Donald Trump announces plans to hit the UK, Denmark and other European countries with a 10% tariff on “all or any goods” exported to the US from 1 February
In a post on Truth Social, the US president says these will remain in place until “such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland”
So he’s declaring a trade war about Iceland. Good luck doing this with the largest trading block in the world.
Greenland, but it’s not all that surpricing. Everytime this toddler doesn’t get his toys, he screams “tarrifs!”
Oh god, I’m sorry! Greenland of course. For now, at least.
It’s an understandable mistake. Whoever named those places was a dick.
Alright I just won’t buy stuff from America like I already have been for like the last 11 months
It’s the other way, tariffs on import to the US.
Ok, I will continue to not sell goods to the states then.
No, no, that’s the point. You should sell them even more (at a higher price).
? why would someone do that, we don’t get those tariffs.
Hell why would any non us entity want to give money in any way to trump?
So that they get so deep into recession that they cannot lie their way out of it? But you make a valid counterpoint.
For now. Let’s hope EU leadership has grown a spine since last time :)))
There have been some reports in the last 48 hours that they are talking about scrapping the trade deal with the US (rather than ratifying it as they had been scheduled to do).
It would be a reasonable move, especially since Trump never honours his agreements anyway.
Trump again plays the dumbest card available
He’s redefining the phrase “playing the Trump Card” to mean the worst possible thing you can do.
It’s ruined euchre for me
Thanks, Obama!
Would unironically be the funniest way to cement his legacy.
This man’s stupidity has no boundaries.
"Donald Trump, who says on Truth Social that the US has subsidised Denmark and the European Union for many years by not charging them tariffs.”
This is legitimately what the conservatives believe, that the EU is “free riding” on bailouts by the US.
If he’s stupid then what’s that say about us?
Tariffs are taxes on the importer, not the exporter. They are taxing themselves
By making the American poor people pay them, they transfer more wealth to the captital class by contracting out jobs to their buddies. Also, it huts sales for the exporters, so its win win for him.
Capitalism doesn’t scale well with democracy.
They are a de facto consumption tax which disproportionately affect the less well off.
Impose tarrifs. Crash businesses. Buy up businesses. Lift tarrifs. Profit.
Exactly
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/
americans have been getting stupider, by design. education has been defunded and shat upon for many years by republicans talking about “critical thinking is bad” and “we need mandatory jesus in schools” in order to make your kids as dumb as possible, because it takes a special kind of stupid to vote republican, which is the ultimate goal.
yes, a disturbingly large percentage of americans are fucking paralyzingly stupid. we have a racist, rapist pedophile con man in the white house, and legions of sheep, pledging their undying loyalty to it. why? because they’re fucking stupid
Don’t assume the people who didn’t vote for him are apart of the stupid.
We know how many of these idiots are. 71+ Million.
Oh you sweet, simple child…
Edit: I made them mad…
Thanks for posting that, they’re blocked.
Gotta love when you get personal hate mail
Right?
“apart” has almost an opposite meaning to “a part” in this context, though “apart from” would make more sense than “apart of.”
I didn’t ask for a grammar nazi, thank you. There’s already enough nazism around.
Seems like you’re a part of it, unfortunately.
I didn’t vote for him, so fuck you.
I see what you did there.
Types out the opposite of what they meant
Gets corrected and has a tantrum
…calls antifascists nazis
Hmmmmm
So his response is to tax Americans, 3d chess right there
More like 1D. The only tools he knows are tariffs and troops.
1 tiny D
He also knows CAPS LOCK.
No country ever in the history of trade itself would ever give up land or risk war over a 10% tariff.
In fact, 10% is pretty pathetic even compared to Trump’s other tariffs. I’m wondering if this is his way of pretending to care about Greenland while not actually doing anything majorly impactful.
Carpet ban of US/foreign tech in EU/UK. With per-company issued licenses afterwards.
Social media specifically. This would be a major pain for the US.
perfect time to advertise the fediverse software :)
I would if I still had a reddit account.
A disgrace. This has to be fought or it will not end here.
Someone got a list of those “other countries” for me please?
Writing on social media, Trump says countries including Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland will be “charged a 10% tariff”
Thank you!
EU is a trade union though, so it’s all of EU.
He can’t tax one EU country different from others.
Let’s say he decides to do it anyway.
Then the EU country with the highest tariff could simply move the goods through another EU country with a lower tariff. All on paper of course.
But anyway, why’d EU even care about domestic US taxes…
That’s what I was thinking as well. If the Americans are as incompetent as they look we’ll see a surge of European exports from Poland or Spain rather than Germany or France. It may suffice to just drive the same goods to Gdansk and ship it from there…?
We don’t have to drive goods anywhere. It’s all on paper.
If the German company shipping German goods from a German harbor actually belongs to their Polish subsidiary, that’s Polish goods.
That still might affect the Netherlands, as we are Europe’s port.
I am sure our Belgian brothers will be fine with it if we say we came from Antwerp instead, it’s only 70 km away from Rotterdam :^)
After all this time, still no one has managed to convey Trump even a rudimentary understanding of what tariffs are, and what the EU is.
Taxing Americans because other countries don’t support his dementia fueled fever dreams of conquest. Yup, that’ll teach 'em.
Here we go, he is circling around back to the same threats and ideas. His Alzheimer’s must have reset him back to 2025.
So, have you guys watched that The Outer Limits episode The Architects of Fear?
Sigh. All this means is that these countries will stop buying goods from the US. Another smooth brained move from the dotard.
This is an attack on the EU and must be met by action by the EU. Start selling off US bonds Monday.
Sadly, it’s more likely that Ursula will answer with a “only 20% tariff deal”…
Europe cannot cut ties with this shit country faster. How is this lunatic still in charge? This is incomprehensible!
