A fundamental false assumption is that these tariffs are permanent.
They are a tool to get the EU to move to fair trade and grow out the American manufacturing job base, incentivizing companies to establish long-term manufacturing in the US, rather than avoiding employing American workers.
Think more long-term and less short-term/sky is falling.
Europe needs us a lot more than we need them, and their stupid female figureheads are being forced to go through the process of learning that harsh reality. That’s all.
These are politicians who truly believe the retarded ideologies they learned in university in their political science classes.
They’ve never dealt with an assertive businessman before who holds more power than them. Businessmen in Europe have to bow and acquiesce to the EU and home regulations like a curtsying peasant before the Queen.
Culturally, the EU chics are used to being treated like royalty.
Trump is actually taking it easy on them. He could be really mean-spirited and rub their noses in their own excrement, but he’s just rattling their cages a bit.
You can tell who hasn’t studied his life and business experience though. He’s been saying the same things since the early 1980s at the latest. Most Americans even don’t put 2 & 2 together that he’s from Queens. They aren’t familiar with how cutthroat it is there, and how Trump was forged.