Trump announces tariffs of 30% on the European Union, starting August 1.
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since when is the president of the European commission addressed as your excellency
In the UN, everyone is addressed like that, including the heads of missions. I wouldn't be surprised if the presidents of the European Commission and European Council also get addressed like this.
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This may be a stupid question, but... is "Excellency" used in a presidential context?:| I've only ever known it to be used when talking about monarchy and the Pope...
It's mostly used in an international political context. In the UN, it's what everyone uses, so why not?
Generally, ambassadors and leaders of UN missions get the form of address too, so I guess it makes sense, even if it's a bit archaic.
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So basically they're paying us 30% more for our products? Sure, why not.
American consumers pay it to the importer, who pays it to the US government, who funnel directly into the pockets of Trump's cronies.
The EU might sell a little less over it, but it probably means that a lot of "To: USA" labels are getting swapped out for "To: China"..
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Ah yes my favorite Country, the European Union.
European confederation vibes đ€©
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You will never be disappointed with The United States of America.
Is the whole thing satire?
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Does he sign in fucking sharpie
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I'd have thrown that in the bin as spam if I didn't know better
Frame it and hang it in the toilet.
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Does he sign in fucking sharpie
honestly, if you handed him a fountain pen, i don't think he'd figure out how to use it.
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Ah yes my favorite Country, the European Union.
Trump is a eurofederalist icon now I guess
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It's just next level Covfefe
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I can't decide what's the
bestworstbestmost stand-out part, I keep coming back and rereading.You will never be disappointed with The United States of America.
Are you selling us a car?
Therefore, we invite you to participate in the extraordinary Economy of the United States, the Number One Market in the World, by far.
We'd absolutely LOVE to but unfortunately we have to wash our hair. So sorry. Next time, for sure. Love you, kisses!
you will never be disappointed
Oh I am right now.
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USA is namba waan!
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In ideal world EU should agree on a handful of red state exports on which we'd apply say 10%, let the US exporters explain their president why that's wrong and only then enter the negotiations with the US and whatever then the outcome is GET IT IN THE WRITING with his signature.
Yes, he would then try to blame the "evil EU", but having a written and signed agreement is the only way to prevent this monthly "it's on - and now it's off" charade.
Now unfortunately even if anybody had the balls to actually propose it there is too many actors who would shoot any such proposal down. Be it because of fear for their exports or just to be contrarian.
Getting something in writing and signed by Trump isn't worth much. He'll still change his mind and tear it up next week.
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These Tariffs may be modified, upward or downward, depending on our relationship with your Country.
First, what the fuck is that random capitalization?
Second, so your giving us in writing, that these tariffs
maywill be modified at will if you feel so.Third, which country are you talking about? Europe is a continent. EU is a union of independent countries/nations.
At first I thought it might be a standing point for OrbĂĄn to point out that they want this (but the bad EU, yadda yadda), but after actually reading that garbage of a propaganda piece, I can only imagine that part is boiler-plate, and noone along the chain caught it or could be bothered with correcting it.
Trump is serving up the distmantling of most US soft powers. Like how is this not a game of chicken for us to bunch up on Ireland and tell them no more fucking around with appl and alphabet. I'd love nothing more than a third level bureaucrat tucked away in Strassbourg to calculate exactly how much societal and global harm these companies cause. We could shift that into dollars (somehow?), and make sure they pay that tax, or we start filtering their sites. I rarely believe restriction is the way to go, but nothing would really be lost here.
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What is even fucking going on? It feels like a child touching random shit on their parents phone, opening apps and accidently calling and buying things. Meanwhile the rest of the world just goes wtf.
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Itâs like half a month so he can go back and forth 2-3 times. Letâs see.
It's so much back and forth all the time, that I don't even know anymore what the current tariff rate is. 10%? None? Probably not even worth remembering though, because it changes all the time randomly anyway
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USA is namba waan!
wrote last edited by [email protected]They are on the way to become better than namba 1...at this rate they're going to become namba zero.
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Is that supposed to be English?
they should get the president of Liberia to translate
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This may be a stupid question, but... is "Excellency" used in a presidential context?:| I've only ever known it to be used when talking about monarchy and the Pope...
What do you mean? A monarch is generally addressed as âMajestyâ or â(Royal) Highnessâ (depending on rank), the Pope is addressed as âHolinessâ. âExcellencyâ is generally used for civil titles; I donât think itâs strange to use âExcellencyâ for the President of the European Commission. What would you use otherwise, âMiss Presidentâ or something? That seems really over the top to me.
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Does he sign in fucking sharpie
What does it even say in the first place. I know it should include either D or Donald and either T or Trump, possibly include J or whatever J stands for. The last teo letter look like ld, but the ones before look like rum, as if he just put something together like DumnldJTummmmld.
