President Donald Trump said Friday he may impose tariffs on countries “if they don’t go along with Greenland.”“We need Greenland for national security. So I may do that,” Trump said at the White House.The comments show Trump considering applying tariffs, one of his favorite tools for leveraging his executive power over foreign countries, to his increasingly aggressive efforts to acquire Greenland for the United States.
  • killabeezio@lemmy.world
    3·
    54 minutes ago

    God I hate what my country has become. No country is perfect or will ever be, but I can no longer say I’m proud to be an American. Fucking sad.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
    2·
    28 minutes ago

    Yeah I’m sure they’re really worried.

    Imagine how screwed we’d all be if he had a whole IQ point.

  • DragonAce@lemmy.world
    2·
    24 minutes ago

    This motherfucker has lost his fucking mind. He is so desperate to distract from the Epstein files that he is trying to start WW3.

  • RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca
    2·
    2 hours ago

    Oh man I’ve been waiting for us to have an excuse to tariff them. For one thing, we need to get Canadians to stop buying anything from the US, there are too many Canadians that don’t seem to learn… At least with tariffs in place, the die-hard MAGA Canadians that insist on buying America will fund our economic development.

    Also we get to put the squeeze on the US. I say we start with potash, or maybe hydro. Hit the essentials first.

    After all, we should just assume he’s going to tariff us no matter what we do. He’ll use China as an excuse, he’ll use the F35s as leverage, no matter what we do he’ll renege on it, the same way he did on his own CUSMA. Just do what we need to do and lie to him, pretend we’re doing everything we can, buy time and keep diversifying. Buy the Gripens, negotiate the deal in secret if needed so you don’t need to announce it until the last minute. At this point don’t commit to anything with the US. Delay, delay, delay.

  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 hour ago

    So he is going to reneg on his agreements at this point? At this point he has attacked everyone so he can fuck off. If you agree to him he’ll just move the goal post again. He is like a any gangster.

  • skozzii@lemmy.ca
    1·
    2 hours ago

    Once people realize if we all collectively so NO they can’t do a damn thing.

  • LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world
    25·
    4 hours ago

    No one can escape punishment from a mentally deranged felon. He even murdered his closest friend over some files, so take that as you will.

  • rbos@lemmy.caEnglish
    51·
    6 hours ago

    Bring it. He’ll tariff us anyways for being rude to his ambassador or some shit anyway.

    Fuck Hoekstra and fuck Trump.

    • tempest@lemmy.ca
      17·
      5 hours ago

      Then an hour later he will forget what he said in a meeting he slept through and change his mind.

      TACO

  • GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world
    14·
    5 hours ago

    Cool cool cool. Yeah I’m sure Americans LOVE paying tariffs and they will thank you for even more price rises.

    DO IT. I’m sure it will achieve the best poll ratings ever. No president or any leader in the history of humanity was as popular and as supported and as amazing as the orange pedo!