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Ocelot II

(129,659 posts)

1. Bingo. It's nothing more than a means of extortion.

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Fri Apr 4, 2025, 09:40 AM

Apr 2025

The blindingly obvious part of this scheme has always been the fact that US businesses will have to beg for exemptions, and offer him something in exchange. Other countries will also have to offer something (Greenland? All of Canada?) to be exempt. For Trump everything is transactional, and he always has to win.