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Also, companies are under no legal obligation to follow these orders.

It's going to fall to us as consumers to enforce these orders when we make shopping decisions.

The buying of Christmas ornaments and lights is off limits to me now.

It's going to fall to us as consumers to enforce these orders when we make shopping decisions.

Let us know how that goes, because it's worked so well in the past.

This isn't necessarily directed at you, but here's the problem: I've had friends and family members swear off foreign-made goods. I go through whatever room we are in , such as their living room, home office, dining room/kitchen, and I point out all of the things made overseas. TVs, lamps, wall clocks, even furniture, small appliances, computers, phones, etc.

I then tell them "today Is Friday. You now care about where the stuff you buy is made. But you didn't care yesterday. And the thousands of days prior to today. So I don't believe you, because if you truly cared, your room or your house wouldn't be full of foreign-made goods.

You are only caring right now, because somebody told you to care, whether that was some empty talking head on TV or some politician desperately trying to get you to vote for them."

And if you want to call me a hypocrite, that's fine, I am one. But in my main house, I have over the years tried to buy locally, or at least within the States, and that has been mostly furniture and clothes.

But my son and his family, they are going to do Ikea for furniture going by their registry, or Target or whatever, and that's because it's what they can afford. My youngest daughter as well - my oldest is stationed in Europe, so it's a moot point.

Sorry, that's going to upset some folks, but either you are already committed to this endeavor, and you have been for years, or you're not. Just because Donald Trump dropped a tweet does not instantly make you a "BUY AMERICAN" fan. You should have been a "BUY AMERICAN" fan long before Trump's little tweets today, but obviously there's not enough Americans willing to give up cheap stuff, either because they can't, or because they don't care.

I don’t buy anything that is made in China. It’s difficult sometimes and sometimes you just have to go without.

American companies have had a year or more to consider moving operations from China. Those that have not responded should have their CEO’s looking for space in a San Francisco homeless shelter.