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He’s not looking for a deal is correct. This is about market manipulation.

I hope the official response will be harsh. Like China did. China called Donny's bluff until he folded. We EU should do the same. We don't need the US. Many of their products are of poor quality, like their cars(or a major safety hazard). Most of their food is considered toxic according to our food standards. Their booze is disgusting. Their online services are criminally evil.

EU. Doesn't. Need. America.

Don't be afraid. Claim your freedom

I Hope that european Institutions and companies begin to use EU-tech. Like I don't unterstand why my uni uses Outlook, Office and Teams instead of FOSS

Good news. Whoever still thought it was still possible to get some slack by kissing Trump's ass are now fully caught up with the reality that he is an unreasonable prick.

Now the real decoupling of economies from the US can begin.

Not looking for a deal, looking for a grift. The stock markets will drop-- again-- and the rich parasites will gobble up more money. Then yam tits will claim victory while backing off like a little bitch.

I'm not religious but I sure hope that hell exists just so these people go there...

Kick the AmeriKans where it hurts. We should stop buying US made weapons and tariff the fuck out of US digital services. It's their last bastion and increase trade with Canada and Mexico.

My presumption is he’s throwing a fit because Greenland signed a mineral rights deal with the EU.

They banded together to take advantage of us.

Big brain moment

Thanks for the daily reminder why I’m switching to EU/FOSS Services, Donald

Every headline like this should make clear that him imposing tariffs by fiat is illegal and unconstitutional.

I hate the fact that the media just reports that he's doing it without ever citing Article 1, Section 8:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

Every one of these tariff manipulations has been 100% illegal, because the supposed emergencies he's using to excuse them are nonexistent.

Of course he doesn't want a deal, he wants bribes. It's literally a racket.

Translation: I made outrageous demands they didn't accept.

Every single Republican, from voter to Congressman is responsible for this.

I'm so good at deals, I've made probably 200 deals, everyone wants to make a deal with me.

A few weeks later

I'm not trying to make a deal with anyone! 😭

Ok EU, time to bring out the big guns. Someone call Airbus for an obsolete A380 and tell him we will send it to him as a "gift". Big hands need the biggest possible aircraft.

The EU needs to give him the China treatment. Calm, sovereign, and let him rage in hus bubble. The EU is way too emotional and decomposed. Then again, the EU is fully dependent on US technology. Should be fun.

Next week he will brag about how he made a tremendous deal, and lower the tariffs as a result. What tremendous deal he made will be left unspecified, but Fox News will use this opportunity to report how great of a deal maker he is.

americans have become scum

All I know is that it's good to have cash for when the orange traitor decides to advance his boss' interests.

He’s looking for a bribe

Well, America's foreign policy for quite some time, depending on which president you want to refer to, was still to weaken Europe, to stop it from getting affordable natural gas from Russia. We are just lying to ourselves not acting like we're being aggressive to one of our allies. This is clearly a soft war against people that I'm pretty sure the public don't want to show aggression towards. So Orange Man Bad Sure, but we've been up to no good for a minute. The Neo-liberal era is over with. The pause button no longer works. We are approaching World War 3, where everybody's fighting everybody. We'll see climate disasters. More and more, our societies will become so corrupt with police officer gangs. And because everything is connected, every institution will mirror this very institution that's causing all of our problems. Top down governance with no room for finesse or ideas. Lowest common denominator thinking as we watch the exponential function ramp up at a particular period and blast right off the fucking charts. To the point where either the smaller curve is not observable or the chart is so big that we can't see the largest sector. FAFO poor breeders

He made this announcement to give media something other than the "Big Beautiful Bill" to worry about this weekend.

Dip

Shit

Bullshit. He is looking for a deal, just not one that is favourable to both parties.

2 weeks later: "Europe would really benefit by trading with the USA"