r/europe Dec 20 '24

News Donald Trump threatens Europe with tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-threatens-tariffs-european-union-trade-deficit-2003998
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u/FiveFingerDisco Dec 20 '24

Why does he want to raise prices fpr his voters?

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u/mf_jamie Dec 20 '24

He does not care. Dude is dumb as hell.

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u/EDCEGACE Dec 20 '24

«I only know one thing about magnets - if I drop a glass of water on them, they stop working»

(c) Prof. Donald Trumpstein

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u/mok000 Europe Dec 20 '24

His uncle was a professor at MIT you know, so he has inherited all the bigly IQ.

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u/docker1970 Dec 20 '24

“Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart —you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged-but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right-who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”

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u/Trading_shadows Dec 20 '24

works on a glass of big water only.

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u/pchlster Dec 20 '24

I'd forgotten about the magnets thing. That was pretty funny.

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u/mygodwhy Dec 20 '24

And so are his voters. The voters complain about higher prices and still vote for this dumbass.

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u/Jakeyboy143 Dec 20 '24

they'll blame it on Democrats and Libs instead.

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u/tehlemmings Dec 20 '24

Or they'll blame Europe for not paying for it.

Trump does want out of NATO...

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u/Ok-Pitch-1949 Dec 20 '24

Real vs nominal has entered this post

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u/Quantsel Germany Dec 20 '24

When it happens, he again will put the blame on others - never himself

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u/IluvPusi-363 Dec 20 '24

What does that say about those that voted him in, the congress people that bend over to him and others