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PREDICTION: The rise of international tariffs will ultimately uncover a huge underbelly of unemployment ironically in the USA and create a wave of an unexpected underbelly of poverty unseen by America in many years. USA will suffer in the next 4 years due to tariff wars and causing its international allies work in new relationships with its unexpected competitors such as China. The EU will learn how to live without relying on the USA - as is the same with China and other countries. America will have to self-rely on itself - causing it to recycle its own money over and over again to try and create home-grown industries that will initially be very expensive to run. \n\nCompetitive countries will strike deals with American allies and form new relationships that the USA hadn't foreseen - and the era will illustrate an international 'Us' vs US mentality. Countries will turn their back on America, knowing they can work well together than rely on the USA. \n\nThe average US citizen will be receiving tax rise after tax rise, causing more poverty within states and due to the 'xenophobic tariff mentality' - will find the middle income earner slip down to a lower grade, and ripple this effect. Medical aid will only benefit the rich while everyone else will pay for minimum service but premium for medication. \n\nThe price of food and transport will quadruple over the next 4 years, not because of the natural progression of price rise, but immediately due to tariff wars. \n\nAmericans, ultimately pay for tariffs - bullying words of 50 percent tariffs on another country means a surge in prices for everyday goods Americans take for granted. The only winner is the Government - which means it chooses what to spend on. \n\nA recession will hit hard....AGAIN -- on the USA.

Just the Bully in Chief, the countries of the world increasingly view the US as a hostile threat to freedom and democracy....

What a bully

Poor Columbia. Rich white guys can be the biggest bullies, but they cry like babies when they don't get their way.

America, the world's bully. What a sad time we live in.

Good for Columbia! Texas did it, dumped immigrants to sanctuary states, so, again good for Columbia. Good for Canada, Greenland, Japan, and a whole lot more standing against Bully Trump. Its so embarassing for our country!

This guy really thinks he can just bully everyone into submission. Did he not learn from China before? \nHe is helping countries into an easy US isolation. What if many countries around apply that same tariff back to the US? Then what?

This idiot thinks that being a bully will make things go forward. Yes, you win once, twice, but people will try not to deal with you in the long run

BFFR... We can't be bullied into keeping another countries citizens.

Good try Colombia by standing up the bully. accept your people and send them back to their native land America ?

TRUMP IS THE WORLDS BULLY. HEL BE THE WORLD's DICTATOR

The US has become the world's bully. I wouldn't want to be a US tourist right now.

The target on Trump's head just keeps getting bigger. Bullies sooner or later meet their match. Lunacy by an unhinged old convicted felon wannabe dictator. MAGA....not going so well!!

The entire planet stand against the BULLY

Nations around the world should up their imports from Columbia\nCounter the USA bully\n\nBRICS expansion will increase substantially\nStanding room only at Rio 2025

I STRONGLY ADVISE CNN to replace the word TRUMP with the word USA to make it clear that all the chaos and ill will being generated is squarely the responsibility of the country ... United States of America which so blindly and misguidedly elected a bully / fascist/racist/ sexist/narcissist/ corrupt/ convicted felon as its President .... \nCNN, I strongly advise you NOT to glorify TRUMP by mentioning his name a million times on your news.... BLACK OUT his name ..... just replace the word TRUMP with the word USA. \nHope you understand how critical this is....\nplease avoid feeding Trump's hunger for attention......

He is pissing off the world one country at a time and people are going to stop travelling to the US and buying goods made in the US.\n No one likes a bully and he is managing to do more damage to the US and their reputation. Americans will be treated like crap in Europe, Canada, Greenland and Panama and the list continues to grow. The world population is going to stand together against this mentally ill wanna be dictator. People are not going to put up with his crap.

The world will turn on Trump and America if they are not careful. The world will not be bullied. Could this be the beginning of the end for the United States influence? ??

What sucks is we visit these countries on vacations and now that’s going to end. It’s really going to suck we can’t visit these beautiful countries because we have a bully in office. I didn’t vote for this man

How to make the whole world hate you one country at a time. He’s been president now for 5 days and he’s already trying to bully Mexico Panana Canada Denmark Greenland and counting.

Give it 12 months the USA will have no friends in the world as bullies don't win in the long term, and trump is not only a idiot he is a pretend bully lets see how he does when the average USA shopping bill doubles

Columbia is matching those tariffs. USA thinks they can bully other countries. You cannot, bit nobody has to accept it. USA will lose a tariff / trade war as other countries will fill those trade gaps like human beings and not dollar store dictators

This is why BRICS is so appealing to the whole world. These tariff will not end up doing the US well long term. Ppl don’t like bullys.

Trump is acting like an abusive, bullying parent.

Trump needs to learn the world is not at his knees. He is an obnoxious bully who thinks he and he alone can save the world. In less than one week he has insulted, threatened and lied so many times I lost count. Releasing convicted criminals who amongst other things, assaulted police officers. All this from a convicted felon! Well Donnie, go ahead and impose your tariffs on the world. America, because of you has become a pariah amongst the rest of the world.

Bully Boy Trump, yet a draft dodging Coward.

Trump didnt do tariffs to mexico when they rejected 2 military flights becaus the retaliation would have blown up in trumps face. He did his tariffs. On columbia thinking it was no big deal. How WRONG TRUMP IS COLUMBIA will retaliate and the rest of the world will support their retaliation! Bully trump getting schooled!

Bully boy off and running after one week …

Columbia has it right: NEVER bow down to a petty bully. Happy to put up with expensive coffee until Trump either grows up or leaves the White House.

Trauma Trauma omg? I hope the president of Columbia doesn't bend to this bullying crap about tariffs..

Trump that loveable stinky putrid malignant Narcissist that loves to bully everyone. Gonna be a Mess. Just say this mantra it simplifies anything that Donald J. Trump does. Trump's just gonna F*ck it up. Is like STUPID IS as STUPID DOES. That fits Trump too. Major MAGA Bully and Idiot.

I am so glad those countries are standing up to this bully and his fascist party. I am also glad he is putting tariffs on them which means things over here will become higher for all of us. Yes the good is going to have to suffer with those that wanted to see how it feels to have this country ran by the lawless, no morals racists people in this country. To have rapist, drunks and traitor to this country in charged. And those White people that voted for him they are going to feel it to maybe even more because he takes his money right out of their account every month and they can not stop it. They need to listen to Billy Graham sermon called Choices. Please do not never think Franklin Graham is like his father he is not he is like the father that Christ speaks about in John 8 verse 44 and all those that voted for Trump and helped spread or spreading his lies. The word called them oligarchies and Trump calls them his people but the bible calls the MAGA party, the false men and women that help spreads his lies and those that worship Trump an Idolater. All of them are from Franklin Graham to the proud boys. These so call men and women of their god have deceived many for him. Those corrupted judges or no different than the proud boys. The whole MAGA party is no different than the proud boys. These people are no different than the racists proud boys, 700 club, TBN, Jentezen Franklin, Donnie Swaggart, John Hagee, Jim Jordan, Mike Johnson, Mike Huckabee, Paula White. No different just different level in life but in God's eyes they all on the same worshipping a man. And to the rich read about the rich man that went to hell, and about the rich man that built his barn. We only make them strong they can only do what we allowed them to do. There are more good in this country than those evil people. I hear a man say you can take 100 evil people and make millions fall in line and do what they say because they fear what the evil people can do. One thing I do know for sure God and me are enough... but God and me and millions more of children we will do just fine in the next two years and more.

Trump is picking on weaker countries, but what if those countries United against the US and put and end to this bullying

Bravo Columbia!. All countries of the world need to stand up to this bully.

Pixel brained Trumpers: Your orange dictator better watch it, or he will have no allies. We are not afraid of this bully, and collectively, countries are uniting. Have fun with the tariffs, because you reap what you sow. CNN you suck. Almost as bad as Fox.

Bully your allies and they will cut ties. Shocker. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes lol.

DJT is a crybaby and a bully.

Trump will lose you cannot bully your way world wide. Trump has NO negotiating skills he just short pays contracts locally America is doomed with the orange ? at the helm

Welcome to GTW,global trade war,DJ Trump,GEORGE BUSH,WMD, not everyone bends over, great to stand up to bullies,eggs and bacon, what a brain.

Congratulations America electing Trump means you won’t have any country working with you on any level. \n\nNo one like a bully

That’s what bullies do when they don’t get their own way. \nI guess the cost of groceries are off discussion. AH.

Colombia, don't back down to this bully.

WHAT A BIG FAT BULLY TRUMP IS. HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW HOW TARIFFS WORK!! WHAT A FOOL!!! GLAD I LIVE IN CANADA!!

Very soon the american voters that vote for bully Trump .Will realicé the stupid desiccion that they make ...they don't understand what his food that they are eaten very soon Will be Discovery ...\nThe ignorance is bold...

Trump is going ruin the US and isolate the country from the civilized world. The executive order to put a yellow patch on all that don’t applaud him will come soon. But the rest of the world will stand up to this bully

No surprise. Bullies be bullying.

Good, no need to be bullied by grifting globalists propaganda excuses and racial guilt psyops.

Trump , the neighborhood bully

The stupidity of a bully Trump ,Petro colombiano president is ridicuullos .\nPetro bold desiccion is very stupid reacción to a very bully USA president ..

Good for Colombia. You have to push back on bullies. Let Colombia send a few squads to the White House and have a talk with Donnie.