Hey EU how’s that “negotiation” (extortion) with convict mobster Dementia Don going? When do you figure out Trump is a demented mobster who is losing his mind?

 “The European Union has been following tried-and-true rules of global commerce as it tries to negotiate with the Trump administration to avert painful tariffs on cars, pharmaceuticals and just about everything else.

The problem? President Trump is ripping up that rule book.

Mr. Trump announced in a Truth Social post on Friday morning that he is recommending a 50 percent tariff on European imports as of June 1, claiming that the bloc’s trade barriers, taxes, corporate penalties and other policies had contributed to a trade imbalance with the United States that was “totally unacceptable.”

“The European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of taking advantage of the United States on TRADE, has been very difficult to deal with,” Mr. Trump wrote, adding, “Our discussions with them are going nowhere!”

The surprise announcement comes after months of back-and-forth talks between the two enormous economies that have made, as Mr. Trump suggested, limited headway.

European officials have approached negotiations as though they are reasoning with an ally. But they have met with a Trump administration that sees this less as a chance for two geopolitical friends to seek a mutually beneficial solution — and rather as an opportunity to pressure a commercial rival into making concessions…”

FROM:

The New York Times

Europe’s Been Negotiating by the Book, but Trump’s Tearing It Up

The Trump administration sees tariff talks as a chance to pressure a rival into concessions. E.U. officials have acted as though they were dealing with an ally.

By Jeanna Smialek

Reporting from Brussels and Paris

May 24, 2025, 12:01 a.m. ET

Did Dementia Don put a 50% tariff on Apple because an iPhone interrupted his incoherent degenerate dementia gibberish?  

I understand that news media can't call out Trump's obvious dementia without losing access or worse having their families threatened by Trump's militia. But someday the pretend Trump is sane fantasy world will come crashing down.

“As Donald Trump’s mental acuity continues to decline, Dr John Gartner joins Anthony Davis to discuss the senile dementia, mental health and personality issues that the President clearly presents, and how his verbal gibberish is ignored by the corporate media who refuse to acknowledge the danger of his decision making - only on The Weekend Show.” 

“Outrageous claims are the gasoline that makes Donald Trump’s political career go. Without a steady flow of shocking statements the motor would stall. But engines also require air. If you get the mixture wrong, the engine floods and the car won’t start.

Mr. Trump got the mixture wrong last week. ‘Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls,’  he said Wednesday in response to a question about the effects of his tariffs. ‘And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.” The Chinese ships that deliver cheap goods to American ports are “loaded up with stuff, much of which—not all of it—but much of which we don’t need.’  On Sunday he made the point again in an interview with NBC News: ‘They don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have five.”

The Wall Street Journal

Donald Trump’s Two-Doll Problem

The president is pushing austerity while some liberals talk about abundance.

Matthew Hennessey

May 5, 2025 at 12:02 pm