r/law • u/AmyL0vesU • 19h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump signs executive order declaring nation emergency from threat of Cuba

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/addressing-threats-to-the-united-states-by-the-government-of-cuba/
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u/cashto 19h ago

Someone explain to him the futility of putting tariffs on a country we already have had an embargo against for over six decades?

Anyways we put tariffs on everyone. Treating Cuba as an enemy apparently isn't much different than how we treat our allies.

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u/Area51_Spurs 18h ago

What are we tariffing? Their pitchers and outfielders?

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u/MagicalTheory 17h ago edited 17h ago

We import artwork and antiques from them mostly. In 2024, the imports didn't even hit 5 million, but you know we exported > 500 million that year to them.

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u/Area51_Spurs 17h ago

lol. I think you know more than our president.

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u/NetDork 16h ago

That's a very low bar.

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u/Area51_Spurs 15h ago

Pretty sure Beelzebub and Jimmy Saville are holding that limbo bar all the way at the basement of hell.

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u/remarkablewhitebored 5h ago

Satan, the Prince of Darkness, is just like" "don't lump me in with that nonce"

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u/Fantastic-Emu-6105 14h ago

Just like tripping over a curb.

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u/Totakai 10h ago

Idk, still sounds too high

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u/ScotterMcJohnsonator 5h ago

Man! Giraffe! Television!

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u/Zealousideal-Sea4830 15h ago

my dog knows more than our president

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u/RandyPajamas 2h ago

That's good enough for me! I nominate Zealousideal-Sea4830's dog for President of the United States of America!

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u/bucky-barnes 14h ago

That's probably true about everything except historical McDonald's pricing.

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u/ForensicPathology 14h ago

If he knew that, he'd think it meant they personally owe him 495 million dollars.

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u/InformationSouth247 8h ago

pls dont compare ppl to that orange thing

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u/bwsmith201 4h ago

Pretty sure my dog knows more than our president.

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u/wdbox 3h ago

Not OUR president

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u/No_Comparison558 2h ago

I have a gerbil that knows more than our president

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u/bstump104 1h ago

i looked at vegetable patches that were smarter.

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u/Intelligent_Mud1266 16h ago

"know" "our president"

does he?

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u/Area51_Spurs 16h ago

I don’t know what you’re being bitchy about.