Trump tariffs: US president announces plan to hit UK, Denmark and other European countries with tariffs over Greenland
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from MonsterMonster@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 17 Jan 2026 16:47
https://lemmy.world/post/41760300
from MonsterMonster@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 17 Jan 2026 16:47
https://lemmy.world/post/41760300
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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The truths in the Epstein Files must be devastating when the tangerine turd tries so hard to distract from them.
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.
… who just happens to associate with the known pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Doesn’t matter if it’s power over girls or countries… power hungry is power hungry.
Los dos, my people.
some of us have been shouting this at the top of our lungs for years
Eventually we’ll find out both Hitler and Churchill are in the Epstein files.
Between the Haavara Agreement and all that crap with Prince Andrew, I honestly wouldn’t be surprised.
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.
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, even if Donald Trump directly said they were.
Jealousy. Not disgust.
Hitler was actually clear from the start about making Germany great again and immigrants, foreigners and jews being ‘undesirable’. Oh wait.
It wasn’t just the jews… The Nuremberg laws also included “Gypsies, Negroes, and their bastards”.
As well as LGBTQ+ and the political left.
Why not both?
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.
Back when debt was something to reckon with instead of just being a an infinite money exploit for trillionaire speedruns.
Not the guy but vast majority of americans are lunatics
I think Trump is just obsessed with the thought of having the legacy of expanding US’ borders. I bet he thinks all scandals will be forgotten but you can’t forget how the territory was expanded.
We remember, hundreds of years later, we remember. We tore down monuments to them, we will tear down those you erect for yourself even faster.
Trying to impress putin
Honestly it would be great if the other countries released whatever they have on Epstein and Trump. The UK at a minimum has to have a ton of dirt hidden away from when that ghoul in the royal family got publicly shamed fo it.
Not Russia because they can’t be trusted of course.
If any of this audio is true it’s way way more damning than I imagined: …substack.com/…/dont-worry-boys-are-hard-to-find
he’s willing to cause a civil war AND a world war over it, lol. makes me wonder who Bubba is.
Bill Clinton’s nickname was Bubba, Ghislaine Maxwell’s horse was also named Bubba.
Rename Greenland to Epsteinland and watch trump never mention it again.
We should compile a list of all the nicknames. There’s been some real good ones. 😂
Mango Mussolini is still my fav
Cheeto Benito
Trump again plays the dumbest card available
He’s redefining the phrase “playing the Trump Card” to mean the worst possible thing you can do.
It’s ruined euchre for me
Thanks, Obama!
Would unironically be the funniest way to cement his legacy.
So his response is to tax Americans, 3d chess right there
More like 1D. The only tools he knows are tariffs and troops.
1 tiny D
He also knows CAPS LOCK.
This man’s stupidity has no boundaries.
"Donald Trump, who says on Truth Social that the US has subsidised Denmark and the European Union for many years by not charging them tariffs.”
If he’s stupid then what’s that say about us?
Exactly
Tariffs are taxes on the importer, not the exporter. They are taxing themselves
They are a de facto consumption tax which disproportionately affect the less well off.
Impose tarrifs. Crash businesses. Buy up businesses. Lift tarrifs. Profit.
By making the American poor people pay them, they transfer more wealth to the captital class by contracting out jobs to their buddies. Also, it huts sales for the exporters, so its win win for him.
Capitalism doesn’t scale well with democracy.
Don't assume the people who didn't vote for him are apart of the stupid.
We know how many of these idiots are. 71+ Million.
"apart" has almost an opposite meaning to "a part" in this context, though "apart from" would make more sense than "apart of."
I didn't ask for a grammar nazi, thank you. There's already enough nazism around.
Seems like you’re a part of it, unfortunately.
I didn't vote for him, so fuck you.
I didn’t say you did.
I see what you did there.
Types out the opposite of what they meant
Gets corrected and has a tantrum
…calls antifascists nazis
Hmmmmm
Oh you sweet, simple child…
Edit: I made them mad…
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Gotta love when you get personal hate mail
Right?
