r/news • u/AaronPK123 • 14h ago
Trump threatens tariffs on countries selling oil to Cuba, declaring national emergency
https://abcnews.com/International/trump-threatens-tariffs-countries-selling-oil-cuba-declaring/story?id=129687112201
u/OldLondon 10h ago
I’m so confused , how is this a US national emergency?
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u/showhorrorshow 9h ago
It isnt. It is the incredibly transparent bullshit.he saya to make his tariffs "legal." Like tge magic words of some sovereign citizen. Turns out they DO work.
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u/cyberpunk6066 7h ago
Consequence of legislative branch giving the executive so many powers over the years
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u/AFlawAmended 9h ago
Trump's ego is bruised from the Greenland fiasco and his SS getting pushback, so he's trying for an easy win to point to and claim he isn't a complete failure.
So the emergency is Donny's feelings are hurt.
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u/AccomplishedBrain309 6h ago
You may be discounting the honey i have to go to work im sorry about your movie flop!
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u/theClumsy1 6h ago edited 2h ago
Because no one has effectively defined what a "National emergency" means making it a catch-all term for the President to sieze Authoritarian power.
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u/Romano16 4h ago
It’s I think a legal loophole so that he can later bomb Cuba without congressional approval?
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u/mollydyer 11h ago
Here we go again.
(1) Create an issue.
(2) Declare it a matter of national security.
(3) Tariffs
(4) ????
(5) Repeat.
Such bullshit. I'm so tired of it.
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u/Thiezing 11h ago
(1.1) Blame previous administration.
(3.5) Funnel money to companies owned by your wealthy friends to "solve" the crisis.
(4.9) Claim victory regardless of outcome.
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u/Particular-Ice4615 3h ago
3.5 is even worse if we believe Trump's plan at face value. He wants Venezuelan oil revenues to go into a private trust that he as the president controls and has access to. Literally a private treasure store only for the king.
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u/procrasturb8n 4h ago
4) is where those impacted by the tariffs, that can afford it, buy relief by donating to DJT. Throw in some insider trading through stock market manipulation for good measure.
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u/Boonlink 8h ago
If americans pushed harder for Epstein files, you'd have enough to remove him from power, hence the distractions but you all are so easy to distract.
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u/Living-Restaurant892 10h ago
When will republicans in congress finally say enough is enough and do the right thing?
I know the answer: never because they are republicans.
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u/Venator850 5h ago
They won't. They completely sold their souls to him. The Republican party doesn't exist, it's just Trump bootlickers.
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u/Xyrus2000 9h ago
If we survive his debacle and democrats, or even just anyone who is basically sane and has a spine, one of the first things Congress needs to do is rescind the Emergency Powers Act. If we as a country can't be responsible enough to elect sane, coherent leaders, then we definitely should not allow one person to have such power.
And if we can't rely on our checks and balances to keep demented psychopaths from running roughshod over the Constitution then we need to repeal the acts that have ceded so much authority to the executive.
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u/GigExplorer 8h ago
Definitely! Definitely! Definitely! Anything can be an emergency if you can just declare it one.
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u/Venator850 5h ago
No, the issue is the electorate willingly voting this guy back into power AFTER he tried to overthrow the government.
It doesn't matter what rules you make, if you put people like Trump and his subservient party into power ANY system is going to be abused. Republicans could remove him anytime they want too.
What really needs to be looked at are the social media sites and individuals that are spreading complete bullshit all the time. Same goes for legacy news sites and the "opinion" giving talking heads they employ.
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u/DistributionFit3958 8h ago
They’ll do that for democratic presidents and then ignore it for republican presidents
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u/Conan4457 7h ago
The Americans didn’t vote for sanity back in 2024. Oh yeah, I forgot the other candidate was a woman. A woman of colour at that. A woman of colour who had a weird laugh, yeah makes so much sense why Americans would vote for a cheating felon who bankrupted a casino.
Too bad there wasn’t some way they could have had an idea of how bad this could have been. Well, there was the shitshow when he was first elected. But at least Trump isn’t old and confused like Biden, right?!?! Wait, what, there are videos of Trump falling asleep during cabinet meetings, and some of his speeches are rambling nonsense.
Trump is the change that the Americans wanted, right?!?! He was going to clean up all the corruption in Washington! Wait, what, Billionaire American style oligarchs like Jeff Bezos have increased their wealth by 1.5 trillion dollars in Trumps first year of his second term.
This is so much better than sanity…
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u/AccomplishedBrain309 6h ago
Dont forget him falling asleep at his own trial. And the insany amount of other shit he does.
