Trump Floats 200% Champagne Tariff and Reveals Macron's Text

[highplainsdem]

Source: Bloomberg

US President Donald Trump took a swipe at French leader Emmanuel Macron for rejecting an invitation to back his latest peace initiative and suggested he could impose a crushing tariff on champagne in retaliation.

"Nobody wants him because he's going to be out of office very soon," Trump told reporters Monday local time, after being informed Macron would decline his invitation. "I'll put a 200% tariff on his wines and champagnes and he'll join," he added.

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Trump wants the full constitution and remit of the Board of Peace signed in Davos on Thursday, according to people familiar with the matter. But other invitees are also skeptical.

Alongside France, the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, as well as Canada, are all set to decline Trump's invitation to take part, according to people familiar with the thinking in their capitals.

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Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-19/macron-to-decline-trump-s-invitation-to-join-his-peace-board

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The text was of Macron's private message to Trump, which included some flattery, which Trump apparently wanted the world to see, just as he wanted the world to see some flattery in a note from the head of NATO. And Trump also posted an AI picture demeaning to the European leaders and Greenland and Canada.

From an article about this in the Independent:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/trump-message-macron-greenland-denmark-b2903641.html

French President Emmanuel Macron told U.S President Donald Trump that he could set up a meeting after Davos in Paris on Thursday afternoon, according to screenshots of messages sent by Macron to Trump that were posted by the U.S. president on Truth Social.

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The apparent message in full read: "My friend, We are totally in line on Syria. We can do great things on Iran. I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland. Let us try to build great things: 1) i can set up a g7 meeting after Davos in Paris on thursday afternoon. I can invite the ukrainians, the danish, the syrians and the russians in the margins 2) let us have a dinner together in Paris together on thursday before you go back to the us. Emmanuel."

Trump also shared an AI image of him talking to European leaders in The White House with the American Flag over Greenland.

-snipping to get to the private message from the secretary general of NATO, Mark Rutte-

It read: "Mr. President, dear Donald - what you accomplished in Syria today is incredible. I will use my media engagements in Davos to highlight your work there, in Gaza, and in Ukraine. I am committed to finding a way forward on Greenland. Can't wait to see you. Yours, Mark"

That disgusting AI image - which you can see in the Independent's article - shows Trump in the Oval Office, addressing the European leaders as if they're underlings, and in the background is a map of North America showing not just Greenland but Canada as well covered by the American flag.

Editing to add a screenshot of Trump's Truth Social post with that AI slop image. The map has Venezuela covered by the American flag as well.

[Bread and Circuses]

1. Europe - Keep on groveling and placating the fascist madman ....and you'll find yourself....

Completely humiliated and defeated when he demands MORE Tribute and Gifts.

This is a mobster running a protection racket.

It never stops. Until It IS Annihilated.

There’s no middle ground , no talking , no peace. ONLY Total subjection . Wake UP.

[highplainsdem]

2. I was sorry to see Macron and Rutte using flattery in those private messages.

[Bread and Circuses]

6. Me too, I hope their just buying time whilst they load bombs under their fighter jets...

[MadameButterfly]

11. Yes, that's what they are doing

They can't give up Greenland because they were too proud to praise a man who they despise. It's well known that Trump is easily manipulated by flattery. Let's wait on getting mad until they give in on something substantive. Which they won't.

[lastlib]

9. Keep on groveling to him, and....

you'll have results similar to 1939, the last time Europe grovelled to a fascist madman.

"If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got."

[SheltieLover]

3. Best shot at preventing the much anticipated celebration when slob croaks?

🍾🥂🍾🥂🍾🥂🍾🥂🍾🥂🍾🥂

[Chemical Bill]

13. It won't work.

I'm not the only person with Moet in the fridge.

[SheltieLover]

14. Nope it won't work.

[Aristus]

15. Mine is Taittinger's.

Can't wait to pop that cork...

[msongs]

4. dear Europeans, be like Nancy and JUST SAY NOOOOOOOOOO nt

[BidenRocks]

5. We WILL have champagne

when he's dead!

[2naSalit]

7. Soooo...

What if the EU countries decide to arrest his sorry ass and deliver him to The Hague?

Wouldn't that be nice?

[DFW]

8. It's hard being an American in Europe these days

The questions come hard and fast and there are no answers.

“Is he really going to put all these tariffs in place?”



“Will he really attack Greenland or Canada?”



Will the USA really try to occupy Venezuela?



You know he’s certifiable. Will the Republicans or his cabinet EVER consent to his removal?



Will you ever again have a president like Clinton or Obama or Biden? Or is your country finished as a world leader? Don’t you have anybody there who can inspire the population AND take a more sane direction?



I’m rapidly running out of answers. Which way to the Bastille?

[lastlib]

10. Well-Stated, sir!

"Storming the Bastille" may be our only hope for deliverance from this evil. I HOPE it doesn't come to that, but I fear the worst.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Europe needs to kidnap TSF ala Maduro and take him to the Hague.

[Grins]

16. "I'll put a 200% tariff on his wines and champagnes and he'll join."

Trump, the fuckin' cut-rate Corleone. Only without the Don's charm and finesse.