WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday added the 27 countries that make up the European Union to the list of trade partners he’s threatening with tariffs — unless the group takes steps to import more U.S. goods.
“I told the European Union that they must make up their tremendous deficit with the United States by the large scale purchase of our oil and gas,” Trump posted shortly after 1 a.m. on social media. “Otherwise, it is TARIFFS all the way!!!”
Removing USA from my travel list
Just throw U.S. on that list while you’re at it why not
Probably influenced by the enormous amount of money oil barons spent on him, of which they almost certainly did with an expectation of return on investment.
His desire to “Drill baby drill!” and relax restrictions on oil drilling—including drilling into a wilderness reserve previously uninterrupted by man—and his apparent distaste for EVs and green energy, makes it pretty obvious whose hand has firmly lodged itself right up his arsehole.
The man needs oil to sell to please his owners, and belligerently trying to force the EU to increase their purchases is just another one of his hare-brained schemes.
He seems to think that a trade deficit means that the US is losing money. That’s obviously as incorrect as the idea that tariffs are paid by the country they are enacted on, rather than the country that is enacting them, but if he really does believe both of those things, his behavior makes some sense.
Sir, yourope? That’s spelled EUROPE. OK all good? Let me know if you need anything else! Oh diaper change? Already? OK I’ll call Jason and Bobby and Fred they know how to do it. They are the bigliest experts.
he’s just going full Oprah with these things isn’t he?
did someone tell him it’s a game like duck duck goose?
tariff. tariff. tariff. tariff. tariff. tariff.
Donald, you can’t give everyone tariffs!
I wish media would call the what they are. Taxes. Trump wants to tax the American people. He is pro taxes, he wants more and more and more of them. But he wants to make sure they hit the lower and middle class, so he gives tax breaks to the rich, and then passes the cost down.
“Did you just said we have to build more solar power and fuck you?”
Great. In the end, Europe and China are even closer… Voting for idiots has consequences.
Yes, it seems that if he has his way, the whole world will have to unite against the USA.
hope everyone enjoys argentina style 200% inflation
That’s unfortunately not gonna happen since the US has the world reserve currency but it looks like he’s doing his best to change that
The times when John Connally could tell European diplomats “The dollar is our currency, but your problem” are already nearly gone. The world’s currency reserves are currently at 59% US dollars, down from the year 2000’s 73%.
Sadly cannot expect it to change bit it would really be funny if the reserve currency changed to something else like the € for example.
@ America, if you want us to invade and establish a real democracy, just call us…
Best regards, The Germans
SOS
The Germans, circa '40 FTFY
OK. The rest of the world can forget the US for the next 4 years. We’ll see you guys in 2029 if there’s anything left.
Isn’t the US leading the world in AI? How else will the world access chatbots that make confidently make shit up?
Yeah just aim Ai at climate change and solve it for everybody, thanks.
Oh, that isn’t an option? Guess we’re still fucked, then.
Like we did before: We talk with Etonians.
Hahahaha that’s golden
They even made one a president!
“Hello America this is John Henry Eden”
He has found an efficient way to damage every economy and the planet at the same time.
Interestingly enough, his tariffs are slowly expanding to cover everyone that Putin/Russia considers an enemy, and his original plan for major tariffs on China are conveniently no longer mentioned. I’m sure there’s absolutely zero correlation of course.
If we had anymore evidence for Trump’s sphincter hugging Putin’s wrist it would be lost in the mountains of that which already exists.
He is an efficient expert… in demolition. We should make a top 10 list. Including Putin, Bashar-Al-Assad, Musk and others.
Edi: sorry, just realised that Putin and Al-Assad fall in another special category.
Interesting he’s had the idea to force the world to become less dependent on trade with the US
Kinda thought of all things he wouldn’t want to risk reducing the value of the dollar like that
Edit: won’t this also make the prospect of moving more global businesses abroad more appealing?
I’d say “dew it”!
Let’s see if your top-secret-paperwork dumpsite mar-a-lago can pay for it’s flowers and Gouda cheese selections… And how long 'till it will serve domestic boxed Florida Swamp wine and “bubbles” since Italy or France won’t ship anymore.
In his mind it’s a trade deficit that the EU refuses to buy the US’ chlorine drowned chickens, or make their own coca cola without corn syrup…
So, not to detract from your overall point, but apparently there’s functionally no difference between soda sweetened with sugar and corn syrup. The reason why is after a month or so of sitting on the shelf the acidity of a carbonated drink has converted all the sucrose (table sugar) into a 50/50 mix of glucose and fructose. Corn syrup is a 45/55 mix of glucose and fructose.
So while a corn syrup sweetened coke would have ~5% more fructose than one sweetened by sugar, the difference is so minuscule as to be effectively identical. In other contexts (such as in baked goods, candies, or non-carbonated drinks) there is a difference between using sugar and corn syrup, it’s just in the specific case of carbonated drinks that it doesn’t matter.
Other than, you know, taste. People can tell the difference in blind taste tests. And most people prefer the sugar sweetened version. It’s just that in the US the corn lobby will not give you the option to choose anything else.
You actually can’t taste a difference. The taste tests are between so called Mexican coke and US coke, but it’s not apples to apples. Mexican coke is a different formula which is why it tastes different, it’s not just corn syrup replaced with sugar. For instance Mexican coke has less than half the sodium of US coke. People prefer the Mexican formula, not the sugar.
Edit: for comparison here’s the nutrition label of Mexican coke and US coke. Notice the sodium and carbohydrate quantities. The formulas are different, it’s like comparing Sprite and Sierra Mist, they’re a similar flavor but ultimately different.
You can also just watch this: https://youtu.be/NY66qpMFOYo
It explains all of this and debunks every possible argument for why sugar might be better than corn syrup in soda.
Big corn would never lie. Line goes up.
I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make. None of this is based on anything claimed by the corn industry but rather on a series of studies that were done (technically one paper followed by a paper by a different group refuting that paper due to it overlooking an important detail).
For a pretty good explanation of all of this check this video out: https://youtu.be/NY66qpMFOYo
No need to read, I am a good American and will consume my daily quota of 40 servings of grains.
Can someone just declare war on us already and end your suffering
Mr Cheetos has an interesting view on free market.
