if he get's 100% his way and they get zero.......

If you don't deal, he switches to extortion..........

He is like an angry three year old throwing a tantrum if he doesn't get his way....s

Krasnov just spoke with Putin for 2 hours. The EU has taken over the brunt of helping Ukraine in its war with Putin.

Hmm. I think that Krasnov got some orders in that 2 hour phone call.

so someone is probably pissed off.

I think what you posted was a big part of this.
He hasn’t really negotiated anything yet and the EU jumped the gun on him while he was busy on his trip.

iPhones made HERE? Where? Unless they make them in prisons the cost is estimated at at least $3,000 from what I’ve seen. Some estimates are higher.

I just checked mine but it doesn’t say that. It’s pretty old though - 12 mini.

I’m sure it was on the box.

They could just change the determination of the “Made in the US” as is done for several industries.

but was on the box. But I did recently get a newer iPad (10th Generation) when it went on sale (my current, still chugging one is an old iPad Air2), and that newer iPad DOES have the "Designed in California" but also an "Assembled in Vietnam" on the back of it.

You are right though. Re-educating people to fill positions currently filled by “others” isn’t unseeable.

iPhones are very well made and reasonably priced considering all they can do and how reliant we are on them. I hate it for people making it but Apple isn’t going to change that in any meaningful way.

First, watch

He tries to intimidate then gets pissed off when things don't go his way.

"Stalled" means other countries holding their ground while Trump screams at the door that they need to grovel before him and plead to make a deal. Many countries have explained that Trump the "dealmaker" isn't making an offer they can consider. They increasingly don't need the US as a customer, and don't feel they need to do the work since Don gets his jollies from people approaching him like a mafia don to ask favors.

Nothing is safe.

The Dow futures dropped 500 points with the news (and Apple stock was of course down).

ETA - latest blip that just came in less than a minute ago - Dow futures down 650.

...any US business that relies significantly on EU travelers. Pretty certain they won't be coming.

The Felon is overplaying his hand.

Which is what Putin wants him to do.

Because the market can react for a bit and then close. After that, the pundits and spokesmodels will chew on it, and people will be ever so slightly stressed out about it, for all the 3 day weekend start of summer.
Oh boy. That should be really fun.

clear that wall street has been making excuses for this administration since they announced a "temporary" 90 day hold on tariffs, is coming back to haunt them by "assuming" the 90 day pause meant that the tariff issue was all over.

Because well, the facts are horrifying and despair is not an option.
Humor fulfills my need to get over rough ground as lightly as possible.

When I first heard the news this morning I had a vision of President Babyman in his high chair, throwing his cereal on the floor because Europeans were “difficult.”

Poor President Babyman. Life is supposed to be easy.

on tariffs was suddenly over, was gullible at best.

Rubber is now hitting the road, and it should be clear that uncertainty and chaos has always been the hallmark of trump and his thugs.

Per Bloomberg:

"US bond yields have surged this week as President Donald Trump's tax cut plan has ignited concerns that it would add trillons of dollars in comning years to already bulging budget deficvits, at a time when investor appetit is waning for US assets across the globe."

What this means is that interest rates on everything are going to go up, assuming his "big beautiful bill" passes the Senate, and if the past in any prediction of future events, regardless of the tough talk by a few of the rethugs in congress, in the end they will do whatever the sociopath wants.

is the debt ceiling increase and that can actually be pulled out as a standalone reconciliation bill (as one of the reconciliation types). If that is done, it can't be raised again using reconciliation until next FY (which could be after Oct. 1, 2025). That gives the GOP Senate more time, but also revives the "blame game" on raising the debt limit and causing a default (which is why the House wanted to go all or nothing).

His tariffs, the increased deficit, all weaken the dollar. His push to get Powell to lower interest rates also would weaken the dollar.

Yeah baby, look what that has done for Crypto. 16 Democratic senators just voted to boost Crypto. Krasnov has made 3 billion dollars from crypto since becoming president, not counting yesterday's Bribery meet and Greet dinner at Mar-el-Loco.

Things couldn't be going better for Krasnov.

at some sort of a Q&A Saying that the reason they make iPhones in China is because of the dedicated experienced workforce making them. People scoffed saying it was because of low wages. Set aside building and workplace safety requirements here, it’s not just about wages. Granted they do have horrible workplaces (from what we’ve seen) but I think he’s right. I can’t imagine Americans doing that meticulous precise work every day for a series of years. They can walk out and work at Burger King or a gig job at probably the same wage at any time.

Unless Apple can actually make these things IN prisons*, the price is going to be much more and will the work be if the same quality?

*or localities where we tend to put prisons that become reliant on them.

