Trump threatens 200% tariffs because Macron won’t join his pay to play billion-dollar extortion scheme
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President Trump’s Board of Peace is part of his next steps for Gaza. Its charter includes broad international powers for Trump and a $1 billion contribution from nations seeking permanent membership.
The Board of Peace was advertised as a way to help Gaza reconstruction. Trump would be the chairman, with representatives from other nations. We say it’s more expansive because a copy of its charter obtained by NPR shows the board asserting power far beyond Gaza. It’s more expensive because other nations are asked to pay for the privilege of permanent representation.
INSKEEP: What’s the document say?
ESTRIN: Well, first of all, the word Gaza is not mentioned once in this charter, even though the Board of Peace was created for the purpose of Gaza reconstruction. And instead, the language in this charter makes it seem that Trump is really trying to create a kind of rival U.N. Security Council to handle all kinds of world conflicts beyond Gaza. The language of this charter says there’s a need for a more effective international peace-building body. So it sounds like a dig at the U.N. there.
It lists Trump as chairman in a permanent capacity, so potentially for life. He alone would get to designate his successor. And countries that would want to be a permanent member of the Board of Peace would need to pay at least $1 billion – billion with a B. So there’s a lot of criticism among analysts saying Trump is really trying to undermine the U.N. here and even make world diplomacy transactional.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to impose 200% tariffs on French wines and champagne after French President Emmanuel Macron was reported to be unwilling to join his “Board of Peace” on Gaza.
When asked for a response by a reporter in Miami about Macron’s stance, Trump dismissed the French leader’s influence and said he would use trade penalties as leverage.
“Well, nobody wants him because he’s going to be out of office very soon,” Trump said. “So you know, that’s all right. What I’ll do is, if they feel like [being] hostile, I’ll put a 200% tariff on his wines and champagnes, and he’ll join. But he doesn’t have to join.”
Macron’s five-year presidential term is due to end in May 2027, and under French law, he cannot run again for a third term.
The Board of Peace is a global body endorsed by the United Nations Security Council in November last year, established to oversee the Israel-Hamas ceasefire.
Invites to various world leaders to be on the board have been sent, including to Russian President Vladimir Putin, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Trump also reiterated his plans to control Greenland, downplaying the likelihood of resistance from Europe.
“I don’t think they’re going to push back too much,” he said. “We have to have it …They can’t protect it.”
Referring to Denmark’s historical claims over Greenland, Trump said the Danish leaders were “very good people,” but argued that a centuries-old presence did not confer ownership.
″[Just] because the boat went there 500 years ago and then left, that doesn’t give you title to property.” It was not clear what “boat” Trump was referring to.
The following entities could end all this madness today in a perfectly legal and bureaucratically correct fashion:
(1) Congress
(2) The Supreme Court, which is supposed to hand down a decision on Trump’s abuse of the tariff power any day now (I expect some ridiculous baby-splitting enterprise overseen by The Unspeakably Statesman-Like Wisdom of John Roberts).
(3) JD Vance, with the aid of a majority of the cabinet and two-thirds of Congress. This is the legal mechanism designed specifically for the situation of a president having gone insane, but it has the lowest chance of actually happening, because of the degenerate state of the Republican party.
It’s pretty obvious at this point that our Elites have decided that Grandpa will fall asleep in front of the football game eventually, instead of getting his gun and slaughtering the whole family in a drunken rage after Thanksgiving dinner, so the best thing to do is not make him any angrier than he already is. You know how he gets and he’s always been this way so just try to accept it.
No word from Hakeem Jefferies if God is still on the throne, while Chuck Schumer is keeping an eye on the S &P 500 futures as he reviews his revised list of Kitchen Table Issues.