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Trump vows to cut off ‘all trade’ with Spain over lack of support on Iran attack
The New York Post ^ | 03/03/2026 | Emily Goodin

Posted on 03/03/2026 10:13:08 AM PST by thegagline

President Trump announced the US is going to “cut off all trade with Spain” over Madrid’s lack of support for the attack on Iran.

“We were going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don’t want anything to do with Spain,” he said during an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Trump spent several minutes complaining about the NATO allies’ refusal to allow the US to use their military bases to attack Iran and argued that they don’t spend enough on defense. “Spain has been terrible,” he said. “Spain actually said that we can’t use their bases.”

“They were unfriendly,” Trump added. “Spain has absolutely nothing that we need other than great people. They have great people, but they don’t have great leadership.”

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From the Department of With Friends Like These.

How about cutting off all trade with China, which unleashed COVID on the world, kills 70,000 Americans a year through fentanyl, steals billions of dollars of intellectual property, circumvents the oil embargoes of Russia and Iran, and brought us such culinary abominations as sweet and sour chicken and crab rangoon?

1 posted on 03/03/2026 10:13:08 AM PST by thegagline
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To: thegagline

Thanks for the advice. ;-)

It does read a little like having Johnny Depp for a President.

“Spain has been terrible!” - “The word is ‘egregious’...”


2 posted on 03/03/2026 10:20:18 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: thegagline

Every country turning its back on us after we’ve protected and fought to free their butts, ESAD.
They deserve to get left behind.
Spain can enjoy its new Muslim commie majority.


3 posted on 03/03/2026 10:25:54 AM PST by 1ScrappyArmyMom
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To: thegagline

“How about cutting off all trade with China?”

We are working on that but there is a very
great cost.
We can switch to other lower cost labor nations for goods,
However China has a lot of investment/ownership in our country and getting them under our control will be difficult.
American “Citizens” with Chinese loyalties is very
hard to combat in our system that values freedoms
and a diversity of personal values.


4 posted on 03/03/2026 10:29:29 AM PST by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: thegagline

Pull our one military base out of Spain.


5 posted on 03/03/2026 10:31:17 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird

Pull out of NATO. End EU defense welfare.


6 posted on 03/03/2026 10:33:07 AM PST by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: thegagline

“How about cutting off all trade with China”

Not. Viable.


7 posted on 03/03/2026 10:33:11 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....I voted for this too!)
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To: thegagline

Because the globalist elites sent most our manufacturing to China. What does Spain have to offer. Olives? BFD


8 posted on 03/03/2026 10:33:15 AM PST by cp124 (Bring back the Constitution.)
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To: thegagline

Spain the latest country to FAFO.


9 posted on 03/03/2026 10:33:51 AM PST by Blue Highway ( )
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To: thegagline

How about cutting off all trade with China”

Your suggestion is so naive and short sighted it is staggering. We cannot just stop trade with China as good as that seems. It would be great if we could but the ripples would be catastrophic.


10 posted on 03/03/2026 10:34:58 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: thegagline

I would like to see our military forces pulled out of Spain too. Forget them, let them fend for themselves.


11 posted on 03/03/2026 10:39:14 AM PST by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: SaxxonWoods

Not viable, but necessary.


12 posted on 03/03/2026 10:41:36 AM PST by Kleon
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To: thegagline

Trump uses levers of power.

Spain, living in it’s own private Idaho and lucky they are only losing trade with the US.


13 posted on 03/03/2026 10:43:03 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: thegagline

Guess I won’t be getting my Jamon anytime soon. Oh well.


14 posted on 03/03/2026 10:44:08 AM PST by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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To: Kleon

“Not viable, but necessary.”

Not. Happening.


15 posted on 03/03/2026 10:44:29 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....I voted for this too!)
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To: thegagline

Spain is full of Bull


16 posted on 03/03/2026 10:45:27 AM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: thegagline

If I had to bet I would say Crab Rangoon is an American invention.


17 posted on 03/03/2026 10:49:29 AM PST by 03A3 (If we can defund the police, we sure as hell can defund the FBI)
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To: gibsonguy
Your suggestion is so naive and short sighted it is staggering. We cannot just stop trade with China as good as that seems.

Come on man! On the Internet from behind a cozy monitor all things are possible!

18 posted on 03/03/2026 10:53:10 AM PST by Fury
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To: gibsonguy
Your suggestion is so naive and short sighted it is staggering

Your callous disregard for the over 70,000 Americans killed every year by the Chinese fentanyl cartel, and the approximately one million killed by the Chinese manufactured COVID epidemic speaks volumes.

Do you get paid in renminbi or crypto?

19 posted on 03/03/2026 10:54:50 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowel)
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To: chickenlips
Pull out of NATO. End EU defense welfare.

This is probably coming.

Once done, it will essentially give the green light for more nations to develop nukes.

And I believe they will, to be used as a deterrent against attack from the East, etc.

20 posted on 03/03/2026 10:55:10 AM PST by Fury
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