Thanks for posting that, they’re blocked.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/…/684526/
americans have been getting stupider, by design. education has been defunded and shat upon for many years by republicans talking about “critical thinking is bad” and “we need mandatory jesus in schools” in order to make your kids as dumb as possible, because it takes a special kind of stupid to vote republican, which is the ultimate goal.
yes, a disturbingly large percentage of americans are fucking paralyzingly stupid. we have a racist, rapist pedophile con man in the white house, and legions of sheep, pledging their undying loyalty to it. why? because they’re fucking stupid
This is legitimately what the conservatives believe, that the EU is “free riding” on bailouts by the US.
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So, have you guys watched that The Outer Limits episode The Architects of Fear?
edit: I guess not. It’s about creating a monster that can unite the world [against it]
No country ever in the history of trade itself would ever give up land or risk war over a 10% tariff.
In fact, 10% is pretty pathetic even compared to Trump’s other tariffs. I’m wondering if this is his way of pretending to care about Greenland while not actually doing anything majorly impactful.
Can’t fuck with Denmark and lose access to legos, hence 10%
A disgrace. This has to be fought or it will not end here.
Someone got a list of those “other countries” for me please?
Thank you!
EU is a trade union though, so it’s all of EU.
He can’t tax one EU country different from others.
Let’s say he decides to do it anyway.
Then the EU country with the highest tariff could simply move the goods through another EU country with a lower tariff. All on paper of course.
But anyway, why’d EU even care about domestic US taxes…
That’s what I was thinking as well. If the Americans are as incompetent as they look we’ll see a surge of European exports from Poland or Spain rather than Germany or France. It may suffice to just drive the same goods to Gdansk and ship it from there…?
We don’t have to drive goods anywhere. It’s all on paper.
If the German company shipping German goods from a German harbor says that the goods actually belongs to their Polish subsidiary, that’s Polish goods.
Since most European businesses already own a letterbox in Ireland or Luxembourg, I suppose they can use those for their exports in such a scenario.
That still might affect the Netherlands, as we are Europe’s port.
I am sure our Belgian brothers will be fine with it if we say we came from Antwerp instead, it’s only 70 km away from Rotterdam :^)
After all this time, still no one has managed to convey Trump even a rudimentary understanding of what tariffs are, and what the EU is.
Carpet ban on US/foreign tech in the EU/UK. With per-company issued licences afterwards.
Social media specifically. This would be a major pain for the US.
perfect time to advertise the fediverse software :)
I would if I still had a reddit account.
Rumor has it they just delete your account if you do that. Nobody even sees that you mentioned Lemmy but the admins.
Sigh. All this means is that these countries will stop buying goods from the US. Another smooth brained move from the dotard.
This is an attack on the EU and must be met by action by the EU. Start selling off US bonds Monday.
Sadly, it’s more likely that Ursula will answer with a “only 20% tariff deal”…
Asking rhetorically, because he doesn't care but, does he not know what the repercussions of his actions will entail? He's already attacked another country, unprovoked and he's setting himself up to attack yet another, unprovoked. He's deliberately causing war and daring other countries to do something about it. None of the reasons for why what he's done to Venezulea add up and none of the reasons he wants Greenland of all places, add up.
This is a multi-time failed businessman, whose only tactic is to strong-arm people when he doesn't know how to negotiate or know how to get what he wants in other ways. Nobody should fear Trump because his way of negotiating and making business is nothing short of a laughingstock. There is some cause for concern that this guy is a psycho with climbing dementia, who will tire the country he loosely governs out and try to take everyone with him should he, but will inevitably, fail. Because that's all he's great at, is failing and will go full-blown psychopathic because he knows he's lost.
He's no different than Putin who is leaning on the idea of using nuclear warfare should he lose his edge on Ukraine.
