Trump launches blistering new trade attack against Brussels, as he agrees to cool tariff war with Beijing.
Donald Trump said Monday that the European Union is worse than China, hours after Washington and Beijing agreed to slash respective punitive tariffs and de-escalate their trade war.
“European Union is in many ways nastier than China, okay?” Trump said, as he lashed the bloc. “Oh, they’ll come down a lot. You watch. We have all the cards. They treat us very unfairly.”
Despite several attempts at negotiating with Washington to remove Trump’s tariffs on European goods, the EU has yet to achieve a breakthrough.
As the “kids these days” say:
Cope.
He speaks like such a child.
He needs to be understood by his supporters.
By “nasty” he means they aren’t offering him a jumbo jet as a bribe
Translation: the EU still retains some elements of democracy.
I would say autonomy instead of democracy. Many countries here have the same bi-partisan system with both sides being financed by competing (or not) mustache-twirling villains, and ultimately nobody knows nor has a hand in what happens in Brussels… The only reason we’re not more cucked by the powers that be is because our populations are more reactive (?).
Considering that he hurt the US economy considerably in the process of getting tootled by China, I don’t think he has credit to spare for repeating the same process with the EU.
He’s not completely wrong. EU can be nasty, but it takes time. It’s pretty bureaucratic, so it moves a lot slower than China. And at the moment EU is moving towards killing the US’s entire digital services in retaliation now that normal negotiations failed.
What does this mean in practice?
Strict rules on EU data and heavy fines for breaking those. Tariffs on taking EU data out of the EU. Changing tax rules on services and advertising. Basically make having a foreign digital service in the EU unprofitable.
Thanks for explaining, that sound good. I hope we can also squeeze in Year of Linux on the Desktop as an added bonus.
Dammit, I thought we’d always been at war with Eastasia.
I’m scared by how often I’ve seen that book referenced in the last few months
The Chinese have already laid the outline on how to handle Trump’s tariffs. Just match the rates and then wait for him to cave. Then he’ll announce how they reached a great historic deal
Stop, orange man, you’re making me blush :)
This is like the pot some idiot left on the fire and burnt the stew into a solid block of char calling the kettle black.
Dude is a freaky nasty shitbird.
He has like two or three phrases max on his repertoire and he just vomits them all over the press at every occasion, huh? 😅 And this is the person a good chunk of Americans (perhaps not a majority, I know democracy in America is iffy to say the least) thought was at least competent enough to lead? Oh boy oh boy oh boy…
And his limited vocabulary keeps shrinking even more. But don’t call it dementia or the MAGAts get all sensitive.
The children will have to tolerate discomfort to mature as people, like we all have.
Hes gonna fold on the eu too…
One of the reasons Putin put him into office was to sabotage the EU. The others were to destroy NATO and cripple the US economy.
He’s such a child. If anyone doesn’t give him his way immediately, he starts calling them names.
Stop, Donald. Take a break. Go play golf
Nothing is nastier than the Orange Turds’s diaper.
