cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/45601379
The US president added that he “can do anything I want” with Brussels’ $600 billion worth of pledged investments
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250805165341/https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/trump-threatens-eu-with-35-tariff-if-investment-pledge-falls-through/
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I don’t think he’s winning or has wun anything. Do you?
All I see is a looming US recsession, weakening dollar and Worldtrade.
And yes, hopefully the rest of the world doesn’t get drawn into the psychopathical hole, made of the severe consequences of the most pathetic POTUS ever. Beating his own previous horrendous presidential performace, is the only win he’s had imo.
He got an easy political win though. He nominally got a “deal” (even if the consequences are nefarious) that make it look like the US won and that europe submitted
Only to the child-like view of his idiot base and his naive child like entourage. No reasonable person could come to that conclusion.
But is that not what actually counts? He doesn’t actually get money or power from how the economy does, it’s from how it’s perceived by his population and whether his backers are satisfied.
And even if his actions do hurt his own country’s economy, they also hurt other countries’ economies, so they’re still effective tools for coercion if you don’t actually care that much for the numbers.
I see your point, but saying chocolate rations are up while you and everyone you know lives go to shit probably still counts for something.
Well… he got what he wanted from the EU, didn’t he?
I agree that he wants stupid things and that his policies will most probably backfire, but that’s a different issue.
Not only the so-called agreement with von del Leyen was a PR win: IIUC its only consequence was that US tariffs went from 10% to 15% and that the EU put away its “bazooka” while promising investments in the US (BTW I honestly don’t understand how that would work… it’s not like von der Leyen has a sovereign fund that she can direct to invest in the US) and to buy more US stuff.