Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
https://ground.news/article/trump-says-he-may-punish-countries-with-tariffs-if-they-dont-back-the-us-controlling-greenland
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Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca · 195 pts · 214d
Do it, pussy. We're not buying your shit anyway. The USA can go fuck itself.
nexguy@lemmy.world · 91 pts · 214d
I'm from the USA and we definitely need to go fuck ourselves with a dried pineapple
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip · 58 pts · 214d
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 214d
Wonder how big Trump's pineapple will be?
Zagam@piefed.social · 22 pts · 214d
Not big enough.
myserverisdown@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 213d
Hopefully about 2¼" in diameter by 3½" tall and made of cast iron.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 213d
probably a large DURIAN.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 213d
Durian
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 214d
It's the other way around, he is putting tariffs on American imports, so it will be harder for us to sell to USA.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca · 41 pts · 214d
I'm not interested in doing business with America until they can get their shit together.
Honestly, I've been in favor of a full embargo since this whole 'trade-war' bullshit kicked off. Strengthen trade with other nations while showing America they don't control the global economy.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 214d
Fine, I personally have a near total boycott on American goods and services myself, doesn't change the fact that tariffs are not about us buying stuff from USA.
Today@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 214d
So the good jam and flavored dates will be twice as expensive. Great ....
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 213d
This is also why all the fucking electronics companies in the EU only going through american distributers and having their own damn webshops from and EU company ship from the US is going to cripple one of or most important industries when shit hits the fan. Looking at you STM, Nordic, and uBlox!
We have 3 large distributers in Europe: UK, Poland, and international (UK and Belgium) and yet only a tiny tiny subset of older parts are sold from there while the american distributors are packed full.
TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website · 133 pts · 214d
Oh yeah make your people pay for your stupidity
phaedrus@piefed.world · 49 pts · 214d
That is precisely what, "his people", are for in his eyes. There is no one but him in his world.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 23 pts · 214d
I hope he does it. The people need to feel some pain to motivate us to put a stop to this madness, unfortunately.
madjo@piefed.social · 10 pts · 214d
Sadly MAGAs are living in a completely separate reality from the rest of the world. Unreachable with facts and figures.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 214d
It's not MAGA who I'm hoping will act. A massive coalition of leftists, run of the mill liberals or even non-maga conservatives needs to form and remove Trump from power.
madjo@piefed.social · 9 pts · 214d
I’m thinking about what is going to happen to the nation if/when trump is ousted. Because you have something like 77 million people who are living in alternative fact land. And you will have to deal with them.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 214d
I don't think that's totally accurate. A lot of those are just not paying attention and annoyed with the economy, so they just punish whoever is in power. That said there are tens of millions who are really that deluded and hateful and I don't know what to do with them. Let me them form their own little autonomous territories maybe, I'm not sure.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 213d
I think a straight up 2nd American Civil War is the only real way to fix America at this point. The establishment parties are too corrupt to save my people, and there are many terrible people who cannot be rehabilitated by anything less than a bullet.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 100 pts · 214d
He's already threatening to escalate to a kinetic war and then returns to threaten a trade war which he already started.
Is that supposed to be the master negotiator?
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 214d
The master masturbator negotiator.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 214d
It's the same tactic children employ when they throw tantrums in a grocery store. They wager they can make a fuss big enough so that it's just easier for parents to give them what they want and carry on with their day.
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 213d
The Shart of the Steal
khannie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 213d
The idea of a kinetic war with Europeans is horribly unpopular in the US so this is him scrambling.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 79 pts · 214d
Repeal the DMCA clone laws in every country.
That's what will actually hit the fuckers bankrolling this guy.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 214d
Yup. Do that and you can make an alternative App store for Iphones, give a 90% discount, eat Apples lunch, and still make 30 Billion.
50MYT@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 214d
I fought with your father in the clone wars
rbos@lemmy.ca · 75 pts · 214d
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 · 24 pts · 214d
Then an hour later he will forget what he said in a meeting he slept through and change his mind.
TACO
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 213d
Too bad that turtle fence couldn't keep Hoekstra out.
shittydwarf@piefed.social · 56 pts · 214d
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
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 214d
The reason he works for Putin is that he's been laundering money for the Russian mob since the 1980s, and he has learned to do as they tell him while imagining he's making his own decisions.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 213d
also deustche bank being complicit as well, since they are doing through the german bank.
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 214d
I don't even see how this benefits Russia. Their military hasn't even been effective in Ukraine. The remaining NATO members have more than enough military to deal with Russia
I get they're removing the largest force, but they don't have the military to capitalize on that. If anything they're going to end up making the rest of Europe stronger.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 213d
A destabilized US is still an advantage to some wishing to supplant the falling superpower.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 213d
having the west and US all infighting from culture wars, and conservative govt, allows russia to freely invade its neighbors more easily without much resistance. its thier foundation of geopolitics.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 214d
Or Putin just pays him a shitload of money each time.
