Re: EU tariffs delayed till 7/9

OldManRiver · 2025-05-26T01:01:26.380Z

Trump just needs to remain silent and be thought a fool, he just keeps opening his pie hole to prove it. The rest of the world would be better off ignoring his little tantrums and tweets. Better yet just call his bluff cause the as the old saying goes he ain’t got no clothes. We on the other hand gotta hope the Senate finds some testicular fortitude and shoots down the big beautiful debt bill passed by the House.

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Trump-47 has the leverage - and he is using it

May 25, 2025, 9:56 PM

The EU had, in response to the Arky stage tariff negotiations, believed that they were on a glide path towards working down the 20% tariffs (again, that being the in-process tariff benchmark from the early rounds of negotiations).

Per their usual behavior, the EU countries then proceeded to diddle around and work like bureaucrats. ‘Working like bureaucrats’ means working at a leisurely pace with the expectation that everything was back to normal, with America being the chump again.

Trump-47 don’t play that. He threatens a 50% tariff with June 1 implementation date. The EU bureaucrats, not having learned their lesson the first time, revert to their delaying and ‘let’s talk it out over the next 6 months’ tactic.

Tick tock tick tock. June 1 approaches and no indication that ‘more talks’ I.e., delaying tactics without a deadline target. The EU blinks.

Now, the EU promises to have a serious counter proposal but will need until July 9 to get it done. Trump happily agrees to this, and as a gesture of good faith postpones implementation of the 50% tariffs.

This, my friends, is textbook of how the negotiator with the leverage (e.g., America in this case) negotiates.

Class dismissed.

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Weren't we told the tariffs would bring us great prosperity? If so, why delay them. Implement them now! The tariffs also we were told would help to bring back manufacturing. Let's do it!

Trump also espoused the idea of the tariffs serving as the External Revenue Service making the IRS, essentially not necessary.

He keeps teasing us instead of giving us the magnificent gift of tariffs.

I'm all for better deals for American goods gaining entry into other countries, but this bipolar method of negotiating thus far is not producing big beautiful results.

How many deals have been consummated since Trump started this process? For our sake, I can only hope that he is somehow successful, but the approach thus far is not encouraging.

EU tariffs delayed till 7/9