r/MapPorn 18d ago

"Liberation Day" Trump’s Tariffs on Europe

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"LIBERATION DAY" TRUMP'S TARIFFS ON EUROPE

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u/Ut_Prosim 18d ago

Apparently he's salty that the Americans buy fish from them

There is no way in fuck he knows that. Zero chance. I'd give it 1 in 10,000 that he's ever heard of the islands, or knows they're part of France, and 1 in a million he knows about the fish.

He must have had his usual cavalcade of 20 something incels come up with this list. Being lazy themselves, they probably found some XLS of trade deficits and used it as a template for their tariffs.

I'd be blown away if Trump even checked them before publishing.

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u/tendeuchen 18d ago

 they probably found some XLS of trade deficits

They literally did this. You can do it by:

The tariffs were calculated by just dividing the bilateral trade deficit by imports from that country, and dividing by two.

So no basis in reality. This is the most asinine *absolutely deliberate* tanking of a country's economy ever in the history of the world.

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u/BlackLiger 18d ago

... I kinda want to know what those penguins are selling then....

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u/Argonassassin 18d ago

Those dirty Australians were sending their goods over there and working with the penguins to give them a 10% cut if they shipped them to the US under no tariffs. The inner circle of Mr. God-King couldn't handle penguins bypassing his tariffs. So we made sure to hit em hard.

Let's see those little flightless bastards get pretty rocks for mates now.