Trump threatens tariffs on countries that disagree with Greenland takeover plans

Yeah, no. You know what? I think we're better off without the US at this point.

And he may put tariffs on you anyway, so that's a wash and you may as well do what's right. If your country doesn't push back, he'll come for you sooner or later. Mark Carney take note.

Go ahead, I can't wait to laugh when they sell all the US bonds and declare US copyrights and patents as null and void.

Kinda seems that the whole rest of the world should just join BRICS or something. Tariffs ain't gone mean much if the rest of the world just shrugs and keeps progressing their global economy without you.

Still doesn’t know how tariffs work I see.

He's basically admitting that his plans may be foiled if other countries don't support him.

And they won't. Tariffs are a much better alternative than risking world war 3. Also the US is already tariffing the shit out of most of the world's goods anyway.

Fuck the US and it’s imperialist, expansionist bullshit. Tarrif whatever you want - no one wants to trade with your fascist country and countries are making other trade arrangements without the US.

So if congress does not support his plans, is he imposing tariffs on the US?

American here (not a Trump fan).

There's three things we should be looking at IMHO.

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First- Trump is a publicity man, an actor. He understands the camera.

Think of a magic show. You have the magician and the cute assistant in a swimsuit. So when they set up the trick the assistant is flourishing her hands and dancing over the stage to distract you from noticing that the magician palmed your card instead of shuffling it back into the deck.

Trump understands this. And he knows how to play both the magician and the assistant.

So if he says something wild like this, understand he WANTS attention on that statement, which probably means he DOESN'T want attention on something else. Like Epstein. If those files have any kind of actual proof he partook in Epstein's services, there's a good chance that an impeachment might actually succeed to conviction. Because it's easy to 'stand with your party leader', it's a lot harder to say 'yes I stand by my vote that the guy in the picture with his dick in a 14yo girl should stay President'.

Point being- whenever Trump says something outrageous like this, your first question should be 'what DOESN'T he want me paying attention to?

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Second- understand that USA literally cannot annex Greenland by force. Greenland is a territory of Denmark, and Denmark is a member of NATO. If the US invades Denmark, all other NATO companies are OBLIGATED to provide military support. So that would basically kick USA out of NATO, and you can bet your bottom dollar that not only NATO but also Russia, China, North Korea, etc would all fall over themselves to 'help respect and defend the sovereign territory of Denmark from illegal invasion'. That very quickly becomes a 'US vs Rest Of World' war and even with our giant military there's NO chance we win against the entire rest of the planet combined. Plus militarily we would be isolated, ostracized from the world economy.

Americans understand this. Our government understands this. Congress understands this. Even if Trump does not, Congress would not authorize such a war.

As for tariffs- Congress is much more hesitant to curtail Trump's tariff powers, but their tolerance has a limit (somewhere). It's one thing to enact tariffs 'to protect American manufacturing', they'll generally tolerate a 'good faith' effort like that. But when the tariff becomes punitive to countries that aren't supporting an annexation that obviously isn't going to happen, I think Congress might step in.

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Third- While this all may well be a distraction or a strategy, it is doing actual harm to our international relations. If I was a citizen of EU, AU, Asia, etc, I would be saying 'the US can no longer be trusted to lead the world economy, the rest of the world needs to find a solution where the US is 'one among many' not calling the shots. And a big part of that would likely be a different worldwide reserve currency. Because right now this is like being on a bus where every few minutes the driver jokes about swerving in front of an oncoming semi truck- even if he won't do it, you still don't want to be on that bus.

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What this also means is that the next Presidential election is important not just for American internal politics but for determining what our place in the world will be going forward. While Trump is ineligible to be re-elected, I think it's important that the US send a clear message this isn't the sort of statesmanship that we want representing us. That DOESN'T mean blindly vote blue. It means vote in primaries, vote for candidates who act like statesmen.

Every time the same threat only means you actually have next to nothing to threaten with Never give in to blackmail it only leads to more (as he has proven quite clearly with this statement!)

The rest of the world needs to just embargo us at this point.

Lol just tariff us then.

We'll slap on retaliation tariffs.

I will pay a lot to be petty and take away what he thinks is his one card.

But those countries that don't agree with you taking over Greenland would be by definition in conflict with the United States. So I doubt there would be any trade happening anyway.

He really is a pudding brain.

So everyone then?

Dear Europe and Canada,

Please don’t kidnap our dear leader Shitler us Americans would be too sad to invade your territory if you did that. Pretty please…I meant please don’t take our favorite pedofile baby killing con man and take him to the hauge.

Thank you, American people

Okay, have fun taxing your own people, you stupid fuck.

I bet this will totally bring down grocery prices!...

At this point, it appears that the EU is the last bastion of liberal democracy still standing. The world should probably start to move to the Euro as reserve currency and the basis of trade.

He's become like the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland. Everything requires a singular response. "Off with their heads!" It's like he's not smart enough or emotionally mature enough to consider another response, let along a more subtle response. It's like he needs to prove to everyone he is a strongman by yelling at everyone within earshot that he is strong. Methinks he doth protest too much.

He's already done that and as a Canadian I've not really noticed much difference.

If someone would just please take him and Vance out, it would be greatly appreciated

The only reason Trump is doing this is to get the USA out of NATO for Putin. The reason he works for Putin is because Putin has some very compromising pictures and videos of Trump, involving children and possibly pee

Then tariff us already you orange fascist piece of shit.

Boycott the US, beat him at his bluff

He realllly doesn't want everyone to know he's a PDF file.

New year, so we're gonna start over at the beginning again.

So every Americans access to capitalism's goods is all a tool for trump to play his idiotic micropenis games with the world now. Capitalism wasnt great, but is this technically even capitalism anymore?

I don't think Trump realizes how petty the rest of the world can get and actively avoid American products for a looong time.

He has caused generational damage to America.

He does know Tariffs can go both ways, right? If you think things are expensive now, just wait until the rest of the world plays the reverse Uno card.

If the Supreme Court is going to rule against him in the tariff case, they may want to delay a little longer to update the ruling to cover this bullshit too.

I believe a tariff imposed on ones own country is just called tax.