But but but he now has the peace prize, so its not wars or attacks, just friendly banter really /s
Yup, we're in the most peaceful time ever.
Just don't look at what's happening in Gaza, Ukraine, Venezuela, soon Greenland and soon Taiwan. Everything is great. /s
This is just my theory, but I think he was ordered to invade Venezuela on Christmas, but refused to do so. So Bibi had to fly over, showed him some pictures from the Epstein Files Donald is in, and shortly after, he invaded Venezuela to not have those pictures released. Venezuela is sitting on the largest oil reserve in the world, and it was a way to cut off the leverage Iran had with its oil supply. As far as Greenland, Peter Thiel always wanted that place, there is a lot of mineral wealth beneath it, as soon as the ice is gone. It’s why his pick, JD Vence, is VP.
So he’s declaring a trade war about Greenland. Good luck doing this with the largest trading block in the world.
Greenland, but it’s not all that surprising. Everytime this toddler doesn’t get his toys, he screams “tarrifs!”
Oh god, I’m sorry! Greenland of course. For now, at least.
It’s an understandable mistake. Whoever named those places was a dick.
Europe cannot cut ties with this shit country faster. How is this lunatic still in charge? This is incomprehensible!
who tf cares? just stay the course and decouple from the US
Taxing Americans because other countries don’t support his dementia fueled fever dreams of conquest. Yup, that’ll teach 'em.
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Here we go, he is circling around back to the same threats and ideas. His Alzheimer’s must have reset him back to 2025.
Europe needs to be more forceful against Trump and the United States. The constant appeasement and coddling isn't working.
Ban US social media, tax US products (including software and subscriptions), tell my government that if the want Greenland they should be willing to trade California. I beg you guys, please fucking retaliate against this guy while you still can.
WOAH! What a HIGHLY Unexpected Move from our Master Negotiator President! And what a HIGHLY Unexpected Move from the EU to ALLOW Trump to have Greenland!*
*In a Couple Days!
You make a point that I don’t see often addressed:
If Denmark, Germany, and Co are serious, they’d be hitting way harder.
I honestly wouldn’t be at all surprised if this works, and European leaders just say, ‘Sorry folks! We really tried to stop him, but we just got outplayed again! He’s too good!’
Even if he ever actually does this it’ll only last like three weeks before he drops it out of “kindness”. Just like when he dropped the tariffs on China as there economy was “crumbling”, when the US only accounted for 3% of their exports.
Europe gave into Trump’s tariff demands last year and now he’s demanding more with the same ploy. Trump will keep using this tactic until we have nothing left. Making concessions with psychopaths is a road to complete slavery.
Sooooooo
When exactly is the entire world going to realize that negotiating ANYTHING with the Cheetos monkey is absolutely useless as he’ll just break any agreement whenever he wants?
Give him a finger and he’ll go for your hand.ngive him your hand and he’ll want your arm
It will never stop untill the entire world goes against him, united. Put up an economic blockade. No more trading with the US, at all, until their entire government has been replaced and overhauled, no more presidents
Yeah, that will be very painful for everyone, I’m sure, but in the lonrun it’ll be worse continuing whatever the fuck this is
If Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and Canada can join together in blocking trade with this asshole, he will be fucked
This is natural, but those in power are under a delusion: there will be a change at the mid-terms and then the next presidential election. The same one they had with Trump’s first presidency.
It’s bonkers how they never learn and how much they seem convinced that there will be mid-terms and a next presidency when everything points to a slow but constant regime change.
So can we (i.e. Europe) finally stop appeasing him? Full on trade war? We know he eventually backs down, he’s show it with China.
I liked central bank people supporting Powell recently, that felt like a step in the right direction. (First time anyone from Switzerland, my country, has shown any balls anyway.)
1000% tariff on all American goods.
1000000% increase on taxation for American tech companies
The real solution is to invalidate US copyright in European territories. Also listen to Doctorow and throw out the dcma like laws and blow out the monopoly on tech the us has enjoyed.
