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

The tariffs announcements has me wondering what's lurking around the corner that Trump is distracting us from. His house budget debate win only moves it to the senate for their approval. The deals he made to get it this far may be only the tip of the iceberg.

No doubt in the next hour or so he'll go for a trip to the Jacks and tweet out that the tarrif is now either 100% or has been cancelled.

That is the truth of how he operates, he changes his mind at the slightest whim, almost as if he had dementia...

The sooner he is out of office and the world markets do not have to deal with this chaos, the better.

Ahh will you stop he looks a lot more helthy than Ozzy Ozbourne who's not much younger and Willie Nelson who smokes like a choo choo train is 92. Trumps got a good few years left.

Vance won't command the same blind loyalty as the current GOP does to Trump so his power and control would be severely restricted compared to Trump.

Manufacturing iPhones completely in the US (given that so many of the materials to do so will still be tariffed as they come from other countries, and that Apple doesn't currently have the infrastructure and facilities to build those iPhones) would likely cost more than the 25% blanket tariff Trump could put on them.

Dumbass man makes dumbass decision that dumbasses will think is great.

And double the price of an iPhone no doubt.

How can he pick on individual companies like that?

We can't go on like this.

The EU need to sanction the US at this stage.

Trump is an unhinged despot.

The markets are doing just that

Especially the bond one

The problem with Trump Communism is that eventually you run out of other peoples money

No.

They need to be absolutely delighted that they getting under his skin, and absolutely not rolling over for one of his conman deals like the UK had to take.

They need to be wrapping up comprehensive deals with Canada and Mexico and India and anyone else who's willing to be serious about such things.

They need to be having grand summits with ASEAN and MERCOSUR and the African Union, and basically getting on with growing trade and cooperation with everyone else on the planet who will engage fairly.

They need to be selling the European defence industry around the globe and facilitating a massive growth in that space, so we can begin to fully divest from American armaments.

They need to be piling on more and more pressure on Putin and more and more pressure on Netanyahu, independent of America's naive and untrustworthy policies.

Let Trump levy 50%. The Republicans will soon be hearing it in their Golf Clubs and at Church on Sundays when their constituents are seeing the sticker prices on Mercedes and Porsches and on fine French wine and Belgian chocolate going through the roof, not to mention the high-end industrial machinery, technology and chemicals that come from Europe to make American factories and farms work properly.

The EU is more economically powerful than the US, and its time to flex that muscle unashamedly.

If you want mass unemployment and collapse in tax revenue within months then, yeah, suck it up.