American President Donald Trump announced on Friday that a 25% tariff he plans to impose on Apple will extend to Samsung and all other smartphone manufacturers who do not manufacture smartphones in the America for sale in the country.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump also expressed his stance on maintaining a 50% tariff on the European Union if no trade agreement is reached.
MacDailyNews Take: Here is a list of the top 5 consumer markets by country, based on household final consumption expenditure (HFCE) in U.S. dollar value (consumer spending):
- United States of America: ~$18.8 trillion
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China: ~$7.0 trillion
- Japan: ~$2.5 trillion
- Germany: ~$2.3 trillion
- India: ~$2.2 trillion
Add up the 2nd – 5th consumer markets on earth and they still total $4.4 trillion less than the United States of America’s consumer market.
The best thing you can do is deal from strength, and leverage is the biggest strength you can have. Leverage is having something the other guy wants. Or better yet, needs. Or best of all, simply can’t do without. – Donald J. Trump, Trump: The Art of the Deal
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Worst person on earth as well as president. Just a horrific nightmare- the incompetence is beyond comprehension.
The asshole should be in prison. Merrick Garland should be held accountable for the fact that the fascist-felon isn’t incarcerated.
Merrick Garland should be in prison for hiding the subpoenaed Biden interview video in which Biden’s brain had clearly reached the vegetable state. Garland corruptly protected the corrupt president.
If you’re calling Trump a fascist, you’re brain dead, too. Biden was crushing our Constitutional rights with his censorship and spying. Biden was truly a fascist not to mention corrupt. He clearly lied about Hunter’s bribe collection activities.
Cry more you leftist piece of s***. Cry more. Go blow cook and china, they miss you. Chop chop.
You libturds are a pathetic breed. What morals have you for criticizing Trump while cheering the past administration run by a decrepit senile imbecile together with his inept minions who manhandled him like a puppet. No, the worst and the most incompetent was the previous idiot!
Even Biden’s corpse would be better than Trump.
Delicious. Cry more you loser commie left Nazi pieces of s***. Cry more
https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1926061602144452729
Trump is helping incompetent Tim Cook not kill Apple. It is way past time that Apple produce at least SOME of its iPhones and laptops here in the US, rather than relying on hostile communist hellholes Vietnam and China.
India production is good. So is Brazil. But at least SOME, 1%, 5%, SOMETHING, has to be done in the US for strategic reasons.
Funny, awful CEO cook blows diversity horses*** out all of his holes, but fails business 101 diversification in production and sourcing.
Apple needs a master chef, but all it has is a lousy cook.
The United States will end up as a large isolated island, with which, by trying to play the big guy, no one will want to have to do.
Yea if you nazi left pieces of shit stay here, true. Go to your utopia communist sholes in europe and china. F off and please please prove how serious you are by renouncing your USA citizenship. Never come back, Fing traitor pieces of s.
The Nazis are only right-wing extremists, not the other way around.
You’d better stop with the autocrats’ lies and false news propagated by the current “government”.
You have to reread the history of the 2nd world war (the true one, not that of Mein Kampf)!
Cry more you commie retard. Nazis were social democrats. But retards like you wouldn’t know basic history. Cry more bitch
Nazis are left-wing, stupid.
Hint: socialists are lefties.
In fact, Trump is having fun to tell anything and then his opposite in order to influence the stock market and make money for himself and his fellows.
This won’t happen, Trump is just waiting for his bribes.
C’mon guys you all know what happens when you tug your forelock to President Trump, he treats you with contempt and next you’re on the receiving end.
So after thirty years of practising economics I’m just waiting for the economic implosion. Voodoo economics always ends badly and it’ll be pretty nasty. And it won’t be over with a simple and short recession. All of this will take years to flow through the pipe and the US will be the poorer for it.
I love licking your communist leftist tears. Suffer bitches. Suffer.
Zombie fits you very well, indeed! 🤡
Lol, your delicious frustration at your inability to cope is delicious. Despair more you piece of s***. Love it.
Communist?!?!?!?!
You are the one who supports an authoritarian idiot who thinks he should be able to control all industries. The rest of us believe in freedom, which includes freedom to travel and freedom to trade.
The dustbin of history awaits losers like you and the corrupt orange team.
Eat you commie nazi f***. I own you bitch. I will torture you here for eternity. Keep coming back. I have more for you. I will never let you go. I OWN YOU.
DESPAIR MOTHERF***ER. DESPAIR.
Those aren’t our eyes, and they aren’t tears.
https://x.com/dineshdsouza/status/1927374681528549677?s=61
This you bitch? LOL I OWN YOU BITCH. KEEP COMING BACK. I LOVE TORTURING YOU. YOU DESERVE WORSE you lefty nazi f***s.
TDS is strong with the idiot posts above!
The awakening will be difficult when, finally, a majority of Americans have realized that they have followed the lies of an autocrat who is full of himself.
The bill will be very high at the end and America will have lost all the respect it could have had before the intervention of our new Mussolini!
It is a sadness for humanity, but a catastrophe for the USA.
A great recap of describing “The One”! But sorry, Obama’s catastrophe was from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017, plus Obama’s “third term” 2021 – 2024.
Are you up to date on your boosters? Why not racist. Go take some more boosters. You’re a problem that solves itself
Trump should be fired! Period.
Mr dead man Zombie,
How about you make a little list of all the stuff your orange idol promised to do on “Day 1”.
Did he do any of them?
No, his oligarch buddies have handed him a sharpie and a pile of self-serving executive orders to sign, most of them burning down the agencies that once made America great. Now the oligarchs can practice more corruption and control without any legal oversight.
That is what the extreme righties always do, buy the government, write their own tax loopholes, and watch the gerrymandered system give them the profits while taxpayers get to shoulder all the expenses.
Donny is just the dumbest puppet working for the multinational oligarchs, and you “love it”. You will suffer with the rest of us, you piece if shite. Nuff said.
Border bitch. DESPAIR MOTHERF***ER DESPAIR.
Quite an idiotic reaction… typical of a short minded and manipulated zombie… 🙄
Glad it bothers you. Despair mothers***er, DESPAIR.