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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    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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    Sanction how personal properties including golf courses, hotels, and other industries. It’s the only language he understands

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    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?

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      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.

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    Translation:

    Trump is raising taxes on Americans so he can

    1. Buy Greenland for his buddies
    2. Pay for invading Greenland for his buddies
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    Wait, does Trump just want a bigger pedophile island than his buddy Epstein had?

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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).

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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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    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.

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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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        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.

      • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip
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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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        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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        Eventually we’ll find out both Hitler and Churchill are in the Epstein files.

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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. 😂