‘Go Find Another Sucker Nation’: Trump Fires Off Fresh Threat to Ten More Countries WHO NOW?
It is not clear what prompted the president’s latest threatening rant.
by Janna Brancolini
Updated Jan. 31 2025 6:56AM EST
Published Jan. 31 2025 6:26AM EST
President Donald Trump sits at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office on Jan. 30.
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President Donald Trump took to social media on Thursday night to threaten 10 more countries with tariffs if they replace the U.S. dollar as their reserve currency.
“The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar, while we stand by and watch, is OVER,” he wrote in a post on Truth Social. “We are going to require a commitment from these seemingly hostile Countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs.”
It wasn’t immediately clear what inspired the evening rant. Starting Saturday, Trump also plans to hit Mexico and Canada with 25 percent tariffs.
In late November, Trump posted almost the exact same threat verbatim against the BRICS countries, a term that was originally coined to describe the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China.
They’ve since formed an official international organization that also includes South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia.
An exchange with a reporter at the Oval Office on Jan. 20 revealed Trump didn’t even know which countries were in BRICS.
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Poster Comment:
A bigger threat to the U.S. Dollar is China moving to release a 20% gold backed Yuan. If that happens the Dollar would crumble into dust since it is backed by nothing but promises to pay.