“Most countries on Earth have what’s called a value added tax, a consumption tax. We don’t apply that here in America because it’s very unpopular as an idea. This tariff is exactly that. It’s a consumption tax,” he stated.
Dump's p*ssed that Greenland signed mineral rights to EU for 30 years. He's therefore lashing out on Europe. No talent as a negotiator or to make a deal.
Why does he always end with, "Thank you for your attention to this matter."? It's not like any of us are doing anything with the information or applying these tariffs ourselves.
This is real going to raise the price of botox for all those plastic surgery loving MAGAs around Trump. (All botox is produced in Ireland). I'm sure they're willing to make that sacrifice.
Bozo the Clown spewing more bullshit while taking his morning dump. Wonder which porn star nurse is cleaning him this morning? Doggone Noem or Pam Blondi?
All those tarrifs annoucements on a friday are just performative bullshit to manipulate the markets... monday or tuesday he's gonna claim he made a "deal" and he'll remove the tarrifs, giving just enough time for insider trading.
Leaders from all around the world have come to the President, one by one, with tears of joy in their eyes, saying “Sir, Thank You! I couldn’t have lived with myself any longer, ripping you off so badly! Please forgive me, and please raise the tariffs even higher to punish my past transgressions!”
Insane! When he tried this nonsense in 2018, the then EU Commission President , Jean Claude - Juncker swiftly responded ‘ We can also do stupid’. He announced reciprocal tariffs within minutes . We all know who backed off .
The folks typing his posts are getting a bit better at faking it, but I don’t believe he wrote this. Too coherent, some big words, spelling is good, and it is coherent.
Yep, Trump is right again. Those pesky European Unionists looked into their crystal ball in 1993 and said let’s screw Donald Trump in 2025. Those punks have been plotting against us the entire time. Damn them! 🙄
The EU "have been very difficult to deal with". Don, you have been involved in more legal actions than probably any businessman or politician in history. Has it ever occurred to you that it is perhaps you who are difficult to deal with?
Some of the booty you grift could pay for a good therapist.
The absolute drivel that oozes from his lips. He seems hellbent on destroying western economies, for what purpose? Self enrichment seems to be his biggest driver and his overblown view of his own greatness. Yes he is a global laughing stock but the damage he is doing will affect future generations.
To a Union that lives and breathes taxes 😅, didn't blow up all trade relationships with other countries, and is quite capable of producing a wide variety of products and services itself...I think we'll manage 😘
All the made up horseshit aside. He’s talking about a deficit of roughly half a Qutari jet. So we’re basically at the point where he’s holding up countries by their ankles, and shaking them to get the change.
When you wake up in the morning and gesture broadly to the universe looking for a word to describe the ratfuckery going on around you, the English language has an answer.
This is all horrible but I’m fixated on these batshit tweets ending with “thank you for your attention to this matter”. His existential threats are going business casual.
Ludicrous. When are business leaders and even Republican leader WHO KNOW BETTER finally going to tire of this bullshit?!
It’s exhausting, sure. It’s also stupid and foolish.
I guess after that horrible bill passed in the House, he thought he would crush the American people even more. Why just be a little cruel when you can be a real Scrooge?
EU, never back down regarding the tariffs. Never let him gain anything . His made-up numbers are pathetic— Trump is an idiot (the educated world is laughing at the clown) …a common topic at coffee breaks at my workplace ”what has the moron come up with today?” …the US trademark has never been worse
Here he goes again. No doubt to take attention away from the memecoin bribery.
He should be locked up by now.
25% on iPhones unless Tim Cook moves the manufacturing to the US. And now 50% tariff on Europe.
His insanity will eventually lead to a major market collapse.
I guess you or someone you know is following DonOld on Lies Social? I'm curious if anyone's tracking whether there's a decline in his "likes" or "relies" since he became Dear Leader again.
I’m really beginning to believe that “Thank you for your attention to this matter” is code - for something or someone or simply a troll on citizens. It’s a sign off that makes no sense in his universe of nonsensical egomaniacal vitriol. It makes no sense that he would ever thank anyone, for anything
Why is nobody talking about F47 who does not know the difference between a million and a billion?
250 million $ is less than the costs in total of the plane he received from Saudi Arabia. Peanuts somehow.
As a UK citizen,I'm utterly sick to my back teeth of the infantile swine currently insulting the position of POTUS.
I've always regarding the US as an ally, but now to hell with it until that repugnant creature is removed one and for all.
The EU, the UK, and Canada should form their own bloc.
It's just manipulation of the markets for financial gain by a few people, but his continued behaviour is repellent and hideous.
