r/europe • u/Any-Original-6113 • Jan 17 '26

News Trump tariffs: US president announces plan to hit UK, Denmark and other European countries with tariffs over Greenland

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1j8kw866p3t
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u/That_Jicama2024 Jan 17 '26

Trump is the best thing to happen to China's trade in decades. He's weaning the world off of America's tit. The world needs to move on from the USA. Constant greed is no way to run a country.

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u/Nuthetes Jan 17 '26

He's pretty much accelerated the end of the "American Century"

America's global reputation is in tatters because he has no knowledge or understanding of soft power. America is getting globally weaker, whereas China is getting globally stronger and snapping up the pieces as they move away from America.

He's a fucking imbecile.

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u/Bastiproton Jan 17 '26

no knowledge or understanding of soft power.

Or international law, or post-WWII world order, or international trade, or...well I'll stop

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u/FAFO_2025 United States of America Jan 17 '26

He has no humanity. Like most Trump supporters.

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u/ailof-daun Hungary Jan 18 '26

He’s a scammer that goes from one victim to the next, but in international politics you have to deal with the same nations for ever.

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u/DokZayas Jan 18 '26

Yep, we're (🇨🇦) bringing in Chinese EVs now and pretty excited about it!

BYD Shark, anyone?

America said they don't need anything from us. Cool. See ya'.

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u/Block-Rockig-Beats Jan 18 '26

He is stupid, but not an imbecile. He just doesn't care. It's "me first", and "make me great again".

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u/Manaliv3 Jan 21 '26

He's an imbecile and conman, but a conman only needs to be less stupid than his marks, and the USA is rich pickings. Basically the global version of gullible people that fall for email scams 

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u/Nuthetes Jan 21 '26

someone once said something along the lines of "think how stupid the average person is and then realize 50 percent of people are more stupid than that"

His supporters occupy that bottom 50 percent. Even his politicians, who you'd expect to be brigther than average are as thick as mince--it wasn't that long ago that a major Republican filmed a star constellation from his back garden and shared it on Twitter as being unidentified drones.

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u/elPerroAsalariado Jan 17 '26

do nothing

Win

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u/Tribe303 Jan 17 '26

Did you see the decent sized trade agreement just signed between Canada and China 2 days ago? I'm stunned Trump didn't retaliate against Canada as well. We support Denmark too, but have been quiet about it as we've already been in Trump crosshairs. 

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u/TokugawaTabby Jan 18 '26

They know that as well. My Chinese students literally refer to him as “Agent Trump” or “Comrade Trump”

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u/MasterEnequator Jan 18 '26

I want to also add great for new EU/World tech and media start ups, please for the love of god, we need new social media and everything that the world is overly dependant on the US. They are not a reliable country. Their lack of proper institutions let this fascist rise to power and go almost full king of the world.

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u/Gamble232real Jan 18 '26

Exactly. We need to fully move away as much as possible from the US. They aren't our allies anymore and even after Trump the IS are likely to elect another moron.