Donald Trump on Monday, January 19 threatened 200% tariffs on French wine and champagne over France’s intentions to decline the US leader’s invitation to join his “board of peace.” The board was originally conceived to oversee the rebuilding of war-torn Gaza, but the charter does not appear to limit its role to the occupied Palestinian territory.
“I’ll put a 200% tariff on his wines and champagnes. And he’ll join. But he doesn’t have to join,” Trump said, referring to French President Emmanuel Macron. A source close to Macron told AFP on Monday that France “does not intend to answer favorably” to the invitation.
The board’s charter “goes beyond the sole framework of Gaza,” the source close to the French president said.
“Do what I say or else I’ll charge my citizens more for your stuff!”
gottem 😜
So when are we tariffing the shit out of US products?
I’m sure every business in Europe suddenly having to pay 200% extra for Office 365 and mail handling will send them scrambling for a European alternative.
And they won’t go back once they’ve moved.
Yes please, let’s make foss default.
been reading about several mandating open source in government offices. due to low quality, low security microsoft crap. give them more reasons.
I had a talk about this with my boss today. We’d be fairly fucked in my department without Autodesk products. Sure, we could probably get a different software that can do similar things, but the department would become incredibly inefficient very quickly. Our product quality would suffer immensely, and our manual labour hours in production would skyrocket.
Oh yeah you don’t wanna do what I tell you? Just watch me taxe my own citizens than!
Even worse I feel like the only people here that would drink that are Trump friends lol
Trump is having a speed-run on running the US into the ground as hard as possible. You clowns that voted this Nazi in 🤡👏
God damn it feels good to be the good guys. Cheers france, we’ll have some eh
Hah, joke’s on you guys, Trump already crushed our economy starting in his first term that we can’t even afford wine or champagne!
(Seriously, drinking is falling off a cliff in the US, a lot of people cite health reasons but for most of my life when I heard someone say they’re cutting back for health reasons, they just don’t wanna say they’re broke.)
Where ever will we find another market for the best wine in the world?
Didn’t the supre court said that those tariffs were ilegal and the government is going to reimburse like a trillion?
Also didn’t he try that a few years ago and French winemakers didn’t notice the difference?
Has the SCOTUS saying something is illegal stop him? He just does it anyway.
I don’t think so. I think some lower courts did, but the Supreme Court changed the rules to ban “blanket injunctions,” so every wronged party has to bring their case to the courts and considered on a case-by-case basis. I think there’s a case about tariffs that the Supreme Court is supposed to rule on but haven’t yet. The admin, right now, can seemingly do anything it wants by just tying up courts with large numbers of illegal acts. They face no consequences for doing so, and the Supreme Court is mostly complicit (and illegitimate).
I remember reading smth along those lines
Isn’t that extortion?
This gives us the possibility for one of the funniest ends to this, where Trump gets in a pissing match with Italy over something, tries to extort them with tariffs, and the Italian mob takes him out for trying to squeeze in on their territory.
Trump’s always wanted to be a mobster, even though he lacks the skill.
is that still a crime? murder is only a crime if it happens to you.
“Board of Peace” featuring the most evil child fuckers in existence.
“The Ministry of Truth” vibes.
Someone needs to punch him in the mouth.
Yep, the back of it with a flaming sword.
I imagine it would be like punching a rotten cantaloupe
A peace board to which he invited Putin? No thanks, any halfway decent politician should keep away from this.
You forgot tue $1billion price tag.
That’s just the icing on top. I assume that money is supposed to go straight into Trumps pocket, too, and will not be used to finance that thing, or, heaven forbid, rescue, heal, feed, or house the victims.
It;s actually a good thing we can keep those fine wines for ourselves now. The Amercians have no taste whatsoever.
they just need a little ketchup, that’s all.
That’s how they make the white wine red right?
No dumbass, they use fruit punch Gatorade.
Oh gods, delete this shit right now. I do not claim this energy. The ketchup wine will have no place in my mind. Begone from me!
edit: now that I think about it. ketchup should be considered wine. it’s made of fruit, can get vinegary, and has lots of sugar in it.
Toss some yeast in
America produces great wine. It just means you’ll export less of the top and bottom of your market.
Your middle market was always domestic anyways.
No no, they meant taste in political leaders.
Oh… well… can’t really argue against that!
May as well just make the tariffs 4000%.
Do it pussy.
42069%
you can easily predict Trump’s response to anything by imagining how a spoiled rich kid would behave when he is denied a request
Lol, Trump making a “Bored of Peace” is such a fucking joke. I hope this bloated narcissistic psychic vampire shits himself to death on camera and his family gets nuremburg’d. I’ve gone my whole life believing that no one should be subject to capital punishment but I’m starting to believe these undead cockroaches need to be made an example of.
