Posted on 04/03/2025 1:07:45 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
The European Union, which has been hit with tariffs twice as high as post-Brexit Britain given the bloc’s protectionist policies and tariffs on imports, is expressing its distress and even outrage at President Trump’s bid to reform the United States’ trade relationship with the world.
Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz who is still technically in power nearly six weeks after he lost the Federal elections in February spoke in defence of the globalist status quo on Thursday. He said “This is an attack on a trade order that has created prosperity all over the globe”, called Trump’s policy “fundamentally wrong”, and warned “there will only be losers”, reports Tagesspiegel.
Scholz told the European Union to “flex its muscles”, indicating a knee-jerk reaction of retaliation rather than taking — for instance — the UK’s approach of negotiating
Several European leaders, including Germany’s Foreign Minister have tried to rebrand what Trump calls his ‘Liberation Day’ as ‘Inflation Day’, buttressing the official messaging to European voters that this change will be inflationary.
But as damaging as Germany claims Trump’s retaliation against European Union tariffs will be, the reasoning of the leftist government is that Trump’s resolve is actually weak and he will fold quickly, if only the European Union would stand up to him. Minister for Economic Affairs and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck said he believed President Trump would cancel the tariff policy if he was put under enough international pressure, saying “This pressure must be exerted now”.
He said “everything is on the table” to fight back against the U.S. and floated new taxes on American ‘digital giants’. The view that Trump will relent quickly appears to be .
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The day you tell the lazy brother in law to get a job.
No more Uncle Sucker.
called Trump’s policy “fundamentally wrong”, and warned “there will only be losers”,
If its so wrong why do you use them against our goods? Or China’s?
Hypocritical liars...
The ones screaming the loudest are the ones losing the worst.
If this punk is upset we know it is the right thing to do.
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Looks like Olaf got mauled by wolves (Olaf’s Frozen Adventure).
Now remove all our military out of Germany. Poland wants us .
President Trump needs to constantly talk about how globalists have tried to destroy America, and the Treason that globalism is.
Is this the same German government that turned off a huuuuge part of their energy production? They shut down all of the electricity generated from nuclear power plants. Even if there were no tariffs, any company depending upon inexpensive, abundant energy would be foolish to set up in Germany.
With all the businesses opening and expanding production in America, it is time to play that Neil Diamond song: They’re Coming To America
“‘Attack on the Global Trade Order’ Cries German Chancellor, Warning Trump’s Tariffs ‘Fundamentally Wrong’”
but apparently Germany’s longstanding tariffs on U.S. Goods are fundamentally good, right Chancellor?
Embrace the suck Olaf Scholz. We are coming for you and your government of creeps and moochers.
Welcome to payback city, you ungrateful German turds. This is my face when I read another article where Eurotrash whine about taking their own medicine:
There he goes, the Chris Coons lookalike. Now if Coons would retire, so much the better.
So does Texas.
OK, Fritz, you drop your tariffs and we’ll drop ours.
Didn’t Coons sacrifice his ginger daughter to Demented Joe?
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