cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/45601379
The US president added that he “can do anything I want” with Brussels’ $600 billion worth of pledged investments
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250805165341/https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/trump-threatens-eu-with-35-tariff-if-investment-pledge-falls-through/
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Trump said…
" So they paid $600 billion. And because of that, I reduced their tariffs from 30% down to 15%(…) They gave us $600 billion that we can invest in anything we want,(…) I can do anything I want with it."
Thus spoke the Orange Toddler King of BS.
This is so stupid though, because even if EU companies would follow through and buy that much US energy, that money would end up with Big US Oil, not with the US govt, much less Trump.
You think Big US Oil isn’t sponsoring him?
Doesn’t mean that he can “do anything he wants” with their whole revenue.