Trump’s post immediately pushed down U.S. stock futures and European markets, with indexes in Germany and France plunging 2%.

Donald Trump threatened imports from the European Union with a sweeping 50% tariff Friday, posting online that trade talks with the bloc are “going nowhere.”

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote that he was “recommending a straight 50% Tariff on the European Union, starting on June 1, 2025.”

Just minutes earlier, Trump had also threatened Apple with a 25% tariff if it does not start producing iPhones in the United States — an outcome industry experts broadly see as a nonstarter.

“The concept of Apple producing iPhones in the U.S. is a fairy tale,” prominent tech analyst Dan Ives said in response to Trump’s threat Friday.

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    Please go ahead, it should make more people aware of the boycott movement.

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      If you had a brace of five-syllable lines bracketing that and managed to reference the season, you’d have a perfect haiku.

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    I would have thought by now even the most financially illitterate americans would have had how tariffs work and impact them explained by now, but people still arent rioting that he is taxing the ever-loving shit out of his own people? (And destroying the USAs global economic power in the process)

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    Just remember that some important projects are tittering on bankruptcy and success and are depending on collaboration with EU. If the tariffs affect the final cost, then the projects will fail. Simple as that. And you won’t get your IPod nano for Christmas.

    All of these tariff wars are so depressing to all of us just trying to get cool stuff made.

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      “I’ve made 200 deals.”

      Donald Trump, April 25th 2025

      Then people pointed out that’s more deals than there are countries, then he started whining about how no one would make a deal with him. And now I think he made one deal with the UK, which he’ll probably go back on next week.

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        UK just made a deal with EU including foods. This will make a chlorinated American chicken deal impossible. So I bet Trump could be pretty pissed about that if anybody tells him.

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    what I was expecting as well. he was waiting for the stock market to recover for his friends to sell, now that it’s almost back to Biden levels he can crash it again