Trump with a strange statement: See how they want to negotiate the fees, they want to kiss our asses.

They're dying to make a deal! They're calling us to kiss our ass,” Trump said during a dinner with Republican leaders, Periscope.

The US president referred in his statement to numerous foreign countries' efforts, including China, to negotiate with the United States following the establishment of new tariffs.

This statement comes at a high-tensive moment, when the White House has announced the deployment of a total fee of 104% to imports from China, as well as 20% to the European Union, escalating the trade war that has involved the world's largest economies.

Asian markets reacted with immediate decline, while European and Chinese diplomats are looking for ways to avoid escalation. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, in a telephone conversation with Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang, demanded “content and negotiated solutions”.

But Trump rhetoric seems to go in the opposite direction, signalling satisfaction from the pressure the tariffs are exercising on US business opponents.

I know what I'm doing, damn it! ” said, putting emphasis on its known, direct and challenging style, which has shared the opinion both within the country and internationally.

While analysts are divided: for some, it is a tactical movement to force partners to sit at the negotiating table with more favourable conditions for the US. For others, such escalation and the insulting language of one of the world's greatest powers is at risk of deepening divisions and weakening global commercial stability.

For now, all eyes are on Beijing and Brussels and how they will respond not only to tariffs but also to Trump's words. /eo