugs.
Date: July 19, 2018

Pharmaceutical companies Novartis and Pfizer responded to pressure from the president with a promise to . Trump had previously  of taking advantage of consumers.

AOL, Huffington Post

Tweet: The Huffington Post is such a loser--it will die just as AOL is dying, What a stupid deal AOL made to buy it!
Date: Aug. 16, 2012

Trump criticized AOL for purchasing The Huffington Post several times on Twitter. He echoed  by tweeting, 鈥淗uffington Post is just upset that I said its purchase by AOL has been a disaster and that Arianna Huffington is ugly both inside and out!鈥 In 2015, he similarly let Verizon know he thought the company's purchase of AOL

Lockheed Martin

Tweet: Based on the tremendous cost and cost overruns of the Lockheed Martin F-35, I have asked Boeing to price-out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet!
Date: Dec. 22, 2016

Under the 2019 budget for the Department of Defense, Boeing and Lockheed Martin . In June, Trump praised the Lockheed Martin jet, saying the U.S. buys

Merck Pharma

Tweet: Now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President's Manufacturing Council,he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!
Date: Aug. 14, 2017

After President Trump in Charlottesville, Va., from the president鈥檚 American Manufacturing Council. Trump鈥檚 tweet came shortly after Frazier posted his resignation on Twitter.

News media

Tweet: The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!
Date: Feb. 17, 2017

Members of the national news media frequently come under fire on Trump鈥檚 Twitter feed. The president 鈥攏ot the press in general鈥攊s the true enemy of the people. However, he also says about 80% of all American media falls into this category. United Nations experts have warned that Trump鈥檚 treatment of the press against journalists.

Fox News

Tweet: .@FoxNews is MUCH more important in the United States than CNN, but outside of the U.S., CNN International is still a major source of (Fake) news, and they represent our Nation to the WORLD very poorly. The outside world does not see the truth from them!
Date: Nov. 25, 2017

Trump and praises hosts . The president recently said the conservative network  in order to understand what he refers to as the "Russian Hoax."

Ford

Tweet: 鈥淔ord has abruptly killed a plan to sell a Chinese-made small vehicle in the U.S. because of the prospect of higher U.S. Tariffs.鈥 CNBC.  This is just the beginning. This car can now be BUILT IN THE U.S.A. and Ford will pay no tariffs!
Date: Sept. 9, 2018

Trump  he worked with Bill Ford, Ford's executive chairman, to . A Ford spokeswoman said the Trump presidency had nothing to do with the decision. Then in September 2018, Trump tweeted that the carmaker could make the Focus Active in the U.S. instead of having to pay tariffs on Chinese-made versions of the car. The company swiftly put out a statement explaining it  saying such an undertaking "would not be profitable."

Holiday Inn Express in Indiana

Tweet: I am in Indiana where we just had a great rally. Fantastic people! Staying at a Holiday Inn Express - new and clean, not bad!
Date: April 27, 2016

Trump made an appearance during the 2016 presidential campaign with basketball coach Bobby Knight at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Trump then tweeted about .

T-Mobile

Tweet: .@T-Mobile has so many service complaints - a total joke!
Date: April 12, 2015

Trump published a series of tweets in 2015 . He quoted a tweet saying and he later tweeted that he .

NASCAR

Tweet: So proud of NASCAR and its supporters and fans. They won't put up with disrespecting our Country or our Flag - they said it loud and clear!
Date: Sept. 25, 2017

In opposition to his words about the NFL, Trump tweeted that and its fans for not protesting. He referred to the organization in 2018 

Time Warner Cable

Tweet: Time Warner cable out AGAIN in Manhattan - no television. They have a real problem!
Date: May 10, 2014

Before he was president, Trump complained about his Time Warner Cable service in New York. He tweeted years later that he . Still, AT&T .

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