Now do a 300% tariff on US cars exported to the EU so people will stop buying those damn RAM and Tesla deathmobiles already.
this post was submitted on 01 May 2026
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Nah. Just make them street illegal.
Lovely idea, but then the masses of already incited anti-government types will turn even more against the EU governments. If Trump does it, maybe they'll stop listening to him and his ilk.
Back to illegal tariffs to distract from Iran war to distract from the epstein files.... what a fucking retard
This is why you don't make a deal with Trump: he'll invariably break it whilst spewing some bullshit about how "it's your fault".
Mind you the EU Commission is so sold-out, kept under control with kompromat and/or just plain incompetent that not only did they rush to "make a deal" with Trump when he first pushed the EU with Tariffs, they'll compromise with him now and will do so again, again and again every time he pushes some more.
In the EU we need to get rid of these crooks and that specific dysfunctional anti-meritocratic structure and put more power in the EU Parliament directly or at least have it chose and elect the entire Commission rather than the "behind closed doors" way the EU Commission members are chosen at the moment - whilst the Parliament is directly elected via Proportional Vote, the Commission is just used by politicians in government all over Europe to reward their politician mates or quietly get rid of their most incompetent *cough* von der Leyden *cough* colleagues.
The EU commission and the EU in general works always trying to descalate first, because usually a not-so-good deal is better than a war, even a trade one.
So trying to get a deal is fine imho.
Now there it comes the second stage. Got and tried a deal, the other party does not keep its side. Unleash the kraken and go for them. Go nuclear, start dumping US bonds and trade with the rest of the world in Renmibi (we don’t want the Euro to be the world reseve currency, no thanks).
Hit them where it hurts.
Did he forget about that lawsuit he lost where his tariffs were determined to be illegal?
Who am I kidding? He doesn't give a shit.
Supreme Court ruling was against tariffs under IEEPA. He is still able to use industry specific tariffs under Trade Expansion Act, that's how tariffs on Canadian auto, lumber, steel, aluminum sectors continue dispute Supreme Court ruling
is it then not possible for him to circumvent the ruling entirely by simply taxing the industries that account for like 99% of the trade with a given country? like it probably wouldn't be possible to list all the industries but surely listing 10 most popular ones would essentially equate to a blanket tariff
Not quite. The industry specific tariffs are not a free workaround for blanket tariffs. Each sector tariff needs its own legal basis, investigation and justification, often tied to national security or trade remedy rules. If the government just picked the top industries to recreate a country wide tariff, courts could treat that as pretext or abuse of authority. So “10 big industries = basically blanket tariff” may be economically similar but legally it is not the same thing
It's effectively a bailout with extra steps
Huh?
The car manufacturers will charge the customer any tariffs and then when they sue to get there money back they will not only keep the price at the higher level butv will then get the tariff money back. Same thing the last lawsuit did.
Except it's ongoing.
Gotcha. Sorry, I'm really tired.
I heard he gives shits all the time. Everyone's saying it.
We all know it's actually just him being a petty little bitch over European countries not getting on board his train wreck of a war.
And that he's not complying with the trade deal.
Maybe BMW can announce a layoff, due to tariffs, of 11k jobs in South Carolina. Then VW can layoff 48k in Tennessee, and Mercedes with 6k in Alabama. Then those Southern states can see how horrible their choice of President was for their state...Ha! Who am I kidding, they will follow him into hell and blame Biden.
Cars made in those plants aren't subject to tariffs. It'd be incredibly stupid to do that.
It'd be incredibly stupid to do that.
I don't see how that argument is relevant?
It'd be stupid for the companies themselves to sell less vehicles in a capitalist system.
Ah, I read you as talking about the decision to apply the tariffs.
What's that? US auto prices are going to go up by 25%?
In B4 TACOs
Fuck, he's stupid.
Eat fuck trump. I cant wait until you die.
yawn