PetteriPano@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 214d
My sources tell me that there's even poo-poo involved.
JamieDub86@piefed.social · 3 pts · 214d
Cant he just set up an only fans and own it? Seems much easier.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 213d
or more videos of trump commitiing rapes.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 213d
also trump has significant financial ties to russia for decades.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 43 pts · 213d
"If you don't do what I want, I'll destroy my own economy!"
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 213d
Peak spoiled toddler behavior.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 213d
That's our boy!
ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz · 43 pts · 214d
Rest of the world, please remove your DMCA-like laws.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 214d
Could also start dumping some of those US bonds.
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 214d
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.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 214d
Hey, at least he doesn't rape childre...oh!
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 213d
Hey, at least he doesn't murder childre...oh!
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 213d
Yep. Good news though, the women don't have to worr...oh!
DragonAce@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 213d
This motherfucker has lost his fucking mind. He is so desperate to distract from the Epstein files that he is trying to start WW3.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 213d
WW3 and a Greater Depression.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 213d
Make America Great Depression Again
blinfabian@feddit.nl · 34 pts · 214d
PLS TARRIF US, I DONT WANT US PRODUCTS ANYWAY
logi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 213d
That's not how that works. It'll make Americans pay more for European (etc) imports.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 214d
Okay, do it, because I vehemently stand with Greenland.
This is a position that I’m willing to go through a lot of pain and consequence to support.
Greenland is all of us, and if Greenland falls we all are fucked.
khannie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 213d
Amen. It's time to decouple if he goes that far.
DistrictSIX@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 213d
Why is it Greenland and not every other country he fucked over that's your redline? Let's face it, no one in the Western world has a redline and all will keep sucking on Donnie's rectum until the end of time. The west is a clown show that has clearly proven its lack of any principles.
elvith@feddit.org · 27 pts · 214d
Quiet, Piggy!
borQue@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 213d
you CANNOT punish a country with tariffs. You punish the USA citizins with that. Idiot.
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 213d
It punishes both. It harms both economies.
Mio@feddit.nu · 10 pts · 213d
Dont forget about trust lost from other countries
HarneyToker@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 213d
Yes, and I’m sure you know this, but it generally hurts both countries equally or close to it, and therefore that is a dumb as fuck way to punish countries for not supporting your modern Monroe Doctrine
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 213d
Trump is threatening tarrifs. Must be a day that ends with a Y.
Shadowcrawler@discuss.tchncs.de · 23 pts · 214d
echodot@feddit.uk · 22 pts · 213d
Yeah I'm sure they're really worried.
Imagine how screwed we'd all be if he had a whole IQ point.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 213d
As a Canadian, the best thing Trump has done is made us rely less on America.
IronBird@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 213d
truly the great unifier
killabeezio@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 214d
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.
NENathaniel@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 213d
You were proud to be American before Trump?
unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 213d
killabeezio@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 212d
I was. You can't conflate what politicians do and what the government does as "this is what the country is all about". There are plenty of reasons to be proud of your country. The reason I am no longer proud is just the sheer amount of stupidity in people these days. It really feels like we are going backwards.
But here's the thing, America isn't the only country going backwards.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 213d
I don't want to be American. At least, not for THIS America. Hopefully, the Blue States will break off from Dogey America and proceed to curbstomp the fuckers into oblivion.
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 214d
RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 214d
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.
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 20 pts · 213d
Yeah whatever Shitler, you have a trade surplus with us you morons. Go to town carbuncle.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 213d
Oh, FFS. That shit punishes US.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 214d
He means punish us, right? Because that's how fucking tariffs work you orange fascist dickhead.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 214d
Who would have thought that giving a fascist an inch would make him demand a foot?
kokesh@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 214d
Fuck you, orange looser. I really hope someone snipes you.
Elbow1240@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 214d
Those countries also have the option of imposing retaliatory tariffs and/or dumping US Treasuries.
ideonek@piefed.social · 3 pts · 214d
And what do we even import from US? Ads, surveillance, and AI slops?
AngryRobot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 214d
And not some false flag "attempts" like 2024
saphiron@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 214d
Pedolf Diddler, where are the rest of the fucking Epstein files?!?
Jinarched@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 213d
If one of you mention anything negative about us taking Greenland, I will tax my population more and severely disrupt their ability to purchase goods they need while you will be forced to find new partners. It will be very inconvenient for you. You will probably lose any trust you have in us and might not risk trading with us for a very long time.
Checkmate radical leftists. This is the art of the deal.
Oh... also. Please keep buying bonds and don't you dare trade with China.
lorski@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 213d
Punish American citizens with tariffs - he means?
MrSulu@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 213d
Shortly, any country without Trump tariffs would be considered with suspicion.
