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Trump will ‘buckle under pressure’ if Europe bands together over tariffs, German economy minister says
CNBC ^ | April 03, 2025 | Sophie Kiderlin

Posted on 04/03/2025 8:10:14 AM PDT by Red Badger

Key Points

“That is what I see, that Donald Trump will buckle under pressure, that he corrects his announcements under pressure,” German economy minister Robert Habeck said Thursday.

Elsewhere, outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he believed the latest tariff decisions by Trump were “fundamentally wrong,” according to a CNBC translation.

On Wednesday, Trump imposed 20% levies on the European Union, including on the bloc’s foremost economy Germany.

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KEYWORDS: 666; antiamericanism; cnbc; eurotrash; euroweenies; eussr; fakenews; fourthreich; germany; habeck; nobrainscollectively; nohewont; scholz; sophiekiderlin; tariffs; tds; thebeast
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1 posted on 04/03/2025 8:10:14 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

wanna bet...


2 posted on 04/03/2025 8:10:39 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Red Badger

Just like with Russia, they fundamentally misunderstand what is at stake.


3 posted on 04/03/2025 8:11:15 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Red Badger

You don’t know what you are saying Adolph.


4 posted on 04/03/2025 8:11:44 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: Red Badger

Europe is that brother-in-law who always needs a loan but never pays you back.


5 posted on 04/03/2025 8:12:11 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: Red Badger

You want to play chicken with a New Yorker who is on his second term and independently wealthy to start with? Yeah, okay. Go right ahead there, Hans Gruber.


6 posted on 04/03/2025 8:12:29 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Red Badger

okey-dokey


7 posted on 04/03/2025 8:12:44 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: Red Badger

Over the target


8 posted on 04/03/2025 8:15:08 AM PDT by FatherofFive (we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor)
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To: Red Badger

No. He won’t.

Sorry German chancellor. You have very little leverage


9 posted on 04/03/2025 8:16:09 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Red Badger

They definitely need to pay for their own defense, too.


10 posted on 04/03/2025 8:16:22 AM PDT by Salvavida (NS)
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To: Red Badger

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1328625391760693


11 posted on 04/03/2025 8:17:19 AM PDT by OL Hickory (Jesus and the American soldier-1 died for your soul/1 died for your freedom)
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To: Red Badger

The mice.

They roar.


12 posted on 04/03/2025 8:18:11 AM PDT by Lowell1775
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Of the US total trade deficit of $1T+, China is far and away the largest proportion of that at 35%.

Euro countries as a whole add to about 20% of the total annual US trade deficit. They are too small to represent any pressure.


13 posted on 04/03/2025 8:18:17 AM PDT by Owen
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To: Red Badger

Green party leader.
Global warming hoaxer!


14 posted on 04/03/2025 8:19:07 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: Salvavida

“They definitely need to pay for their own defense, too.”

Don’t forget they need to pay for their offence in Ukraine as well.


15 posted on 04/03/2025 8:19:19 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Red Badger
Trump will “buckle under pressure” like a RHINO will buckle under pressure.
Is the German regime totally studio?
Yup.
16 posted on 04/03/2025 8:19:23 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Red Badger

Buckle under pressure?

Like the way he did when he got SHOT?

✊!✊!✊!


17 posted on 04/03/2025 8:19:26 AM PDT by left that other site (Ask Not What The Left is Doing. Ask What They Are Accusing YOU of Doing.)
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To: AZJeep

Just pull out of NATO.


18 posted on 04/03/2025 8:20:06 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Red Badger

We are still waiting for EU Countries to send “Peacekeepers to YouCraynee
as they said they would do. All talk, no action fro EU Countries.


19 posted on 04/03/2025 8:20:29 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRobr 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: SmokingJoe

studio = stupid


20 posted on 04/03/2025 8:21:49 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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