Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning added to OP 10/1/26

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

There were £59.3 billion of goods exports to the United States in value terms, which was a £2.3 billion (3.7%) decrease from 2023. Exports to the United States accounted for 16.2% of all goods exports, making them the UK's largest goods export partner.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/articles/uktradewiththeunitedstates/2024#:~:text=There%20were%20%C2%A359.3%20billion,UK's%20largest%20goods%20export%20partner.

Kinda mad that we're still hearing the debunked trope of Brexit Britain striking all kinds of trade deals thing.

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.

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.

Ireland's "reciprocal tariff" would be something like 99% if based on our trade deficit, not the initial 20% or now threatened 50% as part of the EU.

What do you propose Ireland do? Remember, time is linear and only moves forward. You can't go back and change decades of economic development that have resulted from EU membership and US trade. If we somehow had our current wealth and status without the EU, the US would be hitting us harder, not less.

Yeah. Because the United States is all thinking the same way.

Even Trumps own cabinet doesn't think the same way. Some states are looking at suing the government due to overreach.

Trump announced these without any input from anyone in Congress. Is Bessant really now arguing that dictatorship is best?

No reply on the topic of Trump lying in front of the world, pretending to show photos of mass killings of white people?

No?

Just disappear, and then reappear later when the topic changes. It is like debate Whak-a-mole....