Trump has invited the leaders of 60 nations to join the Board of Peace with the stipulation that each contribute $1 billion dollars.
It’s not “Join the Board of Peace or get tariffs”, it’s “Give me a billion dollars or get tariffs”
This is called Extortion. It’s obvious he thinks he can run the presidency like a mafia operation. But I think people in general are about done with putting up with this bullshit.
It’s only extortion if it’s from Southern Italy, otherwise it’s just a shakedown
Sparkling shakedown
He didn’t even think it through that much. His thought process was:
“The UN won’t let me do what I want. I’m going to make my own UN with me in charge so I can do anything I want.”
“The UN I’m making is so awesome because I’m in charge, I should charge people to join.”
“The King of France was mean about my super awesome UN, I’m going put tariffs on him! What does France sell? Wine and Champaign.”
Thoughts 2 and 3 are completely unconnected. If you spent 10 minutes explaining the connection to him he’d think “I’m smarter than I thought, either way I get money!”
Some folks seem to think he is saying “pay into the fund for the Board of Peace”, but I am quite convinced he means pay him that money personally.
Same with the donations for the inaugural ceremony… they directly ended up in Trump’s grubby hands without anything to show for towards the American public.
That is what it means. He can spend the money on whatever he wants.
It’s also just another power play.
Does the French economy make 1 billion in champagne and wine? If not, then it’s better to cover the losses by subsidizing the industry as opposed to giving even more away to some corrupt organization.
I can’t imagine US citizens drinking so much wine and champagne and the ones who do might even pay the triple price.
I thought so too. The import will never drop to zero, so the difference can be subsidized if France would think its wine industry is in jeopardy.
Ya know, privatize profits, socialize losses. Nevertheless, it would still be the better economic choice for France.
Spend 1 billion on Trump, or cover the losses for the wine industry. I know which number is bigger.
Give me PERSONALLY a billion dollars, too.
Lmfao this God damn idiot. He’s gotta know how stupid this looks. You gonna force peace? Leave it to a rapist pedophile to think he can force anything.
This demented senior is using grade school yard bully methods. lol
And petulant child methods. “I’m going to make my OWN UN, then everyone has to do what I say!”
Macron, don’t join. The rest if the world will happily increase our purchase of your wines to offset losses stemming from any decrease in sales you experience in the US.
My liver is ready.
Other nations need to stop playing and just wrip up all trade deals with the US and just move on. We’re not going to learn until everyone moves on without us.
If enough countries tariffed the hell out of US goods and services, this shit would stop. When corporate America starts yelling at the congressmen they bought because they’re no longer making any money — congress would suddenly remember they are the ones who legally control the power to set and repeal tariffs, not the president.
Don’t tariff just stop doing business all together. Let those ships pull in, then return to sender.
I am not sure if this is possible. It’s private individuals which are doing business in most cases.
Trade deals take years to make and are thousands of pages for a reason. Very few legal things enter a modern country without it being on a federal trade deal. These governments can 100% just send back everything made in the US. But remember, it’s a big ask for those in power only cares about money and now power. So it won’t happen.
This article is poorly written and the terms are confusing, so just to clarify:
- There are TWO “Boards of Peace” floating around in the headlines.
- They were both created by point 9 in the “Gaza peace plan”.
- By “Gaza Board of Peace”, the article actually means the BoP’s Gaza Executive Board. This seems to be what Trump is trying to extort Macron into joining.
- The 60 nations, $1 billion permanent seat cost BoP is the top-level BoP that the Gaza Executive Board is under.
I don’t know why other countries don’t respond by passing their own export tax/tarrifs…
If trump wants to double the price of your goods, fuck him and get your own slice first.
You still get paid for everyone shipped to America, but the importers only get paid when it sells. So that’s getting business to go after Trump to lower his tariffs.
I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
Trump is bored of peace and wants war.
Extortion anyone?
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Evidently all the new distractions are working. Who would have thought.
Pass, fuck Trump n Pootin
The ones who joined so far look like the worlds “most wanted” list. Including himself.
