Good news. Whoever still thought it was still possible to get some slack by kissing Trump's ass are now fully caught up with the reality that he is an unreasonable prick.
Now the real decoupling of economies from the US can begin.
He's not unreasonable he's just a dickhead.
Give him money and he will do what you want, fuck anyone else or his country.
He is being completely reasonable if all he cares about is himself. He's just a dickhead.
He’s not unreasonable he’s just a dickhead
He is definitely both of those things.
Translation: I made outrageous demands they didn't accept.
Why EU no buy $TRUMP?!?!
Every headline like this should make clear that him imposing tariffs by fiat is illegal and unconstitutional.
I hate the fact that the media just reports that he's doing it without ever citing Article 1, Section 8:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Every one of these tariff manipulations has been 100% illegal, because the supposed emergencies he's using to excuse them are nonexistent.
Congress has surrendered its powers to Trump. Democrats in congress are sleeping on the job.
it didn’t surrender anything, americans elected turnip in a majority of all houses
the Republican Party now has a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
that’s damn near as much as saying go ahead do whatever you want as possible
it didn’t surrender anything
It absolutely has. The he executive has literally no authority to impose tariffs - that's Congress' job. The executive has no authority to not spend money that Congress has appropriated - yet he is
These are easily blockable by Congress and should be in articles of impeachment.
Additionally Congress gave the president the ability to gain "temporary powers" during an "emergency" - and guess who gets to declare what constitutes an emergency? The president. And SCOTUS has blocked Congress from even being able to take it away without the president having a veto.
REPUBLICANS in Congress have abdicated their constitutional duties. A few Democrats are collaborating.
Democrats really can't do much and you might not realise how close US is to the situation where Trump starts calling people foreign agents or criminals and locking them up. You ever wonder why he's defying courts and clinging on to the ability to send people outside US judicial system.
I'm so good at deals, I've made probably 200 deals, everyone wants to make a deal with me.
A few weeks later
I'm not trying to make a deal with anyone! 😭
My presumption is he’s throwing a fit because Greenland signed a mineral rights deal with the EU.
Also the eu is sanctioning his bff, so he is retaliating on Putins behalf
Of course he doesn't want a deal, he wants bribes. It's literally a racket.
Fam, anybody got an old airplane in storage that we can gift him?
A bad one if possible
What about the Concorde? Fastest airliner and triple safe 🤞 it's perfect for tramp.
JD could stick his dick in the aircraft's seams while it's supersonic
Next week he will brag about how he made a tremendous deal, and lower the tariffs as a result. What tremendous deal he made will be left unspecified, but Fox News will use this opportunity to report how great of a deal maker he is.
Whenever he makes this announcement, expect there to be a flurry of buying activity in the US stock markets in the day (or even hours) immediately preceding
There will be no deal, he will just lower the tariff. However, he will claim a deal was made
Like he did with China.
They banded together to take advantage of us.
Big brain moment
Yeah, almost terrorism. They refuse to be my lackeys and lick my boots. They want to have a saying in world economy and enrich themselves and they aren't even American!
Ok EU, time to bring out the big guns. Someone call Airbus for an obsolete A380 and tell him we will send it to him as a "gift". Big hands need the biggest possible aircraft.
That's not big guns this is the big gun. Cutting the US off from our goods, capital and service markets, banning them from state contracts, suspending their intellectual property rights, such stuff. Annex 1 has the juicy bits.
Application would of course be targeted, e.g. hitting all of Peter Thiel's businesses at the same time.
The EU needs to give him the China treatment. Calm, sovereign, and let him rage in hus bubble. The EU is way too emotional and decomposed. Then again, the EU is fully dependent on US technology. Should be fun.
I agree, but I think they are? I think every (traditional) western ally of the US are working back channels to no success. They're moving on and finding more reliable trading partners.
Every single Republican, from voter to Congressman is responsible for this.
Thanks for the daily reminder why I’m switching to EU/FOSS Services, Donald
He’s looking for a bribe
And he’s lying
He’s not looking for a deal is correct. This is about market manipulation.
I hope the official response will be harsh. Like China did. China called Donny's bluff until he folded. We EU should do the same. We don't need the US. Many of their products are of poor quality, like their cars(or a major safety hazard). Most of their food is considered toxic according to our food standards. Their booze is disgusting. Their online services are criminally evil.
He made this announcement to give media something other than the "Big Beautiful Bill" to worry about this weekend.
I don't give him that much credit. The idiot runs around shitting his pants and making a mess 24 hours a day.
This isn't planned. Swimming in a diarrhea filled ocean is his natural environment.
EU. Doesn't. Need. America.
Don't be afraid. Claim your freedom
Not looking for a deal, looking for a grift. The stock markets will drop-- again-- and the rich parasites will gobble up more money. Then yam tits will claim victory while backing off like a little bitch.
I'm not religious but I sure hope that hell exists just so these people go there...
Bullshit. He is looking for a deal, just not one that is favourable to both parties.
I'm pretty sure that's called extortion.
And that is exactly why he got impeached the first time during his first term.
He's looking for a deal that is favorable to him. He will give the EU anything that the US can offer in exchange for personal profit and power.
Yeah, that's not a deal. That's capitulation.
No no no, what he wants is appeasement like his idol got
Dip
Shit
All I know is that it's good to have cash for when the orange traitor decides to advance his boss' interests.
I Hope that european Institutions and companies begin to use EU-tech. Like I don't unterstand why my uni uses Outlook, Office and Teams instead of FOSS
Kick the AmeriKans where it hurts. We should stop buying US made weapons and tariff the fuck out of US digital services. It's their last bastion and increase trade with Canada and Mexico.
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