The US is becoming an enemy.
But God bless those in the States opposing and fighting the bast*rd and his govt. All strength to you.
It is truly disheartening to see the strong bond between the EU and America starting to unravel.
We used to be such good friends, and now it feels like everything is changing.
It seems that he offers more warm words for a war criminal in Russia than for his allies in Europe.
What will happen next?
What a historical nonsens comes out of his mouth.
And then, he can’t count. The real trade and service balance is just profitable for the US.
When EU gets away from all the US tech solutions, then that is another story.
If the EU (everyone really) drags their feet into September, I predict Trump's tariffs and possibly Trump will go the way of the Dodo Bird. He'll blather something about how tough he was and NOW the tariff situation has been resolved and we return to normal programming. All a lie of course....
Don't cave, Europe. You're bigger than the U.S. economy and your leadership is much smarter than the demented orange rapist. Work with your allies and trading partners and isolate this bellowing fool.
Oh for the love of god shut the fuck up you deluded Orange prick. Someone pleas do something about the constant incoherent shite this bellend spouts. Fuck me it’s boring now
Not arguing the goodness of such an idea, do we really need an app to make a single ads-free, tracking-free, cookies-free, webpage with a plain table US -> EU in it?
I’m thinking that the felon doesn’t know the difference between millions, billions and trillions. Because $250 million is rounding considering the size of the US economy.
A surprise to us who thought its earlier form-the The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), was established in 1952, to prevent another war between historic rivals France and Germany by pooling their coal and steel resources under common management. In various forms its been about defence+trade
EU was primarily formed to create European political and economic unity amongst member states. The main idea was to prevent climates that lead us into a World War . But don’t let the truth get in the way of The Orange Taint Cocksplat’s fever dream.
What about that it makes no sense that for every American buying a german car, some German is supposed to buy an American car? Like why not take this dumb part of all that he says? He literally expects all countries to have trade balance with US. W T F ?
And he's not only acting like a lunatic, he's lying as well. Because his "trade deficit", if even true, is on goods. Looking at services, the EU has a major deficit with the US. So again he's cherrypicking on numbers.
The orange idiot has no feel for numbers, no wonder he went bankrupt so often. Wouldn't you just love to be negotiating with him. I'll write "billions" and he can write numbers. You pay us 1 billion and we'll pay you 1,000,000! Seems fair!
He is so mad that Greenland made a minerals deal with Europe instead of him. He’s not smart enough to know that the U.S. will pay the price for his vengeance tantrum.
You libs just don't understand the genius behind President Trump's economic plan. These tariffs will yield HUGE financial dividends for the United States by the year 3052. Maybe by 3051. Like nobody's ever seen. 🇺🇸 #sarcasm
The biggest damage of all that Trump does to US is the annihilation of trust.
We have learned that a signed treaty with the US means *nothing*. Some "president" will do whatever he pleases...and this will NOT go away when Trump quits or dies.
This is forever, you are framed as not trustworthy
Every time I read "Thank you for your attention to this matter!" I laugh. THEN ... I remember he's actually issuing his own personal 'EOs' to his Administration this way.
Tariffs on +
hits the Global/U.S. economy hard;
retaliatory tariffs by whoever he slapped them on;
job layoffs;
businesses don't come back;
China welcomes E.U. to better trade;
prices go up everywhere;
and stock market reacts negatively = Rollback the tariffs, claims victory.
He just pulls numbers out of his a$$ Truth be known, thr only word he picked up at Wharton was tariff, which none of us worried about before or after him. And he doesn't even know what it means or who bears the cost. It's the one day he showed up in class and he heard the word. Big people talk
Oh that's right! They did. So as usual, pouty brat is pissed he isn't getting his way, & lashing out. That actually makes sense, knowing how his single orange brain cell works.
EU was formed for defense primarily, NOT trade.
EU is already working trade agreements among themselves, and other governments who don't have totally stupid, fascist as leaders.
Poor felon, extortion is the only game he knows.
I'm European and we are teaching the asshole a lesson, together with the chinese and a lot of other countries. It will be the end of american dominance and i love it.
You like it because you are European (like me) and you are not dependent on USAID.
In the meantime, thousands of people are suffering, will suffer, and die. Rejoicing in the slowdown of academic research is also a very short-sighted view.
Scientists won't disappear. They will just stay where they are or going to other countries. It's the price of electing an idiot and the support of the fascist gop. US is done for but not science.
The US is on track to reduce science funding by billions of dollars. No other country is increasing funding by that amount; it is a net decrease in the production of human knowledge. No one benefits from this.
