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Donald Trump on Monday, January 19 threatened 200% tariffs on French wine and champagne over France’s intentions to decline the US leader’s invitation to join his “board of peace.” The board was originally conceived to oversee the rebuilding of war-torn Gaza, but the charter does not appear to limit its role to the occupied Palestinian territory.

“I’ll put a 200% tariff on his wines and champagnes. And he’ll join. But he doesn’t have to join,” Trump said, referring to French President Emmanuel Macron. A source close to Macron told AFP on Monday that France “does not intend to answer favorably” to the invitation.

The board’s charter “goes beyond the sole framework of Gaza,” the source close to the French president said.

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    4 hours ago

    you can easily predict Trump’s response to anything by imagining how a spoiled rich kid would behave when he is denied a request

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    5 hours ago

    I wonder how long his gravestone will last with all those people ready to piss on it…

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    You mean all the tariff justifications about getting our fair share and not being economically exploited were bullshit? I am shocked!

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    11 hours ago

    “I cherish peace with all of my heart. I don’t care how many men, women and children I need to kill to get it.”

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    15 hours ago

    Lol, Trump making a “Bored of Peace” is such a fucking joke. I hope this bloated narcissistic psychic vampire shits himself to death on camera and his family gets nuremburg’d. I’ve gone my whole life believing that no one should be subject to capital punishment but I’m starting to believe these undead cockroaches need to be made an example of.

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    15 hours ago

    Americans paying extra, again. Next he will tell us how he has brought prices to another record low plus insert reference to Biden. Thankfully, most people know what things cost.

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      Hah, joke’s on you guys, Trump already crushed our economy starting in his first term that we can’t even afford wine or champagne!

      (Seriously, drinking is falling off a cliff in the US, a lot of people cite health reasons but for most of my life when I heard someone say they’re cutting back for health reasons, they just don’t wanna say they’re broke.)

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    16 hours ago

    I have a bottle of real French champagne for when this evil imbecile pedofile dies. Please help us Europe boycott these Zionist oligarchs and dump the bonds. Don’t join the genocide profiteering Palestine rebuild.