Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 18/03/25

thatsdaft

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123260778#Comment_123260778

Putting aside for minute that Champagne can only be made in certain region of France

Them producers in US are also suffering from their customers outside US just flat out boycotting American products

EU should respond with 400% tarrif on Teslas

thatsdaft

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123260819#Comment_123260819

still waaaay above highest price under Biden

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123260824#Comment_123260824

Tesla doesn't export cars from the US to the EU or China.

EU producers aren't short of new market, the new RCEP block in Asia has a rising consumer base that will more than compensate for losing US buyers in the long term.

thatsdaft

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123260833#Comment_123260833

doesn’t matter then directly target their sub companies and factories in EU

Trump and musk can’t complain as they want a world where agreements don’t matter and neither does rule of law

Sleepy

EU should respond with car safety legislation that BANS Teslas. Shouldn't be that difficult, they're shoddily built and full of buggy software as they are. A bill preventing the sale of cars that can have software updates pushed to them from outside the EU as a means of protecting us from "International Terrorists" could work perfectly if worded just right…

thatsdaft

Or tie up the companies of Trump and his band of oligarchs in courts for years and years creating so much uncertainty investors flee them

Trump can’t complain as he loves uncertainty and is creating tons of it

twinytwo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123260801#Comment_123260801

He seems to struggle to realise that there is no tariff related money "pouring into the US". It is literally their own money…..

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123260835#Comment_123260835

Why, they're playing by single market rules.

It's the likes of X that could certainly be targeted for political interference.

thatsdaft

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123260857#Comment_123260857

Change the rules just for anyone related to Trump, these people don’t want to play by rules hence **** em

Give em a taste of own medicine

johnny_ultimate

Donald Trump has an inability to comprehend other countries (and blocs) have their own interests and priorities, because his view of the world is so aggressively shallow and narrow. 'Bow to America or else' is as far as his diplomacy goes.

The only way this ends is with grown-up negotiation (unlikely) or with his own base starting to push back as prices start expontentially rising (likely). Even then he'll never admit a mistake or defeat.

Penn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123260899#Comment_123260899

"Donald Trump has an inability to comprehend other countries (and blocs) have their own interests and priorities"

As evident by how he keeps insisting the EU was formed to damage the US. It was formed to make trading easier between European countries, keep regulations standardised (again, to make trading easier), and to negotiate better deals with all non-EU countries (which includes but is not specifically about the US).

But there has always been a significant level of American exceptionalism which prevails in the US, and that would certainly tie in with a narcissist like Trump. Everything only exists in how it affects America, and everything should be slanted in America's favour because they're America.

astrofool

Inflicting American wine solely on Americans is a very low way to treat Americans.

There will undoubtedly be a trump wine to take advantage.

Cluedo Monopoly

When do the proposed EU tariffs kick in? What's the date?

everlast75

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123260496#Comment_123260496

"What is about the republican party in the US that so many of them are into sex crimes?"

My theory is that he only keeps those who he knows have dirt on them close by, so that he can control them.

Re Transgender, it's a popular (God knows why) boogeyman, the same with immigrants, at whom he can point to and tell his sheep that he will protect them.

Same with "the elites" etc etc.

I reckon if you surveyed 100 Americans if they ever had a bad experience with an immigrant or transgender person, on average I'd say the answer is no.

Frank Bullitt

Just another example of how utterly moronic and stupid Trump is, and yet we still have posters here saying he is smart, genius, charismatic. He is a wooden block and a pitiful human.

He is literally just using tariffs as he thinks that’s how trade and diplomacy works. A coin flip when you are playing chess, he really is an imbecile.

Penn

Walmart have apparently been trying to get their Chinese suppliers to take on the cost of the tariffs to avoid having to raise their prices.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/13/business/walmart-china-investigation-us-tariffs-intl-hnk/index.html

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123260871#Comment_123260871

Or you could simply not play their game.

Trump put a tariff on EU steal in his first term, so the EU put a tariff on a uniquely US product, Harley Davison motorbikes and it did hurt their business.

China has applied tariffs on US products like soya that come from Trump heartland areas. Ultimately anything we do is nothing in comparison to damage the US is doing to itself.

HalloweenJack

Remember freedom fries?

Never underestimate the ability of sycophants to cut off their own nose to spite their faces. They'll gladly drink American wine if it can be sold as patriotic and be seen as punishing perceived anti-Americanness if Trump would have them believe that's the source of all their economic problems.

Billy Mays

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123260824#Comment_123260824

Putting aside for minute that Champagne can only be made in certain region of France

He'll just rename part of California as Champagne

Checkmate EU

Raichų

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123261227#Comment_123261227

but it will be pronounced champagne (sham-pag-en)

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123261155#Comment_123261155

I was thinking recently that Trump should copy that Buy Irish campaign we had in the bleak years of the 1980s. We even had that Guaranteed Irish logo. Instead of importing EU/Asian cars, tell the American people they should buy US cars (not sure where Musk makes those Teslas). Put it up to the Americans to support their own or face higher prices or large deficits and increased borrowing.

Raichų

Feels like it fits with trumps “mission”

Qaanaaq

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123260899#Comment_123260899

He knows that collectively the countries in the EU hold greater power. Obviously it would be easier to bully a single small European country. This is what he really means. The US can't target specific EU countries individually and the counter measures come from the whole block so are more effective.

EU hurting US really means, EU can't be bullied

pah

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce34ez3vw08o

Apparently, God doesn't want him there. What a moron

briany

I can imagine a photo collage of all the various leaders meeting Trump all going through the same routine of forced jollity and chuminess. Macron's been the worst for it, so far, but Rutte wasn't far behind.

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123261405#Comment_123261405

I remember Merkel explaining to Trump that if he wanted Europeans to buy more US cars then they'd simply have to make better cars.

Obviously Tesla Y was a hot, but no need to mention it's current fortunes.

Field east

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123260923#Comment_123260923

was the PRIMARY and OVER ARCHING reason that the EU - was called the EEC- was set up was to avoid war . Breaking out again between individual European countries. They all decided that if they all cooperated on economic, cultural ,social etc matters that the chances of war breaking again would be MASSIVELY DIMINISHED

thatsdaft

the bottom keeps falling out of the markets

Glenomra

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123261661#Comment_123261661

I expected differently from Rutte. His behaviour has surprised me. The most sycophantic to date.

Frank Bullitt

He keeps saying Canada only works as a state of America, and that they don’t need anything Canada has to offer.

Only this week, he lost his mind when Ontario put tariffs on the energy they supplied…

He has to have early stage dementia.