That’s a nice idea
Tarifs hurt European individuals much more then American companies and politicians, more effective might be to answer with a different ‘weapon’ such as doubling down on protecting consumers against mining user data and double time ending our dependency on US technology.
If we can’t beat them when it comes to hard power, we have to leverage our soft power.
We need to isolate the US regime like we (the west) isolate Iran and North-Korea. Trump is making a lot of enemies, we need to win those to our side (the ones that follow the rule of law i mean, not the other fascists).
Once we win that fight, we should come together and find a way to free the US’ citizens from the evil that took over their country.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
This idea exists under the delusion that those in power in other places aren’t also mostly in the same club.
Right. Everybody’s shitty fucking country has been giving intelligence to the US government and vice versa. This pitting everyone against Americans is yet another example of the class war playing out.
His favorite hammer.
Ok , taco
Block their service sector from the EU market. Boycott US products. And see how they will fare. It is about time we take a firm stance and show this demented idiot, that he cannot bully us.
how is that even need to be suggested. the US have threatened the EU, with a literal invasion. getting rid of US technology is a matter of basic national defense!!! also evicting all US military bases!!!
In the meantime my government company just announced that will be using Copilot… fucking sad
Unabashed idiots.
hiding the head in the sand, pretending everything is normal
Ask copilot:
Paste this into Copilot, let it generate the email, then give the output a quick sanity check before you press send all. Who knows, maybe you’ll start a riot. Worst case you have to find a new job (/s).
Yeah. You see a lot of angry comments from European politicians… on X.
Thats nothing, some Polish politicians simp to usa. Idk why 🤷
The US military bases are actually filled with thousands of soldiers that will be imprisoned if the US invades. If we see a large pullout from European bases then we know shit is about to go down.
when the US is threatening an invasion, that’s when you know shit is about to do down. what you’re suggesting if hiding your head in the sand and lubing your ass in preparation
I’m not suggesting doing nothing. But getting rid of American bases on European soil will make Europe more vulnerable to US attacks, not more.
I’m sorry, but I think that must be the stupidest thing I’ve ever read.
if we remove the cancer from the patient, the cancer will be worse, better leave it alone to appease it.
if you evict your violent abusive partner, you will be in more danger, better stay and appease them.
you have a fucking imperialist foreign fascist army that has been threatening an invasion for months. and you’re solution is licking their boots?
It won’t happen.trump isn’t the only one to always chicken out. Brussels is quite a reference in that game.
We sure need to double up on cutting loose from data storage at microslop, google, apple amazon etc. I’m not to worried about apps/software. As long as we have your data, we’ll figure it out.
time to purchase stocks again once the tariffs inevitably make the market crash
Oh no! Impotence is going to tariff again. That thing that has failed utterly to get him what he wants. Oh no!
Oh no. Anyway…
One more time…Where is van der leyen ? She is weak and ineffective in negotiations, and it lacks unity within Europe. Its only contribution is reducing the freedom of peoples and trading with developing countries to continue the dumping, even if it means sacrificing the health of Europeans so its vassals can continue to make profits.
Ufff such a whiny bitch.
The pedophile protector has done whaaaaat?
Just wait for the TACO effect to kick in…
Trump Always Chickens Out
Do 100% once and for all and fuck off to your shitty corner of the globe
Translation:
Trump is raising taxes on Americans so he can
Wait, does Trump just want a bigger pedophile island than his buddy Epstein had?
Ah, the irony jokers, i remember when they won ww2 with their wit.
no taxation without representation is an anti trump slogan now
Oh, no. The Americans are taxing themselves again to own the libs
Tariff the libs to spiderface
Oh I see so now he’s angry at everyone. Not that I think that America should be able to get Greenland but even if I did it’s not as if say the UK or France has any say on the matter, so why are they being tariffed?
France, UK and most of Europe are part of NATO and in recent days have sent small military forces to Greenland to show that, unlike the US, they will honour their alliances.
