Trump recommends 50% tariff on European Union starting June 1

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/23/trump-recommends-50percent-tariff-on-european-union-starting-june-1.html

34 comments

  1. ah finally, im sure he wont flip flop in the week until then !

  2. The art of the deal.

    What stocks should I short before going full steam ahead when he removes these tariffs? 

  3. Aww, did another entity stand up to him and piss him off? Wonder what he’ll tariff South African rugby after getting shown up yesterday like a little bitch

  5. It seems that not only Ukraine-related matters were discussed during the recent Trump-Putin call.

  8. And here we go again, they’re on, they’re off, they’re back but not as much. He is a crass manipulator. When will people realize he a blustery bully and to just ignore him? The Fart of the Deal.

  9. It’s time for another round of market manipulation.

  10. Recommends to whom? Isn’t he the idiot imposing the tariffs?

  11. What a reliable and trustworthy trade partner. Clearly the solution for this is for the EU to become even more dependent on the US.

  12. This is obvious retaliation against the Greenland mineral deal with Europe, which solidifies Denmark’s claim on the territory.

  13. I am expecting something like 50% from 1st June, 75% by 5th June, 27% on 6th June, 10% on 6th June Afternoon after his nap, 0% on the 9th and 137% on the 10th.

  14. One of these is gonna start a nosedive that doesn’t end when he backtracks. Interested parties will decide its necessary to let the real pain begin in a bid to split congress from him and we will see actual austerity.

  15. Is it not weird to anyone else that he always capitalizes tariffs? Does he believe it to be divine? wtf?

  16. What is it with the “thank you for your attention to this matter” like he’s some deranged HR manager?

  18. I give it a week before he changes his mind.

    Elect a clowns, expect a circus

  19. The article says ‘recommends’ in a Truth Social post. Has this for-real been enacted? We import stuff from the EU so I would need to start emailing our manufacturers immediately.

  21. Bring. It. On.

    Hopefully it won’t take too long for businesses to realize that this is the US shooting their own foot.

  22. Looks like trump is looking to run some more stock manipulation scams to make money for his friends and himself. The clawback after all of this will be fierce. I wish it would end in trials and the gallows like old days. But I guess we will settle on long prison sentences and financial ruin for these scumbags.

  23. I’m pretty sure the goal is to impose the tariffs then cut seperate deals with EU nations, attempting to break the EU apart. You know, what Putin wants

  24. Keep a close eye out, if you see Donny tweet out “it’s a great time to buy” throw everything you have at it, and immediately cash out after he later says “i made a great deal tariffs no happen”.

  25. So much for the 90 pause I guess. 

    Just further reinforcing the obvious; you can’t trust anything Trump says. Even if the EU was to “make a deal” with the US, it would be foolish to expect Trump to honor it. Trump would honor for as long as he thinks it’s  advantageous. 

  26. I wonder how much it’s costing to keep changing compliance documentation/ enforcement of these tariffs.

  27. sigh every day im losing faith in average americans, how is this a national emergency to tariff the EU at these rates? why are you always just talking about “ha he will look stupid and will cave” or some irrelevant shit. put some checks on your presidents powers as it seems your president has unlimited power if he deems it to be a national emergency its only going to get worse

  28. Stop doing business with America, full stop.

    Halt all trade and travel with America.

    Stop playing this fucking game.

  29. We are cooked. Everything my ancestors fought ams died for is worthless. America is a disappointment

  30. wtf happened to 90 days lmao

    This administration is impossibly mentally challenged.

  32. Annnnd markets gonna drop, billionaires gonna buy, trump miraculously will cancel tariffs, market rebounds, billionaires make billions, poor get poorer

  33. The MAGAts think that the world can’t be prosperous without us. They’re wrong. The world is better off if the US is a fair trading partner, for sure, and there is real pain to the global economy at the moment from what Trump is doing. But, after a while, the rest of the world *will* rebuild trade to route around our aggressive policies and *will* be prosperous without bending to our will.

    I don’t know when the US will get its act together, but there has already been a lot of damage done to trade, and we are going to be among those who feel it the hardest. We will probably also be among the last to recover from the damage, as other countries are already taking measures to protect themselves.

  34. I can’t deal with this. As a business owner, with the amount of shit going on normally, the abnormal shit going on that shouldn’t be but I can’t seem to control, and this fucking schitzofucknugget, I’m going to have a complete mental breakdown. I had a network problem last month and was practically catatonic by the time I got it sorted. I’m hanging by a thread here. It’s been nonstop between this fucknugget, normal business problems, and just… chaos. I need a vacation but I already cancelled all of my tentative plans. I don’t think the tariffs from europe would directly impact me, but the economic uncertainty certainly will.

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