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.
With a mortar launcher
God damn it feels good to be the good guys. Cheers france, we’ll have some eh
May as well just make the tariffs 4000%.
Do it pussy.
I’m guessing that the people who buy actual Champagne in the US don’t notice the price and won’t notice the tariffs. Plus $100, $200, $1000 per bottle - whatever.
What a pissant he is.
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!
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!
“Bored of piss”. Merde alors motherfucker.
Didn’t the supre court said that those tariffs were ilegal and the government is going to reimburse like a trillion?
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
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.
Trump is having a speed-run on running the US into the ground as hard as possible. You clowns that voted this Nazi in 🤡👏
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.
Isn’t that extortion?
Trump’s always wanted to be a mobster, even though he lacks the skill.
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.
is that still a crime? murder is only a crime if it happens to you.
france;; line them up;;
At this point, we need such tools to surgically remove this cancer
Oh noes!
Where ever will we find another market for the best wine in the world?
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