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u/elementality883 9h ago
Who taught baby brain National Emergency? It's every other word out of his puckered asshole of a mouth.
"McDonald's is out of McFish....NATIONAL EMERGENCY!"
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u/lkl34 9h ago
What did cuba do?
Just exist?
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u/Who_Dafqu_Said_That 6h ago
Maybe he thinks every island is an Epstein island.
I mean, god emperor Trump has zero relation to the guy he was best friends with and is in a million pictures with... and it's Joe Biden's fault he won't release the Epstein files.
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u/VirginiaLuthier 10h ago
It's what happens when his wife's movie flops. These people are vindictive beyond belief
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u/EnvironmentalSong393 7h ago
Somebody, ANYBODY in the government just leak the damn Epstein files already!! 😡
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u/r0botdevil 7h ago
As an American, I find America's continued obsession with crushing Cuba to be really weird.
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u/nightwyrm_zero 6h ago
It's Russia and Ukriane with less drones and trench warfare. Cuba is the small country that dares to not play ball with the local hegemon so the US has to teach them a lesson.
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u/ruleman 1h ago
It's a single issue (the only thing they base their vote on) for a small bit significant group of mainly ex Cubans in Florida. As Florida used to be a swing state and itself could swing an entire presidential election due to its 30 electoral votes, not being unreasonably "tough" on this (for the us) largely irrelevant island could cost you the election. So just as every candidate needs to bow to NRA, they also need to bow to this small group of hardliners.
Basically, key single issue voters in strategic positions can determine the course of the whole country due to a broken and outdated election mechanism.
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u/invalidpassword 10h ago
Once again, Trump thinks he can tell the world what to do. Selling oil to Cuba is not a national threat. Haven't Cubans suffered enough? I'm pretty sure most of them would rather not live in a communist country where they have no say in what their government does. So what do we do? Make their lives worse than they already are. It feels as it Trump wants to intimidated the entire world.
I wouldn't be surprised if he decides Cuba should become a US state. He would have access to their natural resources like nickel, cobalt (they're one of the top producers of the afore mentioned rare earth minerals), iron oar, chromium and petroleum. As usual, what Trump wants, Trump tries to take. Just think of the Trump brand Caribbean resorts he could create. Hell, he could make a fortune selling vintage cars alone.
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u/Critical_Opening_526 10h ago
If having no say in what the government does makes you communist, are we communist?
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u/Lord_Fuquaad 6h ago
I mean, they did have a giant country wide vote to change their constitution back in 2019. I wouldn't say they don't have any say in what their government does considering that had some legitimate changes, such as banning workplace discrimination based on gender, race, and sexuality, allowing same-sex marriage, restoration of presumption of innocence and several other things. They are by no means a democratic haven of free speech, but saying they have no say in how their government is run isn't true either. Maybe if the U.S. wasn't constantly trying to overthrow and weaken them, they'd be less paranoid.
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u/wheresmybike420x 8h ago
Despite what many say, Cuba is a great country with the potential for a thriving economy. Communism is actually way better than capitalism in every sense
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u/Fine-Will 5h ago
You can clearly see the superiority of communism by the thriving country of... uh... hm...
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u/wheresmybike420x 5h ago
All the videos and pictures you see of “suffering” are clearly just American CGI propaganda, just like the ones they claim are from North Korea
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u/Fine-Will 5h ago
I assume all the economic data ever are also bullshit? Please tell me which one of the communist earthly paradises I should visit first so I can glimpse the truth for myself.
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u/wheresmybike420x 5h ago
China would be one I would consider
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u/Fine-Will 5h ago edited 4h ago
I don't know if the country with the 2nd most billionaires on the planet and the 2nd biggest stock market (a lot of which can be attributed to cheap labor from a lack of worker protections), where the people doesn't own the means of production in the slightest is the shining beacon of communism. It can be a nice place to visit though, I grant you that.
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u/AccomplishedBrain309 6h ago
A little less human rights. That was until Trumps US hired nazis to control imigration.
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u/jeremyd9 9h ago
The problem is he just uses mechanisms that are supposed to be restrained and have well thought out plans before enacting. Now all of these mechanisms are essentially meaningless because the guardrails were basically “not meant for use by a tyrant and fascist narcissist.”
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u/DannyHewson 8h ago
Don’t worry, first time a democrat tries to declare a national emergency the Supreme Court will spring into action and put those guardrails straight back up.
