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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"

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[–] axh@lemmy.world 156 points 1 day ago (8 children)

It's like saying Hitler attacked Poland and organised holocaust just to distract the German public... No, at some point you guys need to admit it, the guy is a power hungry lunatic.

[–] clot27@lemmy.zip -1 points 4 hours ago

Not the guy but vast majority of americans are lunatics

[–] MonsterMonster@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago (1 children)

... who just happens to associate with the known pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Doesn't matter if it's power over girls or countries.... power hungry is power hungry.

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Los dos, my people.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Weeeeeelll, the Nazis had illegally taken out a bunch of loans and hidden that fact with financial trickery. That's how they managed to pay for rearmament. All those loans were coming due, the Nazis couldn't pay and didn't want to admit what they'd done so yeah, they invaded Poland. I mean, it wasn't purely distraction, they also hoped to seize gold and foreign currency in Polish possession but distraction was a huge part of it.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Back when debt was something to reckon with instead of just being a an infinite money exploit for trillionaire speedruns.

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 day ago

at some point you guys need to admit it, the guy is a power hungry lunatic.

some of us have been shouting this at the top of our lungs for years

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He is, but the Epstein files is the one thing his base has actually reacted to with possibly disgust. They are fine with literally everything else he does.

So this is a case of him being a power hungry fuck that also works well to distract from the one thing that might cause consequences. It can be two things.

[–] CXORA@aussie.zone 7 points 15 hours ago

If there's one thing his base are good at it is ignoring the truth. I seriously doubt they would believe the content of the Epstein files to be true, eve if Donald Trump directly said they were.

[–] tehsillz@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hitler was actually clear from the start about making Germany great again and immigrants, foreigners and jews being 'undesirable'. Oh wait.

[–] Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

And Hitler was perfectly fine with just deporting Jews, to Madagascar I believe was his idea until it turned out to be a stupid and impractical idea. So I guess Trump is just at the pre-mass murder stage right now.

[–] tehsillz@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

It wasn't just the jews.. The Nuremberg laws also included "Gypsies, Negroes, and their bastards".

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Eventually we'll find out both Hitler and Churchill are in the Epstein files.

[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 1 points 1 day ago

Between the Haavara Agreement and all that crap with Prince Andrew, I honestly wouldn't be surprised.

[–] breezeblock@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago