Apr 01, 2025, 13:17
US President Donald Trump said Sunday he may impose "secondary tariffs" on Russian oil if he believes Russia is at fault for not reaching a ceasefire with Ukraine.
In a phone interview with NBC News, Trump said he was "very angry" and "pissed off" when Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the credibility of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's leadership, adding that the comments were "not going in the right location."
"If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia's fault -- which it might not be -- but if I think it was Russia's fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia," Trump said.
"That would be that if you buy oil from Russia, you can't do business in the United States," he said. "There will be a 25 percent tariff on all oil, a 25- to 50-point tariff on all oil."
Trump noted that the tariffs on Russia would come within the next month if Moscow does not sign up to a ceasefire with Ukraine.
Trump said Putin knows he is angry, but he has "a very good relationship" with Putin and would speak to the Russian leader again this week.
During a phone conversation on March 18, Trump and Putin agreed that the peace in Ukraine "will begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire."
The Great Satan's negotiating tactics are lame. Are the amerikan sheeple really fooled by this pantomime?
The Shyster of Omaha and Billy Gates had the "Giving Pledge", where they pledged cash but had no commitment to handing any over and then went to China to beg China's self-made billionaires to follow suit; a lame-assed attempt to shame them into giving cash.
Simiarly, war criminal, The Donald, has bullied its vassals, resulting in Mexico and the gangster-run, theived prison-state of Kanada promising to send troops to their border. Presumably, this is so that war criminal, The Donald, doesn't have to complete the wall with Mexico that he promised in 2016. The Great Satan needs migrant to boost GDP, hold down wages and increase prices. Columbia too has complied by sending military planes to pick up alleged undocumented migrants.
But China is ignoring this lame-assed tactic. Apparently, war criminal, The Donald, didn't actually contribute anything but his name to "The Art of the Deal". Perhaps he should write a book, "The Art of Being Lame".
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