Trump: The EU is ‘nastier than China’
Trump launches blistering new trade attack against Brussels, as he agrees to cool tariff war with Beijing.
Donald Trump said Monday that the European Union is worse than China, hours after Washington and Beijing agreed to slash respective punitive tariffs and de-escalate their trade war.
"European Union is in many ways nastier than China, okay?" Trump said, as he lashed the bloc. "Oh, they'll come down a lot. You watch. We have all the cards. They treat us very unfairly."
Despite several attempts at negotiating with Washington to remove Trump’s tariffs on European goods, the EU has yet to achieve a breakthrough.
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By “nasty” he means they aren’t offering him a jumbo jet as a bribe
I would say autonomy instead of democracy. Many countries here have the same bi-partisan system with both sides being financed by competing (or not) mustache-twirling villains, and ultimately nobody knows nor has a hand in what happens in Brussels... The only reason we're not more cucked by the powers that be is because our populations are more reactive (?).
Dammit, I thought we'd always been at war with Eastasia.
I'm scared by how often I've seen that book referenced in the last few months
Hes gonna fold on the eu too...
The Chinese have already laid the outline on how to handle Trump's tariffs. Just match the rates and then wait for him to cave. Then he'll announce how they reached a great historic deal
He speaks like such a child.
He needs to be understood by his supporters.
Sometimes I wonder if he is really that stupid or is just pretending.
He's really that stupid. Source: am US citizen and have had to follow his nonsensical ramblings far too closely over the last 6 years.
Idiocracy
He has like two or three phrases max on his repertoire and he just vomits them all over the press at every occasion, huh? 😅 And this is the person a good chunk of Americans (perhaps not a majority, I know democracy in America is iffy to say the least) thought was at least competent enough to lead? Oh boy oh boy oh boy...
The children will have to tolerate discomfort to mature as people, like we all have.
The US is the one that has all the cards but it's the EU that's unfair? How does that work?
Typical bully.
He's not completely wrong. EU can be nasty, but it takes time. It's pretty bureaucratic, so it moves a lot slower than China. And at the moment EU is moving towards killing the US's entire digital services in retaliation now that normal negotiations failed.
What does this mean in practice?
Strict rules on EU data and heavy fines for breaking those. Tariffs on taking EU data out of the EU. Changing tax rules on services and advertising. Basically make having a foreign digital service in the EU unprofitable.
Thanks for explaining, that sound good. I hope we can also squeeze in Year of Linux on the Desktop as an added bonus.
I'm getting a little tired of USA
Stop, orange man, you’re making me blush :)
Stop, Donald. Take a break. Go play golf
He’s such a child. If anyone doesn’t give him his way immediately, he starts calling them names.
I went to China on a business trip about 10 years ago. I was gobsmacked by how good they are at flattery. I was totally unprepared for it, and they didn't even want anything from me.
Nothing is nastier than the Orange Turds’s diaper.
I thought it was Canada that was “nasty”. Go fuck yourself mate.
Canada has been nothing but warm and welcoming to my partner and I
Except for the weather. Last winter was rough lol (but I'm used to snow)
As the "kids these days" say:
Cope.
Everyone despises him, China just hides it slightly better
Remember Musk calling for a free-trade agreement not a long while ago?
This is like the pot some idiot left on the fire and burnt the stew into a solid block of char calling the kettle black.
Dude is a freaky nasty shitbird.
I'm doing so well just believing the opposite of whatever he says.