US Treasury Secretary urges other countries to ‘take a deep breath’ and not retaliate

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/02/politics/video/bessent-retaliatory-tariffs-collins-intv-digvid

by RGV_KJ

28 comments

  4. No…absolutely respond AND make your own demands re: DEI, environmental sustainability…Coca Cola wants to sell its products in Europe…well…then you have to meet our requirements for responsible corporate leadership and such….

  6. ‘I just kicked you in the balls and insulted your mother, now take a deep breath and just walk away buddy. No hard feelings, right?’

  9. I just vandalized your town square. I’d like to sell you some American beer you can sip while you realize you asked for it.

  10. “Just let it happen dont fight it…”

    Rapist nation

  13. I’m wondering if any of these imbeciles has any idea what’s in store for them? I mean just at the most basic school bully level, wouldn’t you think it smart not to piss off EVERYONE at once? What do you think is going to happen?

  14. Ah, I would be so happy if the EU corporations found a way to compensate US exports with other markets.

    The “sad” thing is though: the company I work for sells products in the US and it is their favorite marketplace, nowhere else in the world can they sell the same product for such a high price. The HQ is 150km away from our office and I can smell them shitting themselves right now from here.

  15. Thank you for the advice, but how about we just replace the dollar as reserve currency instead.

  16. I would love EU commissioner to do a press conference with a table containing one row, illustrating how much services US exports to Europe and how much taxes we will apply on those services to bring balance. “We will have such a beautiful digital tax for them. I tell you, digital tax is the best word in the vocabulary. And f you, f you is also nice, I tell you”.

  17. The Trump cabal watched The Godfather and thought that it was a training film.

  20. What nonsense. The US doesn’t have the capacity to negotiate trade deals with all countries. Even if it did, it would take years for each one. So there’s not point even trying that route. All trade partners will (eventually) retaliate until the US government comes to the table to remove these BS tariffs. The harder they hit, the faster the problem goes away.

    The fun part is that Trump showed exactly what other countries need to do to get his attention. All the things he excluded from the tariffs are excluded because he fears what a rise in their costs would do. So the easy way to get him to the table is to put export tariffs on the goods that he didn’t put input tariffs on.

    So if you want to get Chump on the phone, put export tariffs on:

    – pharmaceuticals

    – semiconductors

    – lumber, gold, copper

    – oil, gas, fuel

    If you don’t export meaningful amounts of those, go for the tech sector (regulation, taxes, domestic investment) or red state products.

    Trump is a weak man. He crumples in the face of resistance.

  21. My favorite part of capitalism is when government officials demand economic outcomes at odds with the market.

  22. Nope… hit them with tariffs twice as big 🫡 bully his ass

  26. I divested from US and moved my investments to EU and Asian markets. US is unstable.

  27. “Don’t retaliate when the bully punches you in the face, I’m sure this will be the biggest punch, you’ll only have to suffer smaller punches forever more”

  28. April Madness. Trumps holds up his bracket. Which country will move to negotiate first. Herd and McDonald island the penguins aren’t interested. Trump wants other countries to eliminate DEI. He is a Racist and expects the world to obey his orders. His narcissistic behavior disorder is proving a serious problem and creating chaos in the world as well as Wall Street. Trumps mental illness makes him unfit to hold the office of the president

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