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Ziggurat said:
The EU as a whole imports something like $500 million of US wine per year. I'm not sure why you think the French wouldn't want much of that.
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Because they have their own wine and are notoriously snobbish when it comes to inferior foreign types?
 
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"Today, we gathered for Diwali, a holiday observed by Buddhists, Sikhs, and Jains throughout the United States & around the world. Hundreds of millions of people have gathered with family & friends to light the Diya and to mark the beginning of a New Year."

"It was my great honor to host a celebration of Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, in the Roosevelt Room at the @WhiteHouse this afternoon. Very, very special people! https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...sident-trump-diwali-ceremonial-lighting-diya/ …"
 
Ziggurat said:
Sure, but it's primarily for the benefit of the French wine producers.



I'm not really interested in speculation about Trump's motives, but US winemakers have been complaining about the tariff difference for years. It may seem like small amounts of money to you, but actually wine producers care about it quite a bit.
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Italy produces more wine than France, so not sure I'd agree.

I read your article. Hardly surprising a trade group has a beef about tariffs. It appears obvious they are complaining much more about Japan, India (15% and 150% tariff by value respectively) and emerging markets vs. the 1-2% on an average quality bottle of wine sent to the EU. Hell, the good stuff, which I would imagine is the bulk of the exports, is way below 1% because the tariff is per bottle, not by value.

From that very trade group after Trumps's comments:

“The US charges 5 to 14 cents a standard bottle on EU wine … The EU charges 11 to 29 cents a bottle on American wine. So there is a slight disparity. However, not the level that the President seems to imply here,” said Michael Kaiser, vice president at the Wine Institute. “We would support a trade agreement that would make the tariffs more equal, however we don’t want to see this lead to another trade war like we are seeing with China.”
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If you don't want to speculate on Trump's motives, that's cool. I'm perfectly comfortable saying A) his tweet was completely inaccurate and B) it has nothing to do with any concern about wine tariffs, but rather his new beef with Macron and France.
 
US First Lady Melania Trump has called for a top national security aide to President Donald Trump to be fired.

The first lady feuded with Mira Ricardel, the deputy national security adviser, during her tour of Africa in October, US media report.

"It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that she no longer deserves the honour of serving in this White House," her spokeswoman said.

The White House and the National Security Council has yet to comment.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46202896
 
Captain_Swoop said:
US First Lady Melania Trump has called for a top national security aide to President Donald Trump to be fired.

The first lady feuded with Mira Ricardel, the deputy national security adviser, during her tour of Africa in October, US media report.

"It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that she no longer deserves the honour of serving in this White House," her spokeswoman said.

The White House and the National Security Council has yet to comment.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46202896
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Sounds like somebody said "no" to Trump's immigrant whore.
 
The number of hate crimes reported in the United States jumped by 17 percent last year, the largest increase since 2001 when the terrorist hijackings on 9/11 fueled a surge in attacks on Americans of Muslim and Arab ancestry.

U.S. law enforcement agencies reported a total of 7,175 hate crimes in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016 and the third consecutive annual increase, the FBI said in its annual hate crime report released on Tuesday. More than 60 percent of the incidents were designated as crimes against persons such as assault and intimidation.

The victims represented a cross section of society, with African-Americans and Jews the most frequently targeted victims. Of 34 bias motivation categories tracked by the FBI, all but five reported an increase.
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Linky.

Coincidence?
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Because they have their own wine and are notoriously snobbish when it comes to inferior foreign types?
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But they are not inferior. Great wine is made all over the world. Check out a movie called Bottle Shock. It's about a famous wine competition held in France in 1976 where California wines were considered superior to their French counterparts. The Judgement of Paris.

The blind taste test has been repeated and time and time again American wines have proved to be just as good and very often better than the greatest vintages from France.
 
ShadowSot said:
And people prefer Pepsi in a blind taste test. Cultural bias.
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That's actually an interesting case, because there's a difference between a sip and an entire drink. They aren't the same experience. If you give people just a sip, then they prefer a sip of Pepsi, since it's sweeter. And that's what the blind taste tests were testing. But over the course of an entire can, that sweetness becomes cloying, and more people prefer a coke over a pepsi for a whole drink. The failure to recognize the difference is what led to the New Coke disaster, where Coke tried to replicate Pepsi's success of sip tests.
 
Why isn't anyone wishing to dispel the notion of French snobbery citing sales figures?
 
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