Trump is trying to break NATO because it’s what daddy Putin wants him to do.
I really don’t think that Trump is taking these orders from Putin. Trump is jealous of Putin’s power and wants to seem stronger so he needs a land-grab to make his pee-pee seem bigger.
Whoever the source, some billionaire or government official convinced him it was a good idea and his smoothie brain is going along with it. I just wish the rest of the world didn’t have to literally die as a result of this (his state of mind & ego), but apparently, that’s too much to ask.
I think the numbers are around 50 military personnel from Europe. Hardly a show of force.
It’s not the numbers, yet. It’s the message it sends.
OK. So anyway, did you know that that fleas jump?
Not sure we care anymore, since the free trade agreement between EU and Mercosur was signed today. We don’t really need to trade with the US anymore. South America provides a huge export market for our products, and they supply better quality agricultural imports than the US can anyway.
As an Australian I am hoping this fastrackts the Australian one with the EI but our government is so far up the US’s arse, possibly were getting pressure from the US not to.
Anything that brings the world closer together is a good thing!
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I don’t know for UK, but I’d reckon most of the commercial deficit in EU wrt USA is gas, not food.
Time to thank all politicians in Europe who were reluctant to decarbonate the economy because it’s bAd fOr bUsInEsS.
Today we count how much money they’re sending Russia by buying gas vs Ukraine by providing military equipment. All good for the business I guess.
Today we assess how dependent on US gas the EU is in time of crisis. All good for the business too, I guess.
In this context, rolling back the ban on gas cars in 2035 is another great geopolitical move that will guarantee EU’s future amidst international tension and resources depletion (oil extraction is to drop by half from 2030 to 2050, and that means producers will slow exportations and use is primarily for their internal needs).
Exactly, think of all the billions that have been spent to subsidize renewable energy instead of building insulation, public transport, heat pumps, etc. The net balance would have been better (more energy saved than supply increased) and it would have shifted the mix from fossil to electricity more.
OK.
Yep. And at this point, any EU company who hasn’t made steps towards not relying on the US market deserves the shitstorm coming their way
Sanction how personal properties including golf courses, hotels, and other industries. It’s the only language he understands
How’s that policy of appeasement and boot-licking going now, Kier?
Starmer really thought that being a doormat for the playground bully meant he would get to keep his lunch money.
I am still shocked that the party in power is not some ultra conservative one with the way that government administration is operating in the UK.
Well short of a coup or government collapse/dissolution, we’ve got to wait for an election.
We’ve got to hope Polanski and Sultana have got their feet underneath them by then.
As an outsider, am I crazy for thinking the leaders of the smaller more “extreme” parties like Sinn Féin or the SNP keep sounding more reasonable?
More reasonable than who?
The older parties might be done with for now. Labour and Conservative.
SNP isn’t that extreme. It’s actually very very popular in Scotland.
I guess if that part of the problem with calling things extreme is that if you’re extremely far from centre yourself, the centrists sound extreme. So it’s a little hard to answer your question.
The ‘challenger’ parties like Green, “Your Party” and Reform are very popular, especially with the young and the poor.
I think a lot of people expect them to take a lot of local seats and councils in the next few years.
And while Reform has been dragging Labour to the right (with not a lot of protest from Kier, I think), some of these new leftist parties will hopefully drag him back to at least the centre. Just though influencing the soulless polling he seems to use to decide what he cares about in any given month.
More reasonable then labor for sure, I was shocked to see them go authoritarian like they have. At least there is some other parties to move support to that seem to understand that cracking down on the population is somewhat unpopular. Here in Canada we have seemed to ruined all the options on reasonable parties so at least hearing there is traction with new parties gives me some hope.
It’s more than “one man”, even though he is a major contributor to the chaos.
There are a lot of other horrble people standing in the shadows pulling Trump’s puppet strings.
Tarrif away shittler.
