Scott Bessent to Europe: Let us bully you and don't fight back

[marmar]

The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, has urged European countries not to retaliate against the US’s trade tariffs announced over the Greenland crisis.

Speaking in Davos during the World Economic Forum, Bessent said countries and companies should pause and “let things play out” after Donald Trump threatened a 25% tariff on a slew of European countries in his pursuit of the autonomous Danish territory.

As global stock markets fell amid political uncertainty, Bessent indicated that retaliatory tariffs would be unwise, citing last year’s tit-for-tat tariff war that broke out between the US and China.

Last April, Trump’s “liberation day” tariff announcement caused turmoil in global stock markets before some countries agreed trade deals and markets recovered to reach record highs later in the year, fuelled in part by the AI boom. .................(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/20/scott-bessent-europe-trump-greenland-tariff-us-wef-davos

[malaise]

1. Hope they walk out on him tomorrow night

That is all

[Irish_Dem]

2. Same thing Trump and Epstein told their child victims.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Shut up and take it.

True rapist mentality. This Bessent guy is a creep.

[Lovie777]

4. Europe to the USA.................

FAFO.

[biophile]

5. Same message to US citizens

Let us bully you and don’t fight back. But that’s the only way to stop a bully - to fight back and give them a black eye.
It’s possible that the bully might win in the end. But it’s definitely worth a fight to save democracy and to know that you gave it your all!

[murielm99]

6. That was my mother's attitude.

My dad, her enabler, usually backed her up.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Bessent said countries and companies should pause and "let things play out"

Jesus. we are truly being run by people who have a rape mentality.

[bdamomma]

8. Bessent

is a jerk. I hope Europe tells hm to STFU!!!!!!