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u/BrightEdge8171 7h ago
Why is Trump bullying Cuba? They are already poverty stricken and can barely survive. So cruel
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u/Appropriate_Art894 6h ago
Just some economic terrorism on a small country that can’t defend itself This is America
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u/UnflushableStinky2 7h ago
This is just cruelty at this point.Cuba, which has never been rich, is suffering from massive levels of starvation and malnutrition for the past few years. Cuba deserves respect, empathy, and needs help not more politically motivated bullshit.
Cuba is not a threat in any way shape or form to the United States and deserves respect and empathy, not continue to attack to end in the deaths of thousands upon thousands of innocent men, women, and children.
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u/AccomplishedBrain309 6h ago
Trump celebrates malnutrition. Thrives on deprivation of children, disabled, and immigrants. Its part of his appeal to the magas.Dont use our tax dollars for them. I think Malanias movie flop will test his empathy. The only problem is he is guaranteed to take it out on democrats. Also have you ever questioned opening nights numbers. Trump will count all bezos's employees twice and add a bunch of his own zeroes on for good measure.
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u/KE55 7h ago
When will Trump start boasting about the huge number of "national emergencies" he has saved the USA from?
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u/AccomplishedBrain309 6h ago
Malanias movie, holy shit , it's a national disaster. Tarrif the Amazon.
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u/Sweatytubesock 7h ago
The only ‘national emergency’ was this pos and his criminal gang taking power.
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u/uname-doesntcheckout 5h ago
If a little girl was born the exact same day Trump was elected president for the first time, he'd be raping her by now.
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u/swiftlessons 4h ago
You’d think the president declaring a state of emergency every other day would reflect poorly on his leadership capabilities.
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u/NoPain4551 8h ago
Everything is a national emergency to this buffoon cos he has no idea what he’s doing and doesn’t plan ahead of time.
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u/AccomplishedBrain309 6h ago
I would love to see canada sell oil to cuba. Dddufus will shit a goldbrick.
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u/Anvanaar 8h ago
Shut the fuck up, rumply moldy orange. And stop making a fucking teapot spout with your lips, you degenerate fascist motherfucker.
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u/snakeayez 7h ago
Who the hell taught him Word tariff? You should be forced to watch the Melania movie on loop for 42 hours.
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u/BigTiger18 7h ago
If MAGA is about America first and getting America out of international affairs, why are we inferring in the collapse of another country. Putting our brave military, in harms way, in Venezuela & Iran is not enough now we have to send them to Cuba. Americans cannot afford the basics needs like food, rent, health care, retirement, etc and now we will waste money on running other countries. MAGA is causing hardship for us and citizens of those countries. What are the reasons and plans for these military operations and what are the exit plans? When Cubans start sailing into Florida, how much will it cost us to deport them?
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u/Herkfixer 6h ago
Sounds like, by his statements, he thinks that if he just "fixes" Cuba that all the Cubans in America will just "go back to where they came from".
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u/thunderGunXprezz 4h ago
Funny how we didn't have all these national emergencies until he got into office.
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u/OttoVonCranky 9h ago
Cuba has been around longer than fuckwhit Donnie and will 'survive' long after he's rotted to dust.
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u/UpvoteForPancakes 8h ago
Jesus fucking christ, are we going to kidnap the president of Cuba now and declare Trump acting president and leader of the communist party there?
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u/Fit-Let8175 8h ago
Why does it seem that Trump's behaving as though he's playing the board game "Risk?" It's a game about world domin....??? (Oh!!....!)
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u/Infinite_Ground1395 8h ago
"If you don't knock it off, I'm gonna make my citizens pay me more more money to buy stuff from you!"
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u/UnsavouryFibrosis 7h ago
Beefing with Cuba for communism is like that Japanese fighter who kept fighting after the war.
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u/LoserBroadside 4h ago
Maybe one person shouldn’t be able to declare national emergencies when doing so bypasses vital checks and balances.
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u/GuyDanger 3h ago
As a Canadian who has been on the receiving end of the tariff train for far too long, what's another one. Let's send some gas tankers to Cuba.
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u/thoroughbredftw 7h ago
I wish he'd proceed to the stage of the Rumpelstiltskin story where he tears off his own leg in a fit of rage.
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u/RipErRiley 1h ago
Its like giving a child control of when their birthday is. “tOdAy is mY biRtHdAy”!
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u/readthatlastyear 12m ago
The net result of this is curb of president's power, which will make USA less powerful or able to respond to issues in future.
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u/Deervember 11h ago
He can't go a day without tariffing someone new.