Donald Trump announces a 100% tariff on any country that imposes a Digital Services Tax on US tech platforms

Always playing checkers and never chess.

@AndrewCurran_ Didn’t earlier tariffs of such nature nullified by court ?

@AndrewCurran_ lol trump thinks he can just slap tariffs on shit like it's a tweet. supreme court already smacked that down once. this dude's gonna learn about international trade the hard way again.

@AndrewCurran_ That’s a huge escalation over DSTs. The retaliation may get attention fast, but the knock-on effects for consumers and exporters could be messy.

@AndrewCurran_ But shutting down pinnacle American digital services like Anthropic Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI GPT 5.6 is fine because "safety". Trump is beyond stupid.

@AndrewCurran_ *sigh* Goods are not "sent" into the US. They are BOUGHT by Americans who must pay that tax.

Also, these threats are empty. The Supreme Court has ruled that he cannot unilaterally tax us anymore.

@meetp_ai @AndrewCurran_ Yes, it's an empty threat.

@meetp_ai @AndrewCurran_ No. Only one pathway was shut down. There is still the 232 pathway.

@AndrewCurran_ if someone from the Duopoly sent him a post on truth social. That would end all this in seconds

@GaryMarcus While eating paste

@AndrewCurran_ dozen-plus countries already collect DSTs, so blanket 100% is more credible as a forcing function than day-one policy. whether USTR files section 301 cases behind it separates bluff from execution.

@AndrewCurran_ Ok the one hand, he doesn't want others to have access US AI, but then he...doesn't want anything other countries do to discourage US AI use?

@meetp_ai @AndrewCurran_ Yes.

@AndrewCurran_ Just a curious question, but wasn't the tariff policy supposed to be illegal? Is the judiciary completely suspended under the Trump administration?🤔

@AndrewCurran_ While the same guy is also witholding the same companies back

@AndrewCurran_ Tariffs are awful, but maybe the threat of tariffs makes for good bargaining leverage...

@AndrewCurran_ for once the national mouth matches the national behavior

@AndrewCurran_ Let's see when the U.S. government imposes an export restriction on Bitcoin.😂

@janstevens @AndrewCurran_ It's an empty threat. The courts already told him he cannot unilaterally raise taxes like this.

@viktorg475 @meetp_ai @AndrewCurran_ O chance a court approves 232 as a retaliation measure.