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

Penn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123342074#Comment_123342074

That's the advantage of the 90 days. Time for the EU to start making proper plans and have them ready if Trump decides to do it again.

riddles

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123341921#Comment_123341921

I think he’s compounding his errors with China. The year of the snake and all that!

A Dub in Glasgo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123342074#Comment_123342074

Surely everyone is happy but being happy at the backtrack does not mean the people who voted for this child and support this child are not f wits

greenfield21

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123342074#Comment_123342074

There's more of a cult on here than there is supporting Trump. Same posters for the last 10 years rambling on, they dont have a clue what they want now. We are at the stage where they are actively supporting China, one of the most anti-democratic, anti-free trade and anti-globalist country in the world. Everyone seems to be forgetting it is an authoritarian state.🤣

kneemos

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123342074#Comment_123342074

"Big Pharma" paid five and a half billion in corporation tax last year. Handouts are working.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123341972#Comment_123341972

That's most Irish people on social media screwed if they want to visit that basket case country. I hate Israel more than anything but some of my heroes are Jews!

My name is URL

Any republicans still backing him by this time tomorrow should be treated with utter suspicion. I can hardly believe that there is anyone in his orbit that still thinks that what he is doing is the right thing.

Let alone the U-Turn; they can play that off as part of the deal.

golfball37

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123342109#Comment_123342109

Same attitude was taken with stamp duty. The 2007 election campaign looks very embarrassing now in hindsight. This pharma money is going sooner than we think and I think we should be grown up about it.

SaoPaulo41

Bbc unsure if EU are included.

But we have some questions.

• It's not clear if this reprieve applies to the EU, which today approved retaliatory tariffs against the US. A shouted question at the White House press "gaggle" went unanswered
• We're not sure if Canada and Mexico are included in this 10% rate - especially since Canada's retaliatory tariffs came into effect this morning
• It's not clear how this interacts with tariffs already in place, such as the 25% tariffs on foreign steel, aluminium and car parts

Comments made by Trump to the press just now at a Nascar event didn't clarify these questions.

trashcan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123341805#Comment_123341805

Saw a joke on Facebook today. How many MAGA members does it take to change a lightbulb ? None. They’ll trust Trump when he tells them it’s fixed, and applaud in the darkness.

SaoPaulo41

RTE news : An 'extraordinary' post and the big initial questions

http://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0409/1506785-analysis-trump-announcement/

fly_agaric

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123342132#Comment_123342132

Not that logic matters a whit with the US and Trumpy, but what the EU announced is as far as I understand the response to the metals and vehicles tariffs the US has already put on us, what feels like months or even years ago (but is actually a few weeks??).

It was not about his "liberation day" (lol) 20 % tariffs. Any EU response to that is yet to come (another few weeks I suppose, though what else will have happened by then is anyone's guess).

kneemos

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123342131#Comment_123342131

Pharma's going nowhere. They have billions invested and need an EU base regardless.

trashcan

….

johnny_ultimate

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123342126#Comment_123342126

Every Republican should be treated with utter contempt regardless, even before Trump came on the scene.

But all they have now is fealty to their moron king, so I’d have little doubt they’ll continue kissing the ring barring some new unforeseen calamity. They’ll continue claiming he’s playing 4D chess all along when we can all see the man doesn’t know what a pawn is.

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123342038#Comment_123342038

Yep the biggest and most costly damage Trump has done in the last week to brand USA is reputational. Very hard to undo that.

sydthebeat

Trump showing to be weak and flailing around like a fool

Giblet

Idiocracy is fiction again, because it didn't go far enough.

VinLieger

Most commentators agreeing this is all due to the bond market being about to collapse if he kept going how he was.

aloyisious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123341955#Comment_123341955

This is after the post from Trump on Truth Social yesterday that he had spoken with South Korea's acting president about various issues.

"I just had a great call with the Acting President of South Korea. We talked about their tremendous and unsustainable Surplus, Tariffs, Shipbuilding, large scale purchase of U.S. LNG, their joint venture in an Alaska Pipeline, and payment for the big time Military Protection we provide to South Korea," he said in the post. "They began these Military payments during my first term, Billions of Dollars, but Sleepy Joe Biden, for reasons unknown, terminated the deal. That was a shocker to all!" he continued. 

"In any event, we have the confines and probability of a great DEAL for both countries. Their top TEAM is on a plane heading to the U.S., and things are looking good. We are likewise dealing with many other countries, all of whom want to make a deal with the United States. Like with South Korea, we are bringing up other subjects that are not covered by Trade and Tariffs, and getting them negotiated also. ‘ONE STOP SHOPPING’ is a beautiful and efficient process!!!" the president declared in the post. 

"China also wants to make a deal, badly, but they don’t know how to get it started. We are waiting for their call. It will happen! GOD BLESS THE USA," he concluded.

pad406

Undoubtedly they will frame this as the biggest most beautiful win of all times masterminded by the best, most loved by all, dealmaker in history 😁

I pity all the foreign trade negotiating teams that will have to deal with them. Maybe they should all bring some books to help explain things to the US team

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123342233#Comment_123342233

Most commentators knew that would happen before he started this crap.

Even most of us lay people knew.

aloyisious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123341947#Comment_123341947

US President Donald Trump has abruptly backed down on his tariffs on most nations for 90 days but raised his tax rate on Chinese imports to 125%.

US treasury secretary Scott Bessent told reporters that Mr Trump was pausing his so-called “reciprocal” tariffs on most of the country’s biggest trading partners, but maintaining his 10% tariff on nearly all global imports.

Cluedo Monopoly

Simon Harris on a junket.

My name is URL

I wonder if Trump is at least smart enough to see that he was used by far more successful and richer business people

castletownman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123342272#Comment_123342272

I hope wannabe high school jock Vance doesn't flush his head in the toilet and steal his lunch money like you see the bullies do on the telly.

SaoPaulo41

Baseline 10% tariff applies to all except China, Mexico and Canadapublished at 21:1321:13Breaking

We can report that tariffs above 10% are paused for 90 days for everyone except China, Mexico and Canada.

That 10% tariff rate is the "baseline" that came into effect on 5 April.

That rate was never applied to Canada or Mexico, and neither country is getting a 10% baseline tariff now, the White House official says.

The tariffs that were placed on Canada and Mexico to ostensibly fight the fentanyl crisis remain unchanged: US-Mexico-Canada agreement trade is tariff-free, the White House official says, and non-USMCA trade is tariffed at 25%

Mental Mickey

Please delete

Mental Mickey

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123342302#Comment_123342302

That's hilarious

Wolf359f

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123342086#Comment_123342086

Hold the ships while they 'search' them for fentanyl. Sounds like a good excuse.