Trump threatens 50% tariffs on India over ties to Russia

[Morphine Prince 109,654]

The White House is placing an additional 25% tariff on imports from India, bringing total tariffs up to 50%, in retaliation for the country’s purchase of oil from Russia, according to an executive order signed on Wednesday morning.

India has 21 days to respond to the potential tariffs before they go into effect. The tariffs will be tacked on to a 25% tariff on India Donald Trump set last week as a “penalty” for the country’s trading relationship with Russia.

Last week, the president wrote on social media that India had “always bought a vast majority of their military equipment from Russia, and are Russia’s largest buyer of energy”.

“I don’t care what India does with Russia. They can take their dead economies down together, for all I care,” he wrote.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/06/trump-india-tariffs-russia-brics

 

[Lord Mayhem 3,426]

Why is this 1 orange man being allowed to cause so much damage to the global economy???

Is NOBODY going to step in and say enough is enough? Where are our elected officials?

America is going down the drain so fast and we still have 3.5 years left of this...

[Nagini 4,156]

56 minutes ago, Lord Mayhem said:

Why is this 1 orange man being allowed to cause so much damage to the global economy???

Is NOBODY going to step in and say enough is enough? Where are our elected officials?

America is going down the drain so fast and we still have 3.5 years left of this...

Yes, it's just nonstop and too much all at once. Every day it's something new, and it's not even one thing but rather 90 things he is shaking out of boredom. The cult this guy started needs to be seriously studied in a few decades. 

[StarstruckIllusion 53,564]

All this with that backing of the republican party. Nobody can trust america ever again after this administration, bc no one can trust them not to elect these same republicans into future presidencies.