Donald Trump announces plans to hit the UK, Denmark and other European countries with a 10% tariff on “all or any goods” exported to the US from 1 February
In a post on Truth Social, the US president says these will remain in place until “such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland”
Oh, no. The Americans are taxing themselves again to own the libs
Tariff the libs to spiderface
If you don’t give me what I want, I’ll make the American people pay me more to buy your stuff.
OK.
Yep. And at this point, any EU company who hasn’t made steps towards not relying on the US market deserves the shitstorm coming their way
Alright I just won’t buy stuff from America like I already have been for like the last 11 months
It’s the other way, tariffs on import to the US.
Ok, I will continue to not sell goods to the states then.
No, no, that’s the point. You should sell them even more (at a higher price).
? why would someone do that, we don’t get those tariffs.
Hell why would any non us entity want to give money in any way to trump?
So that they get so deep into recession that they cannot lie their way out of it? But you make a valid counterpoint.
For now. Let’s hope EU leadership has grown a spine since last time :)))
There have been some reports in the last 48 hours that they are talking about scrapping the trade deal with the US (rather than ratifying it as they had been scheduled to do).
It would be a reasonable move, especially since Trump never honours his agreements anyway.
How’s that policy of appeasement and boot-licking going now, Kier?
Starmer really thought that being a doormat for the playground bully meant he would get to keep his lunch money.
I am still shocked that the party in power is not some ultra conservative one with the way that government administration is operating in the UK.
Well short of a coup or government collapse/dissolution, we’ve got to wait for an election.
We’ve got to hope Polanski and Sultana have got their feet underneath them by then.
As an outsider, am I crazy for thinking the leaders of the smaller more “extreme” parties like Sinn Féin or the SNP keep sounding more reasonable?
More reasonable than who?
The older parties might be done with for now. Labour and Conservative.
SNP isn’t that extreme. It’s actually very very popular in Scotland.
I guess if that part of the problem with calling things extreme is that if you’re extremely far from centre yourself, the centrists sound extreme. So it’s a little hard to answer your question.
The ‘challenger’ parties like Green, “Your Party” and Reform are very popular, especially with the young and the poor.
I think a lot of people expect them to take a lot of local seats and councils in the next few years.
And while Reform has been dragging Labour to the right (with not a lot of protest from Kier, I think), some of these new leftist parties will hopefully drag him back to at least the centre. Just though influencing the soulless polling he seems to use to decide what he cares about in any given month.
More reasonable then labor for sure, I was shocked to see them go authoritarian like they have. At least there is some other parties to move support to that seem to understand that cracking down on the population is somewhat unpopular. Here in Canada we have seemed to ruined all the options on reasonable parties so at least hearing there is traction with new parties gives me some hope.
I’m absolutely certain he’s dying and thinks he can make the legacy he leaves behind ‘America was at it’s territorial height under President Trump’ instead of ‘Donald Trump lied, cheated, and stole his way into the US presidency, thus weakening America forever’
I’m absolutely certain he’s dying
Don’t give me hope like that.
Technically, we all are dying,it’s just a matter of how long it will take.
In the Cheetos case, I am hoping it’ll be less than a year left
Oh, but I bet his successor will be worse
Absolutely
His legacy will be that of the pedo rapist president who throws tantrums.
Didn’t he say something about this being his last Christmas or am I misremembering?
He’s been talking about dying a lot, which sort of keys us in on what’s on his mind since he has zero filter
He’s such a fucking idiot
Not sure we care anymore, since the free trade agreement between EU and Mercosur was signed today. We don’t really need to trade with the US anymore. South America provides a huge export market for our products, and they supply better quality agricultural imports than the US can anyway.
As an Australian I am hoping this fastrackts the Australian one with the EI but our government is so far up the US’s arse, possibly were getting pressure from the US not to.
Anything that brings the world closer together is a good thing!
I don’t know for UK, but I’d reckon most of the commercial deficit in EU wrt USA is gas, not food.
Time to thank all politicians in Europe who were reluctant to decarbonate the economy because it’s bAd fOr bUsInEsS.
Today we count how much money they’re sending Russia by buying gas vs Ukraine by providing military equipment. All good for the business I guess.
Today we assess how dependent on US gas the EU is in time of crisis. All good for the business too, I guess.
In this context, rolling back the ban on gas cars in 2035 is another great geopolitical move that will guarantee EU’s future amidst international tension and resources depletion (oil extraction is to drop by half from 2030 to 2050, and that means producers will slow exportations and use is primarily for their internal needs).Exactly, think of all the billions that have been spent to subsidize renewable energy instead of building insulation, public transport, heat pumps, etc. The net balance would have been better (more energy saved than supply increased) and it would have shifted the mix from fossil to electricity more.
I hate how every news article about tariffs implies that the country is the one being damaged by this. When in reality it’s the us citizens being damaged.
Should read “Trump threatens us citizens with tariff on Greenland…”
The countries are indeed damaged because of it but not even close to as bad as it hurts the US population
I think that the US should be split into 50 new independent nations.
All the Republican led ones will slide into third world banana republic dictatorships that soon won’t be able to feed their own population, bit that is their own problem. At least the rest of the nations can continue to develop into normal states where people have actual freedom
That’s the Republican goal honestly, but they don’t seem to understand the eventual ramifications. Without blue states to prop them up financially, what’s going to happen? They get to be dictators of dirt piles. The poor folks who can’t flee the state will stay and their lives will become hell. A few libertarians might move in, so they can start child prostitution ranches or whatever lights their fire. More or less anarchy, like dual authoritarian/libertarian path that Trump is laying out. Just… scary to think about. I’ll have to abandon my beloved historic home in the South, but also, would be nice to not look at a homeless guy sleeping under cardboard a block away (it’s 34* F) because these morons won’t pass a single tax to improve things. Sigh.
We gotta launch a #FreeCalifornia hashtag or something
That should read, Trump plans to punish Americans by adding taxes on trade with countries unwilling to abide by his tantrums
It’s one man’s war against the world and we could treat it like that rather than respond to the USA we should use trident, remove the Nukes from the missile and load with tungsten rods, then use it like oreshnik as a ICBM sniper rifle to take out Trump. Surface off the coast and turn Mar a lago into a crater. It’s a huge waste of resources to do anything else.
It’s more than “one man”, even though he is a major contributor to the chaos.
There are a lot of other horrble people standing in the shadows pulling Trump’s puppet strings.
Sounds to me like the UK should just drop all the agreements it made to avoid tariffs and give trumpler a solid kick in the balls.
Mans dead set on ruining the American economy huh?
Just the American economy!? The entire global order has been upended
Every country who does not want to be a target for the US needs to urgently develop a nuclear arsenal with intercontinental delivery systems. The world is currently at the mercy of an 80 year old narcissistic toddler for the second time in less than 100 years, the only thing that will stop such a man is strength.
France and England have enough to be a deterrent. I think around 500 between the two of them. And France has like 200 on active deployment, I think because of Russia.
Sanction how personal properties including golf courses, hotels, and other industries. It’s the only language he understands