Link to tweet

but the image from the site (I had actually been looking for a postable, more recent one earlier this morning when I saw the Apple tariff story) -

He is really losing it.. crazy as a bat and soon Americans will realize what a stupid mistake it was to reelect a first class jackass! MAGA my ass!!

He is destroying all their businesses.

I hope he burns the movers and shakers to the ground. They so richly deserve it.

and my 401k loses thousands in a single day.

And same.

LOTS of Red



Ed Krassenstein
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BREAKING: President Trump just called for a 50% "straight tariff" on all of the EU, and a 25% tariff on iPhones that are not manufactured in the United States.

He's now attacking our biggest allies, and one of America's most successful companies, as the stock market tanks on the news.

Link to tweet

I thought Trump was the great deal maker?

This will hurt America and Americans not Europe.

And find a safe harbor instrument. I did in February while maintaining my 401K at a low risk.

This is not meant to be financial advice.

The Turd is desperate. The Turd's already failed presidency is now sinking like a large rock thrown into a lake. The Turd's insane economics policies will, in the end, doom both him and his presidency.

If you read the Turd's "tweet" this morning -- you immediately realize that the "fucking moron" has zero understanding of international trade,
international economics; taxation; and, international law for remedies for corporate manipulation of things like violations of trademarks,
copyrights, patents, intellectual property rights and the like which leads to the "lawsuits" this idiot is falsely bitching about.

What a fucking doofus moron! The E.U. has the Turd over a barrel -- they are not going to respond favorably to the Turd's bullshit "threats."

You can take it to the bank that the E.U. has an entirely different perspective on these insane tariffs than that of the "fucking mornon" who is advocating them. Tough days ahead for you, Turd, as your already failed Presidency continues to sink in the toilet you created!

By the way, Turd, Xi Jinping is watching and laughing -- and so is everyone else in the world.

Make it so each of your “opponents” has to negotiate a tariff deal while you have to negotiate 200.

And be po sure to put a deadline on it! That way everyone can wait you out to the end.

He's already shown multiple times that he will wilt and take down the tariffs if the pressure gets too high. This week we're going to see the US bond market plummet even further and we'll see the stock market do the same. All the EU needs to do is wait it out and mouth a few phrases about turning toward India, China and the Pacific rim to take up the slack in buying EU goods.

Trump is a weak weak negotiator. In the end he'll be lucky to get trade deals that are the same as what we had before he came into office.

And they still believe him.

There will be no future for the USA until all perpetrators of crimes under cloak of the Trump regime are prosecuted and jailed.

Here is everyone's late clue to the next insider trading tip of the week/days or ?

requiring Trump kiss every single one. What a wonderful world that would be.

Trump is smarter than a typical five year old, both intellectually and emotionally, I'm yet to see it.

This will be the third time they've pulled this crap. I'm sure Rump tipped off all his buddies on what he was going to do so they had time to dump their stocks.

This sounds like they don't, and now adding 50% is gonna make them come crawling? Worst deal maker ever

flush down the Golden Toilet.

Krasnov is a jerk.

And putting the adults back in charge. If MAGA wants to go blab on the Fox gossip channel, they can do so without ruining the country.

Trump got pissed that Greenland signed a lucrative mineral deal with the European Union, so now he’s proposing a 50% tariff on all imports from the EU. 😡

— AnnieForTruth (@anniefortruth1.bsky.social) 2025-05-23T16:29:10.232Z

One of the jobs a President does is to try and reassure jittery morkets. So what does Trump Do?

On Thursday the bond market jitters was over the Moody's downgrade of American debt and that bleed over into the stock market, which fell 800 points.

On Friday the markets seemed calm after Thursdays news until Trump announced 50% tariffs on Europe, effective June 1st. That sent the stock market into another 500 point drop, cutting short the 90-day tariff postponement announced in around April 2nd.

What ignorant fool acts in such a reckless manner? Was this just to set up another insider trading opportunity? Regardless, it is stupid on steroids.

the orange ignoramus can't think out side of smashing things

I was told that more than 90 countries were "lining up," one right after the other, to make "deals" with the old "Dealmaker" himself. I now think that all those 90 countries told Old Yellow Pisswig to go fuck his fist. Yep, the E.U. can be "difficult" when you are an asshole, right, lying Dipshit Donnie?

Then he will change his mind... And billions will be made.

Rinse and repeat

Who can even keep up anymore?

they have formed their own trade partnerships.

IOW, they said: fuck the USA!

agreement with Greenland, and to manipulate the stock market. If he keeps doing stuff like this, we could end up in a full scale depression in about 6 months. How bad does it have to get before it's 25th amendment time?

Wouldn't want all the outrage focused on the budget bill or dismemberment of the rule of law...

Tariffs are good for President Chaos and his ego.

SHEESH!

We just signed a mineral deal with Greenland, smirked the Europeans.