The United States of America, which were formed for the primary purpose of taking advantage of the European Union on TRADE, has been very difficult to deal with. This is because it is governd by a gang of total lunatics!
So we decided to totally boycott all American products, including "culture"!
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“Most countries on Earth have what’s called a value added tax, a consumption tax. We don’t apply that here in America because it’s very unpopular as an idea. This tariff is exactly that. It’s a consumption tax,” he stated.
https://www.sportskeeda.com/us/reality-tv/a-consumption-tax-shark-tank-s-kevin-o-leary-shares-tariffs-passed-consumers-strain-profit-margins
In 2023, the US had a trade deficit of 50 billion with the EU (in goods AND in services).
In 2024, the US had a trade deficit of 265 billion with china.
His tariffs on china = 30%
trump is putin and china's bitch.
Who has his account?
We, Europeans, time travel all the time just to piss him off.
Some of the booty you grift could pay for a good therapist.
truly 5D chess and a stable genius...
Demented fool
It’s exhausting, sure. It’s also stupid and foolish.
the deconstruction the social safety net for the poor
& gave the money to tax cuts for the rich
is the fault of the 77 million voters,
the fault of Christian hypocrites,
the fault of old white nationalists
voted for this nightmare .
He should be locked up by now.
25% on iPhones unless Tim Cook moves the manufacturing to the US. And now 50% tariff on Europe.
His insanity will eventually lead to a major market collapse.
Shows just how firmly stuck in the past he is.
It’s also a new development, isn’t it? He has a couple new sign offs that are both antiquated and out of character, that he uses sometimes.
He’s not clever enough to come up with shit on his own either.
Someone can’t do numbers.
250 million $ is less than the costs in total of the plane he received from Saudi Arabia. Peanuts somehow.
I've always regarding the US as an ally, but now to hell with it until that repugnant creature is removed one and for all.
The EU, the UK, and Canada should form their own bloc.
The US is becoming an enemy.
But God bless those in the States opposing and fighting the bast*rd and his govt. All strength to you.
We used to be such good friends, and now it feels like everything is changing.
It seems that he offers more warm words for a war criminal in Russia than for his allies in Europe.
What will happen next?
And then, he can’t count. The real trade and service balance is just profitable for the US.
When EU gets away from all the US tech solutions, then that is another story.
It’s not a negotiation, he’s a self centered, self serving wanna be king, who’s really just a weak bully
He's so mad they haven't called him yet...lol.
https://www.voronoiapp.com/trade/-European-Union-Exports-to-the-US-Key-Product-Categories-20002024-3263
Moving to 50% as he’s growing frustrated.
Next stop 100% before folding as always!
🤪
#tariffs
Someone who went to secretarial school wrote it.
So much for cheap drug prices.
That is all he’s doing. He’s cried this wolf before.
Trump personally took in hundreds of millions of dollars through his meme coin in the past 4 months.
The media has once again fell for it.
We have learned that a signed treaty with the US means *nothing*. Some "president" will do whatever he pleases...and this will NOT go away when Trump quits or dies.
This is forever, you are framed as not trustworthy
The tariffs are a problem, but the bigger problem is how they are constantly changing.
It makes planning impossible.
(Trump, not you! You are great 🫶🏽)
That's the second time he's used that closing in a matter of hours. I'm beginning to sense a pattern.
hits the Global/U.S. economy hard;
retaliatory tariffs by whoever he slapped them on;
job layoffs;
businesses don't come back;
China welcomes E.U. to better trade;
prices go up everywhere;
and stock market reacts negatively = Rollback the tariffs, claims victory.
🥱Miss anything?
I really can't...
We don't need your hormonate meat...
We don't newd your crap products.
We don't buy American chicken because it's got more drugs in it than an american doctors prescription list, it's got nothing to do with tariffs.
We spend twice as much buying Japanese Saki than our own crappy knock off, it's about QUALITY not price.
250,000,000,000 instead of 250,000,000?
(I just made that up, just like he did.)
EU is already working trade agreements among themselves, and other governments who don't have totally stupid, fascist as leaders.
Poor felon, extortion is the only game he knows.
He's just gonna walk it back in a week anyway.
In the meantime, thousands of people are suffering, will suffer, and die. Rejoicing in the slowdown of academic research is also a very short-sighted view.
USAID is an 60 years old organization.
Not good news for Google, Amazon, Microsoft and all technology companies that sell service in EU🤷♂️
Trade War with China was not a good lesson learned for the Idiot.
TACO
Trump always chickens out.
Trump doesn't care about Europe
(don´t give a fuck about Europe)
So we decided to totally boycott all American products, including "culture"!