Donald Trump is shameless.
He was barely minted as the brand new president when for some unfathomable cause determined to threaten Denmark over Greenland, demanding the Nordic nation promote the semi-desolate island for … causes. (Seemingly as a result of it inaccurately seems actually massive on a map.)
It was a part of a sample that continues to this present day—threatening Canada’s annexation and calling its prime minister “governor,” threatening to retake the Panama Canal, threatening army motion in opposition to Mexico, and imposing tariffs on allies like Taiwan, Japan, and the European Union.
Now Trump all of the sudden finds himself in a bind, having promised decrease costs on Day 1, but seeing grocery costs rise even earlier than lots of his tariffs have kicked in. And heart stage within the grocery drama are eggs, which have skyrocketed in value … in case you may even discover them.
And it seems, telling folks to “shut up about egg prices” isn’t the very best politics.
So he has requested Denmark and different international locations for assist.
You’ll be able to hear them laughing from throughout the Atlantic.
Yle, Finland’s nationwide public broadcasting firm, reported that Finland (diplomatically) refused an analogous request. Different European international locations are off the desk as a result of they don’t wash their eggs (which is why in locations like Germany and France, eggs aren’t refrigerated in grocery shops). However even when they may export to the U.S., perhaps they’d give the center finger as properly.
The Netherlands, one of many few that may, had their license revoked in January. The Trump administration is attempting to reverse the licensing situation, however even then, eggs are fragile. Flying them throughout the Atlantic will not be a logistically easy matter.
who might need eggs to assist out? Canada. Oops.
However Trump’s insufferably bullying habits shouldn’t result in an computerized “no” from potential egg exporters. Maybe they may take a web page from Trump’s ritual humiliation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin, and power Trump to point out up, demand he apologize, interrupt his each phrase with “YOU DON’T HAVE THE CARDS!” and heap insult upon insult.
Perhaps then, and solely then, ought to these international locations launch eggs into the U.S.
