He Seems Nice

Peter Navarro update, via WH pool: pic.twitter.com/39LOq6p3AT

— Ben Pershing (@benpershing) August 19, 2020

Meanwhile, back at Goodyear:

Yesterday, Goodyear became the focus of a conversation that created some misconceptions about our policies and our company. Goodyear has always wholeheartedly supported both equality and law enforcement and will continue to do so. pic.twitter.com/oO6jUg2rTR

— Goodyear (@goodyear) August 19, 2020

Akron, Ohio is pissed:

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

And it's not just the Mayor or City Hall:

Akron-area leaders and residents Wednesday lit up Twitter responding to President Donald Trump’s tweet urging people to stop buying Goodyear tires.
https://t.co/Sc2AW5LceK

— Akron Beacon Journal (@beaconjournal) August 19, 2020

What we used to call a "smooth move, Ex-Lax":

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

The original story was out of Kansas.  Goodyear has a plant there, in Topeka.  Goodyear has plants elsewhere, too.

Here's the location of some of Goodyear's U.S. facilities:

Arizona
Florida
Georgia (2)
NC (2)
Ohio (HQ)
Texas (4)

This seems like a smart electoral strategy https://t.co/3FtwLbTf0v. https://t.co/eEJ7gEiuRO

— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) August 19, 2020

Not many states there with economies so strong they want to hear the POTUS calling for a boycott of their products and their employer.

This is 12th dimensional chess by both Navarro and Trump, right?