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[–] Bieren@lemmy.world 5 points 36 minutes ago

He’s not looking for a deal is correct. This is about market manipulation.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

I hope the official response will be harsh. Like China did. China called Donny's bluff until he folded. We EU should do the same. We don't need the US. Many of their products are of poor quality, like their cars(or a major safety hazard). Most of their food is considered toxic according to our food standards. Their booze is disgusting. Their online services are criminally evil.

[–] nico198x@europe.pub 11 points 2 hours ago

EU. Doesn't. Need. America.

Don't be afraid. Claim your freedom

[–] gruentee@szmer.info 8 points 3 hours ago

I Hope that european Institutions and companies begin to use EU-tech. Like I don't unterstand why my uni uses Outlook, Office and Teams instead of FOSS

[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 4 points 3 hours ago

americans have become scum

[–] selkiesidhe@lemm.ee 11 points 5 hours ago

Not looking for a deal, looking for a grift. The stock markets will drop-- again-- and the rich parasites will gobble up more money. Then yam tits will claim victory while backing off like a little bitch.

I'm not religious but I sure hope that hell exists just so these people go there...

[–] johnlukepeckard@lemm.ee 28 points 18 hours ago

Thanks for the daily reminder why I’m switching to EU/FOSS Services, Donald

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 39 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

They banded together to take advantage of us.

Big brain moment

[–] SplooshArmstrong@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 20 minutes ago

As Donald once said "that makes me smart"

[–] tartarin@lemm.ee 26 points 21 hours ago

Yeah, almost terrorism. They refuse to be my lackeys and lick my boots. They want to have a saying in world economy and enrich themselves and they aren't even American!

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago

Every single Republican, from voter to Congressman is responsible for this.

[–] Wazowski@lemmy.world 18 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

All I know is that it's good to have cash for when the orange traitor decides to advance his boss' interests.

[–] Lumiluz@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Cash? Try gold or something like that. Maybe even just plain water, food and medicine

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Nah, it's a dump and pump. You need cash to buy the dip

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 76 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My presumption is he’s throwing a fit because Greenland signed a mineral rights deal with the EU.

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 day ago

Also the eu is sanctioning his bff, so he is retaliating on Putins behalf

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Of course he doesn't want a deal, he wants bribes. It's literally a racket.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Fam, anybody got an old airplane in storage that we can gift him?

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 14 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

What about the Concorde? Fastest airliner and triple safe 🤞 it's perfect for tramp.

Concorde, with a special modification just for him that gives it a tendancy to fly directly into the atlantic/indian/pacific oceans, or into RFK JR's house.

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 12 points 22 hours ago

JD could stick his dick in the aircraft's seams while it's supersonic

[–] Species8472@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok EU, time to bring out the big guns. Someone call Airbus for an obsolete A380 and tell him we will send it to him as a "gift". Big hands need the biggest possible aircraft.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 30 points 1 day ago

That's not big guns this is the big gun. Cutting the US off from our goods, capital and service markets, banning them from state contracts, suspending their intellectual property rights, such stuff. Annex 1 has the juicy bits.

Application would of course be targeted, e.g. hitting all of Peter Thiel's businesses at the same time.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 179 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Good news. Whoever still thought it was still possible to get some slack by kissing Trump's ass are now fully caught up with the reality that he is an unreasonable prick.

Now the real decoupling of economies from the US can begin.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Whoever still thought it was still possible to get some slack by kissing Trump’s ass

I dunno, Trump's ass is probably really slack.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

He's not unreasonable he's just a dickhead.

Give him money and he will do what you want, fuck anyone else or his country.

He is being completely reasonable if all he cares about is himself. He's just a dickhead.

[–] Kickforce@lemmy.wtf 3 points 5 hours ago

He will do what you want, for about 5 minutes and then he'll hold out his hand for more and fuck you over anyway.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He’s not unreasonable he’s just a dickhead

He is definitely both of those things.

He's not insane though (he's not eating poop or giving away money), that's the point. He's just a c*nt who will burn in Hell because of his willful, aware, carefully planned amoral actions.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

That would work only for a short timespan, then somebody else will give him something or he'll have a shortcircuit in his two brain cells and we're back to square one.

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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 84 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Every headline like this should make clear that him imposing tariffs by fiat is illegal and unconstitutional.

I hate the fact that the media just reports that he's doing it without ever citing Article 1, Section 8:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

Every one of these tariff manipulations has been 100% illegal, because the supposed emergencies he's using to excuse them are nonexistent.

[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 58 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Congress has surrendered its powers to Trump. Democrats in congress are sleeping on the job.

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 12 points 21 hours ago

REPUBLICANS in Congress have abdicated their constitutional duties. A few Democrats are collaborating.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 19 hours ago

While shitting on democrats is fun, even if they 100% were all against it, it would make no difference. The American people made sure to give republicans a majority in all chambers, so what dems do is a small piece of trivia. Have the day you voted for!

Democrats really can't do much and you might not realise how close US is to the situation where Trump starts calling people foreign agents or criminals and locking them up. You ever wonder why he's defying courts and clinging on to the ability to send people outside US judicial system.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

it didn’t surrender anything, americans elected turnip in a majority of all houses

the Republican Party now has a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

that’s damn near as much as saying go ahead do whatever you want as possible

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

it didn’t surrender anything

It absolutely has. The he executive has literally no authority to impose tariffs - that's Congress' job. The executive has no authority to not spend money that Congress has appropriated - yet he is

These are easily blockable by Congress and should be in articles of impeachment.

Additionally Congress gave the president the ability to gain "temporary powers" during an "emergency" - and guess who gets to declare what constitutes an emergency? The president. And SCOTUS has blocked Congress from even being able to take it away without the president having a veto.

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[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 92 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Translation: I made outrageous demands they didn't accept.

[–] dugmeup@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

Why EU no buy $TRUMP?!?!

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[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 83 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm so good at deals, I've made probably 200 deals, everyone wants to make a deal with me.

A few weeks later

I'm not trying to make a deal with anyone! 😭

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He’s looking for a bribe

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Mihies@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

And yet, EU might appease him at the end

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Next week he will brag about how he made a tremendous deal, and lower the tariffs as a result. What tremendous deal he made will be left unspecified, but Fox News will use this opportunity to report how great of a deal maker he is.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 day ago

Whenever he makes this announcement, expect there to be a flurry of buying activity in the US stock markets in the day (or even hours) immediately preceding

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[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (5 children)

He made this announcement to give media something other than the "Big Beautiful Bill" to worry about this weekend.

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