Trump’s post immediately pushed down U.S. stock futures and European markets, with indexes in Germany and France plunging 2%.

Donald Trump threatened imports from the European Union with a sweeping 50% tariff Friday, posting online that trade talks with the bloc are “going nowhere.”

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote that he was “recommending a straight 50% Tariff on the European Union, starting on June 1, 2025.”

Just minutes earlier, Trump had also threatened Apple with a 25% tariff if it does not start producing iPhones in the United States — an outcome industry experts broadly see as a nonstarter.

“The concept of Apple producing iPhones in the U.S. is a fairy tale,” prominent tech analyst Dan Ives said in response to Trump’s threat Friday.

  • @selkiesidhe@lemm.ee
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    66 days ago

    Sounds like that PoS is going to tank the markets again so his billionaire donors can rake in more of our money. Then he will say there was beautiful talks-- of which there wasn’t-- and then say something stupid like we negotiated and I won, 10% tarrifs, I am so gud at this!

    Fucking grifting all the way down.

  • ssillyssadass
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    96 days ago

    “You better give me what I want or I’ll shoot!” He said, his gun aimed squarely at his own foot.

  • @SunshineJogger@feddit.org
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    It’s nuts that the markets still react to this clown.

    By now I would have expected them all to catch on that he is simply a 14 year old internet troll from a YouTube comment section in the body of a dehydrated Ipomoea batatas full of alternaria.

    The things he does (or does not do) will keep changing and being wild. Price that in already.

  • @JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone
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    I would have thought by now even the most financially illitterate americans would have had how tariffs work and impact them explained by now, but people still arent rioting that he is taxing the ever-loving shit out of his own people? (And destroying the USAs global economic power in the process)

  • Hanrahan
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    So, Trump sorted a bunch of Ero stocks then annoined this ?

    TACO trade

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      “I’ve made 200 deals.”

      Donald Trump, April 25th 2025

      Then people pointed out that’s more deals than there are countries, then he started whining about how no one would make a deal with him. And now I think he made one deal with the UK, which he’ll probably go back on next week.

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        UK just made a deal with EU including foods. This will make a chlorinated American chicken deal impossible. So I bet Trump could be pretty pissed about that if anybody tells him.

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    OK Trump, but while you are trying to figure out what the most scary import tax is, and destroying American business globally, we are working on getting rid of American services and weapons. And China is now a less unpopular trading partner than USA in EU!!

    We shall see who wins in the long run…

    • @krashmo@lemmy.world
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      117 days ago

      He’s gonna be dead soon enough one way or another. He doesn’t give a fuck about the future. He’s just trying to profit as much as he can right now.

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        Did you know that before Trump started this, the average tariff in EU on American goods was about 1%?
        So the question is why the fuck Trump really did this? Except we already know, the plan was to use tariffs as the main taxation income for government, and give extreme tax cuts to the rich.
        Trump is trying to be clever, to benefit himself and those that bribe him. But he is really stupid, and after he is finished everybody will be worse off.

  • @1984@lemmy.today
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    237 days ago

    Trump doesnt understand that a deal should benefit both partners, not just him.

    “The EU is so difficult”… Lols.

  • troed
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    EU not bowing to the US king?

    oh noes

    who could’ve guessed

  • Flamekebab
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    167 days ago

    Further distancing us from that bin-fire? Oh no. How awful.

  • kubica
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    Please go ahead, it should make more people aware of the boycott movement.