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 213d
One trick pony
tehsillz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 213d
His other trick is fucking little girls
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 214d
Make America North Korea
madjo@piefed.social · 2 pts · 214d
For some reason he really wants the US to become completely isolated from the rest of the world. I don't understand Putin's long game here.
FishFace@piefed.social · 4 pts · 214d
The US has been the guarantor of many nations' security for decades. If they secede from the world, in the insecurity they leave behind, Russia and its friends can hoover up whichever weak states they want.
That is assuming that no-one else (i.e. the EU) steps up and supports those nations which Russia and China have their eyes on.
bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 213d
Honestly not much different from WW2. The world was on its own until Pearl harbor.
FishFace@piefed.social · 2 pts · 213d
You're forgetting something important that happened in summer of 1941, plus the background level of militarisation among non American countries
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 214d
Putin benefits hugely from the US withdrawing from world affairs.
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 11 pts · 213d
So about those Epstein files…
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 214d
He'll demand the Sudentland and Austria next.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 213d
Putin's running dog as usual.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 213d
Why don't you put 1000% tariffs on everything you fucking buffoon.
raynethackery@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 214d
Peace in our time.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 213d
its RUSSIAN speak, punish [western country] to sow dissent, plus serves also a epsteinfiledistraction that putin might release.
nocteb@feddit.org · 8 pts · 214d
If he steps over the line there should be no trade anyway.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 214d
There already shouldn't be now.
duncan_bayne@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 213d
Time to see whether our elected representatives here have any spine ...
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 214d
If we Lick just a LITTLE bit More MAYBE he Won't Punish us NEXT!
-World Leaders apparently!
FaceDeer@fedia.io · 1 pts · 214d
Wait to see if anyone actually caves.
Virtvirt588@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 213d
About fucking time, we need a degree of decentralization from the US. There absolutely was no need to make US the central hub of nearly everything in this first place, all this basically proved that they where the superpower. Now this time long centralized structure is being tested - and hopefully it dissolves.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 214d
Dementia Don
madjo@piefed.social · 8 pts · 214d
Are there any countries left he hasn't levied tariffs against? I believe the penguins are still quaking in their flippers..
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 213d
Chais@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 213d
🌏🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
tehsillz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 213d
Yes btw. Wake the hell up.
skozzii@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 214d
Once people realize if we all collectively so NO they can't do a damn thing.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 6 pts · 214d
So, he wants to shut off more trade in a tantrum. Interesting tactic.
Jimm@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 213d
That sounds less like diplomacy and more like pressure politics. Greenland isn’t a bargaining chip, and using tariffs to force support would probably just strain alliances instead of strengthening them.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 213d
Pressure politics is part of diplomacy.
That being said, the US effectively doesn't have any allies any more. Sure there's still alliances on paper, but Trump doesn't care about agreements and everyone knows it. But we're in a bit of an awkward dance where countries don't want Trump to know that they know the US no longer considers any country an ally. Just buying time to shift everything away from the US.
IronBird@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 213d
also, mostly just trying to outlast him in the vain hope for a "return to normal" when he croaks.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 214d
Let me translate the Trumpspeak to English:
"Whaaaaaa! Whaaaaaaa! WHAAAAAaaaa!"
madjo@piefed.social · 1 pts · 214d
Oh his diaper needs replacing.. NOT IT!
grte@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 214d
Yawn.
This again?
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 214d
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 any gangster.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 213d
Most gangsters understand that constant reneging will make the victims start fighting back. They want their rackets to be boring and reliable.
ywain@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 214d
Wonder why people have been screaming 'death to america' for years?
5715@feddit.org · 5 pts · 214d
Even if you do that, you don't do it like that: You're supposed to bully your weakest trade partners into bullying your opponents so that you don't get dirty, you impatient fuck.
Also, we had this before and it didn't work, both domestically and diplomatically, so this is an empty threat, you're bluffing.
For all those receptive to their ramblings: Why is there only one of 20 military camps build by the US on Greenland occupied if this push is supposed to be about national security?
green_red_black@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 214d
Katana314@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 213d
Why is news site reporting what the rapist terrorist said? Who gives a flying fuck what threats a felon gives?
Kim Jong Un wants you not to piss in his coffee. You laugh, you don't give it a fucking headline.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 213d
don't be so obnoxiously, obtusely, performatively fragile
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 213d
So sick of this BS, and the idiots that think other countries pay anything.
Smoogs@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 213d
Yup ok. Giv’er president pedo face
ideonek@piefed.social · 3 pts · 214d
Do it. We'll be allies which you forget how to be.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 213d
Okay? The entire world is already planning for a post-American future. But yeah, give us more reasons.
Lor@leminal.space · 2 pts · 214d
tell him to stfu already
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 2 pts · 213d
archived site because fuck subscriptions and cookies: https://archive.is/P4Cex
DegenerationIP@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 214d