Trump adds Europe to the list of US trade partners he’s threatening with tariffs

https://apnews.com/article/trump-europe-trade-tariffs-natural-gas-oil-08d762fdf17a0737aa6add3c9382c4bd

26 comments

  1. ahh yes. lets hamper trade with our closest allies because they dont want to buy more of our goods.

  4. Next he will threaten to leave NATO if other members dont buy more from the US 🙄

  5. Oh master of protectionism. Let’s see his fans in a while when inflation will be insane.

  6. This blithering idiot is in such a silo if he actually believes his own ramblings will do anything other than further damage my country.

  7. With nothing in place to replace the imported goods with locally made, all this bluster is going to do is amuse the world and bankrupt families

  8. Why? Don’t you like unbridled capitalism? Don’t you like the strong invisible hand of the market working towards ever higher efficiencies hmmm? Free markets? Competitiveness? No?

  9. He just wants america to be alone and weak. What a weirdo.

  10. And Europe is getting very tired of our bipolar neighbour across the pond. Personally, I would be happy to be much less reliant on all things regarding the US.

  12. Does he want a relationship with any nation beside Russia?

    He’s really going the isolationist route.

  13. Isolationism worked so well we had 2 world wars because of it. Also Great Depression. Almost like being connected to the world is a benefit

  14. He should just buy Europe after He buys Panama and Canada.

  15. Transcript of the soeech:
    “Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you, Europe has been treating us very unfairly, very unfairly. They send us their fancy cheeses, their sparkling waters—some people say they’re the best, I don’t know—and what do we get? Nothing! It’s a disaster, folks. So, I’m announcing bigly tariffs, the biggest you’ve ever seen, on all European goods. We’ll make so much money, your heads will spin. Our economy will grow tenfold, maybe even twentyfold—nobody knows more about economics than me, believe me. And the Europeans, they’ll come begging, begging like you’ve never seen, to buy our American-made pizzas and hotdogs. It’s going to be tremendous, just tremendous. Thank you, and God bless America!”

  16. Trump is the Oprah of tariffs…
    You get a tariff, you get a tariff, you get a tariff….you all get tariffs!!!
    Groceries won’t come down and the cost of most home goods will go back to the late 80s when a VCR was $1000.
    Trump voters, who rank amongst some of the most economically depressed in the nation, have got to be some of the dumbest people in existence.

  17. There is hope that once he starts doing stupid shit that business leaders will rein him in. He uses the stock market as a litmus test. While we know that the stock market is not representative of how healthy a society is, it’s the best thing we have to work with until at least 2026 when there is hope for new elections.

  18. I just don’t understand why they voted for this guy again.

  19. He’s like an annoying 5 year old that learned a new word and now doesn’t stop putting it in every sentence they say.

  20. Time for euro as global currency. Orange orangutan is not reliable.

  21. Trump is a fucking embarrassment. Stupidity on top of incompetence wrapped in ineptitude and garnished with a great big smear of greed.

  22. The US exports over 3 trillion dollars a year in goods and services, if the free world decides not to do business with the US their economy will crash, Trump should watch what he wishes for

  23. The United States is rapidly developing a reputation as a bad trading partner and unreliable ally.

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