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.
It;s actually a good thing we can keep those fine wines for ourselves now. The Amercians have no taste whatsoever.
Didn’t the supre court said that those tariffs were ilegal and the government is going to reimburse like a trillion?
Also didn’t he try that a few years ago and French winemakers didn’t notice the difference?
Has the SCOTUS saying something is illegal stop him? He just does it anyway.
france;; line them up;;
At this point, we need such tools to surgically remove this cancer
Oh noes!
Trump is having a speed-run on running the US into the ground as hard as possible. You clowns that voted this Nazi in 🤡👏
Isn’t that extortion?
This gives us the possibility for one of the funniest ends to this, where Trump gets in a pissing match with Italy over something, tries to extort them with tariffs, and the Italian mob takes him out for trying to squeeze in on their territory.
is that still a crime? murder is only a crime if it happens to you.
So when are we tariffing the shit out of US products?
I’m sure every business in Europe suddenly having to pay 200% extra for Office 365 and mail handling will send them scrambling for a European alternative.
And they won’t go back once they’ve moved.
Yes please, let’s make foss default.
been reading about several mandating open source in government offices. due to low quality, low security microsoft crap. give them more reasons.
I had a talk about this with my boss today. We’d be fairly fucked in my department without Autodesk products. Sure, we could probably get a different software that can do similar things, but the department would become incredibly inefficient very quickly. Our product quality would suffer immensely, and our manual labour hours in production would skyrocket.
Where ever will we find another market for the best wine in the world?
Great! They don’t deserve great wine.
They don’t need it. They’ve got Paul Masson.
“Mwahhh the French!”
“So just… say anything?”
Someone needs to punch him in the mouth.
Yep, the back of it with a flaming sword.
Oh yeah you don’t wanna do what I tell you? Just watch me taxe my own citizens than!
Even worse I feel like the only people here that would drink that are Trump friends lol
A peace board to which he invited Putin? No thanks, any halfway decent politician should keep away from this.
You forgot tue $1billion price tag.
That’s just the icing on top. I assume that money is supposed to go straight into Trumps pocket, too, and will not be used to finance that thing, or, heaven forbid, rescue, heal, feed, or house the victims.
Ok.
Gonna be the saddest shit ever if the EU placates this dementia-ridden chucklefuck. I’m hoping they can figure out a long-term viable economic plan that cuts out the US but I’m not all that hopeful they won’t just appease him to maintain the status quo.
They really, really need to prioritize separating themselves from dependence on American tech companies and payment processors. That has to be accomplished to shield themselves.
Then they can and should embargo us and seize American assets until we get in line. After which they can resume trade, but keep the assets of the American oligarchs who have refused to defy the fascists.
EU owns twice as many treasuries as anyone else in the world…it’s be mutual suicide, but their economy would die in a fire.
That’s all he knows about France.
I’m sure he knows French fries too.
You must think of freedom fries but indeed he does. During his stunt at a fast food restaurant last campain, he was really impressed to learn that workers don’t actually handle the freedom potatoes with their bare hands. Believe it or not they actually use some sort of spoon to put them in the basket. Crazy huh?
What the fuck is a french fry? You mean Freedom Fries?
You’d think he’d heard of croissants given the size of him
Unless McDonalds do croissants, he wouldn’t
But does he know they’re French too?
Doubt it.
They’re not actually handy to put a grilled beef patty inside, since they size is all wrong and they get soaked and mushy with the juices.
He actually prefers to leave the bun off his burgers anyway. I’m not kidding.
You’ll get him with the fromage.
You reckon he often eats cheese that isn’t square, rubbery, bright yellow, and hidden in a burger?
