In a late-night social media post, the president said he would impose “large scale” tariffs if Canada and the European Union allied to “do economic harm” to America.
  • @[email protected]English
    35•3 months ago

    The president of the United States of America is angry that starting a trade war has started a trade war. I would be appalled, if this wasn’t just par for the course at this point.

  • alterforlett English
    37•3 months ago

    On the off chance any trump supporters are reading this. We are, hopefully, banding closer together because your leaders are alienating you from us. We never wanted this trade war and we never asked to have our sovereignty threatened.

    It’s not against you. It’s for us. You’re stepping away from your allies, so we have to be closer.

  • Goldholz English
    58•3 months ago

    Hey canada, wanna do it even harder now? - best love, europe

    • @[email protected]English
      6•3 months ago

      Aye, good fellow, thou speak’st with the wisdom of the ancients! Let it be known across the land that Europe and Canada, bound by blood, wit, and old-world cunning, shall stand as one against the brash and boisterous Yanks!

      Let them boast of their might and prattle of their triumphs, yet we shall meet them with a union most steadfast, a league of wisdom and steel, tempered in the fires of history. With Europe’s age-old craft and Canada’s hardy spirit, we shall make merry sport of them, and with jest and jesting, lay them low in fair contest!

      So raise thy flag, grasp thy quill or sword, and let us set forth, for victory shall be ours, and the Yanks shall rue the day they thought to best the Old World and its northern kin! What say’st thou?

      • Goldholz English
        2•3 months ago

        I say: Lets bring the rebelling colonies back in line! No matter how bleak the days may seem. As long as the free world stands together, a fortress of true democracy, true freedom, we shall prevale.

        Rise now we shall, work today for a golden future tomorrow! That those that come after us will say “see these mighty people, ordinary men, woman and others. Standing ground, standing firm in the face of opression. Not bending to get comfort, but withstanding hardship and let the rotten corps of their enemy decay by itself!”

        An age as golden as canadas Maple syrup, as golden as french cheese, as golden as german beer, as golden as italian instruments, as golden as polish roofs, as golden as the scandinavian hair, as golden as iberian drylands! A golden future awaits us once we gotten rid of the bold eagles chains!

  • karel3sEnglish
    12•3 months ago

    “… in order to protect the best friend that each of those two countries has ever had”. So Europe is a country now 😏?

  • @[email protected]English
    4•3 months ago
    (cross-community) mega post ?

    6 posts now on this :

    article from cnbc : https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/27/trump-threatens-far-larger-tariffs-on-eu-and-canada-.html
    .
    at … [email protected]
    and [email protected]
    … same post + same article … here :
    https://lemmy.world/post/27449740 (L.W)
    https://lemmy.world/post/27445411 (.au)
    .
    at !Economy
    … same post + same article … here :
    https://lemmy.world/post/27444207

    at !Economics
    … same post + same article … here :
    https://lemmy.world/post/27449188

    also article :
    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/world/europe/trump-tariff-threat-canada-eu.html
    .
    at [email protected]
    and L.W …
    … same news … here :
    https://lemmy.world/post/27449187
    https://lemmy.world/post/27450369 (L.W)

    • @[email protected]English
      3•3 months ago

      This is the main issue I have while using Lemmy for a few weeks now. Echo chambers really become each other’s echoes. The amount of deja vu ‘news’ that I have already seen a week ago from another community on another instance is too high. The same discussion goes on repeat. Feels like going in circles.

  • @[email protected]English
    90•3 months ago

    “I keep making the tariffs worse, and when you agreed to do what I wanted for border security, I made the tariffs worse, and if you don’t do what I want, I’ll make the tariffs worse, and if you start working together to negate how bad the tariffs are, I’ll make the tariffs worse!”

    If this only moves in one direction regardless of what anyone does, prepare for the entire world to just act like you do not exist at all.

    • InEnduringGrowStrongEnglish
      30•3 months ago

      I just assume tariffs will hit 9000% eventually.
      That is… if Trump and his fuckers realize taxes and percentages can exceed 100%.

      It is already a lost cause.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)English
      4•3 months ago

      Reminds me of that scene from the emperor’s new groove

      “Tell us where they are and I’ll burn your house down!”

      “Don’t you mean or?”