In Reply to: Trump to EU: Buy US oil and gas or face tariffs. posted by FlaBruin on December 20, 2024 at 05:21:45
this is kinda how he operates. Once you step back and stop thinking of his actions as 11 dimensional chess moves, you notice that there is a much simpler throughline to his actions: he is essentially an unrestricted creature of id loosed upon the world, who operates as a chaos agent with confusion and bullying as the only tools in his shed.
So, yeah ... what he apparently said (I hadn't seen this comment, so I'm taking your word for it) would be entirely on brand.
That said, he will probably back down tomorrow when he wakes up with a different idea in the morning.