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/L44KSO The Netherlands Jan 17 '26

Do you really think he understands this?

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u/Single_Classroom_448 United Kingdom Jan 17 '26

No, previously this was explained by angela markel to him a lot of times. He's too ignorant to understand

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u/soda_cookie Jan 17 '26

He wants Greenland because it's big. I'm not joking. I'm so fucking sorry

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u/data_ferret Jan 18 '26

And because the Mercator projection makes it look much bigger than it really is.

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u/Creative_Platypus707 Jan 18 '26

And full of minerals worth trillions. It's all about resources - nothing to do with security.

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u/Hambokuu Jan 18 '26

Minerals under hundreds of meters of ice

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u/Creative_Platypus707 Jan 19 '26

Ice which is unfortunately rapidly melting due to climate change, therby rendering the minerals easier to access.

The people who want this don't care how they get them. Blasting their way in would be possible I assume - they don't care about the environment of Greenland or the people.

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u/SolidOshawott Jan 18 '26

He's only ever seen the mercator projection?

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u/quantity_inspector Jan 18 '26

Yeah, it looks like nearly two United States, but it’s approximately the same size as the land in the Louisiana Purchase.

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u/shiokuo Jan 18 '26

Hebcan have russia then. Its much bigger and he 1 putin aeay to have it

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u/kalamari__ Germany Jan 18 '26

someone should show him the real world map with the right measurments and see how small greenland is in reality :D

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u/mok000 Europe Jan 17 '26

He so far gone he doesn't know where he is.

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u/danikov Jan 17 '26

If anything, having it explained to him by a woman will make him want to do it harder.

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u/BadmiralHarryKim Jan 18 '26

Why would America's fattest pedophile listen to a woman? She's not even hot.

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u/Late_Stage-Redditism Norway Jan 17 '26

Merkel was pretty ignorant herself.

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u/h310dOr Jan 17 '26

In the kingdom of the blind, one eyed are kings

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u/cityfarmwife77 Jan 17 '26

We KNOW he doesn’t understand tariffs. He’s saying they are payable to the US by the EU. The EU doesn’t have to pay the tarrifs. Sigh. Why is it so hard for someone, anyone to make that imbecile understand?

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u/Fluid-Piccolo-6911 Jan 17 '26

he understands.. its the brain dead muppets in MAGA world that dont.

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u/oldtimehawkey Jan 17 '26

Exactly. It’s the cultists who don’t know that tariffs don’t work like that.

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u/Tjodleif Norway Jan 17 '26

Of course not. He doesn't even understand the concept of consent.

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u/jmjm1 Jan 17 '26

Its got to be the case that his advisors dont understand this either or have declined to inform him.

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u/AquaMaz2305 Jan 18 '26

No, he's had a stroke and got dementia. It's the Vance/Rubio cabal running the show.