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

Not to mention the very simple fact that it is US citizens who pay the tariffs. The more the EU and others stick their heels in and let Trump raise the tariffs to whatever he wants, it will affect the US population far more than anyone else, because while all countries have tariffs raised on US goods, the US has tariffs raised on everything from every other country.

Short term, the EU and others can increase trade with each other to try best offset the effect of tariffs as much as possible, but the US won't have that option because they're imposing tariffs against everybody.

So yes, there could be a lot of upheaval in the short term. But a) it'll hurt the US far more and could force a lot of pressure on Trump to roll back, and b) the EU et al don't have to outlast a decade of economic uncertainty like from 2008. They just have to outlast Trump.

Dig the f*ck in and tell the orange c*nt to f*ck the f*ck off. Whatever you give him, he'll change his mind a month later and want more. F*ck off.

What impacts? He do a uturn like he has every single time while his cohorts game the markets on insider info

Trump Always Chickens Out

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I'm assuming that it's because nasty Europe signed a deal with Greenland for the local products before he did.

Our frog friend will be along in a minute to explain how he didn’t actually say the photos were from South Africa, he just presented them without comment…well except repeating the word “death” over and over.

It's Trump, he could have been having a dump this morning browsing his iPhone and he got a cookie notification on his iPhone from an EU site and then his iPhone restarted for a forced update. Then he stood up off the sofa and vowed vengeance on apple and the EU.

Or during his crypto dinner last night someone bet him he couldn't tank the markets today. Or maybe someone there showed him his new iPhone made in india etc...

Trying to understand Trump's reasoning when he has absolutely no clue how the real world works is a waste of time.

yeah those nasty Greenlanders and so mean Europeans got there first…you know the EU and Greenland were set up just to screw donnie vonshitzinpants…so now its tariff time!

anyway has he taken the new qatar grift plane for a spin yet?be wild handy for a spin down to florida to the weekender,he can check out the super-size gold shitters on board…

Quite remarkable the US has threatened a blanket 50% tariff on the EU starting in two weeks and global indices are down a mere 0.5 - 1.5%. I.e. if you opened you’re trading account having not read the news, you’d shrug and close it again without much thought.

I assume this means the market is pricing in heavily that this is another ‘threat’ which will never actually go anywhere.

You probably regurgitated the same nonsense at Brexit time. Yawn…………..

Seriously the Orange Bollocks and his Regressive Cowardly Friends are the sole issue and the only thing that makes them back down is consequences. They'll only act sensible when others wait them out and they buckle under the pressure just like with China. This is not an EU issue its the republicult and their idiot friends issue.

Which, judging by their previous posts about Brexit over the years, is outside the EU and a vassal state of the UK.

EU Exports to the US as % of GDP by Country:

Ireland: 17.3%

Slovenia: 8.7%

Slovakia: 5.8%

Hungary: 5.6%

Belgium: 4.1%

Germany: 3.4%

Austria: 3.3%

Italy: 3.2%

Sweden: 2.9%

Finland: 2.7%

Netherlands: 2.6%

Estonia: 2.5%

Lithuania: 2.4%

Denmark: 2.3%

Czechia: 2.3%

Portugal: 2.1%

France: 1.9%

Poland: 1.5%

Latvia: 1.5%

Bulgaria: 1.3%

Spain: 1.2%

Croatia: 1.1%

Romania: 0.9%

Greece: 0.9%

Malta: 0.9%

Luxembourg: 0.8%

Cyprus: 0.2%

The problem with Irish people saying the EU should "hit back" or "suck it up" is the inequity in which countries take the heavy hit.

There is one country whose economy ends up totally exposed - that is Ireland. We are looking at collapse in exports, mass unemployment and a collapse in tax revenue.

I can't see how any Irish person would think it's OK for Ireland to be wrecked so long as the EU is standing up to Trump. It might be ok if you're a Spaniard.