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Cleveland’s NBC News affiliate reports:
President Donald Trump shook things up in Northeast Ohio on Wednesday by calling for a boycott of Goodyear tires after the company reportedly told employees they couldn’t wear “Make America Great Again” or “Blue Lives Matter” attire. It didn’t take long for leaders in Akron and across the state to respond.
Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan issued a two-part statement on Twitter, starting with a reply to President Trump: “First, you came to destroy American decency. Next, you came to destroy American institutions. Now you’re coming to destroy the American economy and heartland jobs. Luckily you seem to fail at everything you do.”
Trump’s call to boycott comes after a Goodyear employee told a TV station that the company’s zero-tolerance policy was “discriminatory.” The worker claimed the photo was taken during a “diversity training,” but Goodyear said Wednesday that wasn’t true.
Don’t buy GOODYEAR TIRES – They announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS. Get better tires for far less! (This is what the Radical Left Democrats do. Two can play the same game, and we have to start playing it now!).
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 19, 2020
Goodyear has believed in this community for generations, investing in the power, tenacity and honest people of the heartland, which is more than we can say for this president. #WeStandWithGoodyear pic.twitter.com/0bM8Xax018
— City of Akron, Ohio (@AkronOhioMayor) August 19, 2020
It’s absolutely despicable that the President would call for a boycott of an American company, based in Akron, that employs thousands of U.S. workers. https://t.co/0wI5CT1zjG
— Sherrod Brown (@SenSherrodBrown) August 19, 2020
Keep in mind, this is a President who spent years making his own Trump-branded products overseas.
He failed to stand up for workers in Lordstown, and now he betrays the workers in Akron.
— Sherrod Brown (@SenSherrodBrown) August 19, 2020
First, you came to destroy American decency. Next, you came to destroy American institutions. Now you’re coming to destroy the American economy and heartland jobs. Luckily you seem to fail at everything you do. pic.twitter.com/zzVJ9X0ap4
— City of Akron, Ohio (@AkronOhioMayor) August 19, 2020
Goodyear is a 121-year old company that was founded in Akron, Ohio, and has never left its home, opening a new global headquarters building in Akron in 2013. It employs tens of thousands of Americans. And the President is leading a boycott of it. https://t.co/7dpAtSCdGD
— Michael David Smith (@MichaelDavSmith) August 19, 2020
Important context on Trump’s Goodyear boycott call: Goodyear is headquartered in Ohio, a 2020 swing state, and employs roughly 63,000 people. https://t.co/hFvLWvSPf2
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 19, 2020
Goodyear empliyees have been contacting me all day and they are enraged. I do not understand trying to cripple an American manufacturer. Ohio lost 6500 manufacturing jobs this year and Maxion is leaving too. https://t.co/QICvrrwd35
— Rep. Tavia Galonski (@RepGalonski) August 19, 2020
You hear that, Ohio employees of Goodyear? Suck it up, you’ll find jobs https://t.co/ZW6YBK6J4H
— Mark Gongloff (@markgongloff) August 19, 2020
Ohio’s GOP lieutenant governor urges public to support Goodyear after Trump attack https://t.co/vvLo4jdeh0 pic.twitter.com/3niEveVbPy
— The Hill (@thehill) August 20, 2020
Who wants to tell him. pic.twitter.com/cMrvwxbpm1
— Kate Bennett (@KateBennett_DC) August 19, 2020