Trump Floats 200% Champagne Tariff and Reveals Macron's Text [View all]
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
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
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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.
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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.
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