Donald Trump, Bernard Arnault, and more government and LVMH officials came together to fête Louis Vuitton's new Texas workshop.
It was indeed—and, suffice to say, one that bore little resemblance to the opening of LVMH brand Celine's own workshop that same day in Tuscany, Italy. But LVMH had something else in mind for Vuitton: fulfilling its commitment to the Pledge to America's Workers, a Trump administrative initiative that Walmart and Volvo have also signed.
"Louis Vuitton is a name I know very well. It cost me a lot of money over the years," Trump said before a ribbon cutting ceremony. According to Vuitton's CEO, Trump knows Arnault quite well, too: They apparently have "regular conversations," which Arnault seems to want to keep politics-free. "I am not here to judge his types of policies," Arnault said of Trump. "I have no political role. I am a business person.
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