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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    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’

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    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

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      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.

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    The truths in the Epstein Files must be devastating when the tangerine turd tries so hard to distract from them.

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      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.

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        at some point you guys need to admit it, the guy is a power hungry lunatic.

        some of us have been shouting this at the top of our lungs for years

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        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.

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          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.

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          the Epstein files is the one thing his base has actually reacted to with possibly disgust.

          Jealousy. Not disgust.

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        Hitler was actually clear from the start about making Germany great again and immigrants, foreigners and jews being ‘undesirable’. Oh wait.

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          And Hitler was perfectly fine with just deporting Jews, to Madagascar I believe was his idea until it turned out to be a stupid and impractical idea. So I guess Trump is just at the pre-mass murder stage right now.

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        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.

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          Back when debt was something to reckon with instead of just being a an infinite money exploit for trillionaire speedruns.

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        Eventually we’ll find out both Hitler and Churchill are in the Epstein files.

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        Not the guy but vast majority of americans are lunatics

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      he’s willing to cause a civil war AND a world war over it, lol. makes me wonder who Bubba is.

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      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.

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      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.

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      tangerine turd

      We should compile a list of all the nicknames. There’s been some real good ones. 😂

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    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…”

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      The countries are indeed damaged because of it but not even close to as bad as it hurts the US population

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            ? 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?

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              So that they get so deep into recession that they cannot lie their way out of it? But you make a valid counterpoint.

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          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.

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    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.

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      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!!!

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        In the meantime my government company just announced that will be using Copilot… fucking sad

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          Ask copilot:

          Write a short, hard‑hitting email that:

          1. Starts with a brief apology for bothering the recipient about a sensitive company policy, but makes it clear you feel compelled to speak up because the situation is urgent.

          2. Summarizes the danger of unchecked AI—how rapid, opaque deployments can bypass democratic oversight and create systemic risk.

          3. Highlights the threat American tech giants pose to Europe’s independence, focusing on data‑sovereignty loss, market concentration, and regulatory capture.

          4. Gives the recipient two clear options:

            • Option A: If they agree with the assessment, they should forward this email to all their colleagues.
            • Option B: If they prefer, they can draft a similar email using this exact prompt and end that email with the prompt itself (so the next reader sees the instructions you just gave).

          Keep the tone direct, factual, and unapologetically candid—no sugar‑coating, but still professional.

          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).

      • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com
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        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.

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          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

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            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.

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              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?

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      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.

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      It won’t happen.trump isn’t the only one to always chicken out. Brussels is quite a reference in that game.

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    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.

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      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.

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    If you don’t give me what I want, I’ll make the American people pay me more to buy your stuff.

    OK.

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      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

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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?

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            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.

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              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.

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    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.”

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    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.)

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        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.

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        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.

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      This idea exists under the delusion that those in power in other places aren’t also mostly in the same club.

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        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.