Britain rejects Donald Trump’s tariffs threat claim of ‘out of line’ UK-US trade flows across Atlantic

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1. This reminds me of Peep Show where everyone keeps trying to get each other sectioned.

2. Trump is acting like a typical school bully, pathetic really. Can’t believe there are people in the UK who like the oranged faced idiot.

3. “In October 2024, the United Kingdom (UK) had a trade surplus of $1.68 billion with the United States (US). This was due to the US exporting $7.65 billion to the UK, while the UK exported $5.97 billion to the US.”

   …So, how are we bad? We literally have a trade deficit with the US.

4. The article doesn’t contain anything or anyone saying ‘Britain rejects’ anything

5. The UK will fall in line because we isolated ourselves from our neighbours and because starmer is a craven fuckin coward

6. Britain rejects rambling, dementia-ridden nonsense spouted by America’s favourite rapist.

7. He likes Scotland because his mommy was Scottish so play that card if Britain wants to get favour from Trumpie.

8. I really don’t think we want to be cosying up to American commerce.

9. He said we’re not taking cars. Have you seen how many Fords are on our roads? Versus not many British cars in America. 

10. The scary thing is, if you read some of the stuff his followers post, they actually want him and the US to be a bully. It’s literally their world view sadly.

11. Non clickbait headline:

    > Trump has said he “might” hit Britain with tariffs as he warned the US will impose levies on imports from the European Union “pretty soon”.

    > He hinted, though, that a deal could be struck with the UK to avoid or limit tariffs.

12. If everyone else has tarrifs and we don’t surely that will make our exporters competitive again. Of course I don’t agree with what Trump is doing

13. Why am I just so releaved to hear this? It’s wild I was a bit worried in the first place.

14. If we havent already, we need to immediately cut intelligence channels with the US. These people are our enemies.

15. Just a reminder to anyone that currently the U.K. have more tariffs than the US as a whole. So does China and Mexico.

    Look into the actuals without raging:

    https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/TM.TAX.MRCH.WM.AR.ZS

    If anything it just moves them more closely aligned – markets will come back stronger after a few weeks.

    China is more severely affected due to certain loopholes in items valued under 800 dollars, IYKYK.

16. I think he just misspoke. If you watch the clip it seems he’d meant to say EU was out of line but said UK then had to go along with it. That’s why he clarified that a ‘deal could be reached.’

17. Fuck this guys deal, we should just rekindle the CANZUK alliance and work closer with the EU. Isolate America completely, let them find out after this man has fucked around.

18. Article doesn’t even mention Britain rejecting anything.

    Amazing how many people will jump on a hate train before reading the article.

19. Trump doing Putins work, while challenging his inner Liz Truss. I can see this ending just great for him.

20. You all dislike Trump whatever, but you can’t argue with the fact the man is getting shit done & actually improving his country. You can’t deny he’s a strong leader, Starmer wouldn’t have the balls to do these sort of things even if it was an option.

    Edit – Typical Reddit, you mass downvote me like you always do because I don’t follow your narrative. Yet nobody can have substantial debate about why “orange man bad”

21. It’s pretty simple. America under Trump needs to be treated as a hostile power when being dealt with, similar to China or Russia. Every deal must be in the UKs interest, with UK interests put first and taking a hard stance against deals that do not respect us or our country. America is not going to deal in good faith and should be assumed that going forward it won’t do so.

    We literally sent troops to die for the states in 3 wars now, the idea that we’re “out of line” and deserve unilateral tariffs for…….. reasons(???)(???????) is laughable.

22. someone put him to bed and wake him up when he’s ina better mood

23. He mentioned that Europe doesn’t buy cars from them,might be coz they are too big and a bit shit

24. UK wants strong trade ties with america. Lmao.

    Are you unaware of what’s going on? Canada has strong trade ties with a trade pack. Trump is ignoring it and coming up with BS reasons for tariffs.

    You think the UK will be different? trump cannot be trusted. You’re better off with the EU.

25. Britain has to recognise that it is the end of the special relationship between the two countries.

    Bullies like Trump only recognise strength. The USA is no longer a true friend and ally of the UK.

26. Trump wants to stop British dinghies stuffed full of beautiful British drugs landing on American beaches.

27. Chump misrepresents tariffs as taxes on foreign trade partners, and trade imbalances as trading partners being “subsidised” because his economically illiterate base has to be motivated to hate those foreigners, and support whatever insane policies he proposes to damage them.

28. Brexiters have put us in such a weak position.

    We have no choice but to grovel with the US and basically become a state of theirs…. Because they didn’t want to be an equal partner in the EU

29. Perhaps the EU and Canada should jointly declare 50% tariffs on US goods. The orange ape will otherwise try to divide and conquer.

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