Wish the military would arrest him
Alright I just won’t buy stuff from America like I already have been for like the last 11 months
It’s the other way, tariffs on import to the US.
Ok, I will continue to not sell goods to the states then.
No, no, that’s the point. You should sell them even more (at a higher price).
? why would someone do that, we don’t get those tariffs.
Hell why would any non us entity want to give money in any way to trump?
So that they get so deep into recession that they cannot lie their way out of it? But you make a valid counterpoint.
For now. Let’s hope EU leadership has grown a spine since last time :)))
There have been some reports in the last 48 hours that they are talking about scrapping the trade deal with the US (rather than ratifying it as they had been scheduled to do).
It would be a reasonable move, especially since Trump never honours his agreements anyway.
Sounds to me like the UK should just drop all the agreements it made to avoid tariffs and give trumpler a solid kick in the balls.
If Europe grows a back bone and actually starts a full on Trade War with the US, I wouldn’t be surprised if China joined in. I could see them carefully timing their action to maximize damage.
China doesn’t even need to really join. They can just announce “looks like US bonds are losing value and we’re going to sell crapload of them in order to secure our investments”. No need to mention trade wars or do anything else.
I hate how every news article about tariffs implies that the country is the one being damaged by this. When in reality it’s the us citizens being damaged.
Should read “Trump threatens us citizens with tariff on Greenland…”
The countries are indeed damaged because of it but not even close to as bad as it hurts the US population
i.e US citizens will be paying %10 for stuff imported from these countries
Mans dead set on ruining the American economy huh?
Just the American economy!? The entire global order has been upended
That should read, Trump plans to punish Americans by adding taxes on trade with countries unwilling to abide by his tantrums
I’m absolutely certain he’s dying and thinks he can make the legacy he leaves behind ‘America was at it’s territorial height under President Trump’ instead of ‘Donald Trump lied, cheated, and stole his way into the US presidency, thus weakening America forever’
Don’t give me hope like that.
Technically, we all are dying,it’s just a matter of how long it will take.
In the Cheetos case, I am hoping it’ll be less than a year left
Oh, but I bet his successor will be worse
Absolutely
Didn’t he say something about this being his last Christmas or am I misremembering?
He’s been talking about dying a lot, which sort of keys us in on what’s on his mind since he has zero filter
His legacy will be that of the pedo rapist president who throws tantrums.
He’s lost all credibility. I can imagine all States assume dealing with him is about not crossing in front of his personal interests and giving money to buy his will. Those are the two things to consider. As Europe has fallen in the first group, it’s time to be strong and stop him.
Every country who does not want to be a target for the US needs to urgently develop a nuclear arsenal with intercontinental delivery systems. The world is currently at the mercy of an 80 year old narcissistic toddler for the second time in less than 100 years, the only thing that will stop such a man is strength.
France and England have enough to be a deterrent. I think around 500 between the two of them. And France has like 200 on active deployment, I think because of Russia.
I think that the US should be split into 50 new independent nations.
All the Republican led ones will slide into third world banana republic dictatorships that soon won’t be able to feed their own population, bit that is their own problem. At least the rest of the nations can continue to develop into normal states where people have actual freedom
That’s the Republican goal honestly, but they don’t seem to understand the eventual ramifications. Without blue states to prop them up financially, what’s going to happen? They get to be dictators of dirt piles. The poor folks who can’t flee the state will stay and their lives will become hell. A few libertarians might move in, so they can start child prostitution ranches or whatever lights their fire. More or less anarchy, like dual authoritarian/libertarian path that Trump is laying out. Just… scary to think about. I’ll have to abandon my beloved historic home in the South, but also, would be nice to not look at a homeless guy sleeping under cardboard a block away (it’s 34* F) because these morons won’t pass a single tax to improve things. Sigh.
We gotta launch a #FreeCalifornia hashtag or something
I’m really happy that the EU is seeking for new commercial partners
He’s such a fucking idiot