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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.

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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

"Bored of piss". Merde alors motherfucker.

[–] borQue@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It;s actually a good thing we can keep those fine wines for ourselves now. The Amercians have no taste whatsoever.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 50 minutes ago (1 children)

they just need a little ketchup, that's all.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 43 minutes ago

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!

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 16 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Didn't the supre court said that those tariffs were ilegal and the government is going to reimburse like a trillion?

[–] AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 hours ago

Also didn't he try that a few years ago and French winemakers didn't notice the difference?

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Has the SCOTUS saying something is illegal stop him? He just does it anyway.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago
[–] dunestorm@lemmy.world 24 points 4 hours ago

Trump is having a speed-run on running the US into the ground as hard as possible. You clowns that voted this Nazi in 🤡👏

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

At this point, we need such tools to surgically remove this cancer

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 16 points 4 hours ago (2 children)
[–] hraegsvelmir@ani.social 17 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

is that still a crime? murder is only a crime if it happens to you.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 32 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] TheHotze@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

Yes please, let's make foss default.

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

been reading about several mandating open source in government offices. due to low quality, low security microsoft crap. give them more reasons.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 27 points 5 hours ago

Where ever will we find another market for the best wine in the world?

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 36 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Oh yeah you don't wanna do what I tell you? Just watch me taxe my own citizens than!

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[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Great! They don't deserve great wine.

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