President Donald Trump used his favorite threat, a tariff, against countries that levy a digital service tax against American companies.

Trump made the threat on his social media platform Truth Social on Friday.

“Numerous European Countries have been discussing the imminent implementation of a Digital Services Tax on American Companies. Some of these Countries are close to actually doing this. Please let this statement serve to represent that any Country that imposes such a Tax will immediately be met with a 100% TARIFF on any and all Goods sent to the United States of America. This TARIFF will supersede Trade Deals made with the Country, whether implemented, signed, or not. Additionally, the 100% TARIFF will be immediately imposed, if they proceed. Thank you for your attention to this matter,” Trump wrote.

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This is not the first time Trump has threatened a tariff over a digital services tax. Earlier this month, he threatened French exporters with a 100% tariff on wine and champagne.

“I asked [French President Emmanuel Macron] not to charge American companies, and if they do, I have no choice but to charge a 100% tariff on all champagnes and all wines coming out of France,” Trump told The New York Post. “All he has to do is get rid of the sales tax, and he wouldn’t have that kind of pressure.”

Digital service taxes are a way to tax income on companies without a physical presence in a country, but do business there via the internet, according to Public Citizen. It’s a tax on gross revenue earned from users in a specific country. As an example, if someone in Freedonia buys a book off Amazon.com, a DST would cause Amazon to pay income tax to Freedonia based off that sale. (Amazon does not have a presence in Freedonia on account of it being a made-up country from the film Duck Soup.)

A number of countries have or are considering implementing digital service taxes, and not just in Europe. Canada had one until recently, but it was repealed earlier this year. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has been organizing a proposal, Pillar One, which would set up a international DST across its more than 130 member nations.

Though Pillar One has not yet been enacted, a number of European countries have implemented DSTs, including Poland, Hungary, Denmark and Portugal. Many other countries, including France, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Spain, Italy and Austria have DSTs that will be repealed should Pillar One become law, according to the Tax Foundation. In France, for example, big tech companies pay 3% based on gross revenue earned from the country, earning the nation $700 million last year, according to Quartz.

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President Donald Trump gloated on social media Friday morning about keeping asylum seekers out of the United States a day after two Supreme Court rulings on immigration.

“For all of those who like to say that Barack Hussein Obama, and his Vice President, Sleepy Joe Biden, did as many Criminal ICE removals as President Trump, the figures are just in. Number One, they included hundreds of thousands of people that never came close to getting into our Country, a difference of perhaps 50% in the numbers. We don’t include such categories but, even if we did, ICE and CBP removed many more Illegal Aliens under President Trump than under Obama — It’s not even close! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

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Trump is correct that while Obama has higher deportation numbers, Obama’s numbers include border deportations as well as interior deportations, according to Deutsche Welle. In his two terms, Obama deported 3.1 million people; Trump deported 932,000 in his first term and approximately 300,000 during his second, DW reports.

Trump has far more interior deportations—which DW reports quadrupled during the last year. That’s partially due to a controversial policy just upheld by the Supreme Court. Under Trump, Customs and Border Patrol launched a controversial policy where border agents would physically block would-be asylum seekers at the border. To seek asylum, one must enter the United States; Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority, ruled that since the seekers were physically unable to cross the border, they had not entered the country and thus could not apply for asylum.

Alito also wrote the majority opinion for another case decided Thursday, allowing the Trump administration to strip Temporary Protected Status from Haitians and Syrians living in the United States. Alito ruled that despite the various racist comments made by Trump about members of those communities, the decision was not itself racist. Instead, he wrote, Trump showed he was broadly against TPS as a policy, so his racist comments were immaterial.

While Trump gloats about removing “more Illegal Aliens”, not everyone deported was in the country illegally. There are numerous reports of ICE and CBP detaining and deporting people who have legally immigrated to the United States.

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Outgoing Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky slammed President Donald Trump’s insistence on passing the SAVE Act.

Massie made the comments to reporters Friday morning in a News Nation clip surfaced by journalist Aaron Rupar.

“I’ll vote for the SAVE Act, but I think it’s a distraction from our real problems.I think it’s ironic that we control the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court and the White House, and we’re yelling ‘election fraud’? I mean, we won all the damn elections!” Massie said.

Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections." pic.twitter.com/dynY1dbEjs

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 26, 2026

The SAVE Act—also known as the SAVE America Act, or by its official name, the Safeguard America Voter Eligibility Act—has been pushed by Trump as a way to fight election fraud. It would require people provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote, and show photo ID while at the polls. There is no evidence of widespread election fraud.

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The SAVE Act passed the House—with one Democrat, Texan Rep. Henry Cuellar joining Republicans—but the bill has languished in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) says he won’t bring the bill to a vote because it doesn’t have the support needed to pass.

Trump has been vocal on getting the SAVE Act passed. On Wednesday, he called for an end to the filibuster. Though the Act likely has about 50 votes—enough to pass with a simple majority—it would be filibustered in the Senate. A filibuster boosts the requirement to pass to 60, which would be nearly impossible. All 53 Republicans would need to be present and vote for it, plus seven Democrats. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is currently on health leave after being hospitalized this month.

The same day, Trump announced that he would not be signing the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act until the SAVE Act is passed. That bill is set to reduce housing prices and limit corporate ownership of homes. It passed both chambers by an overwhelming majority—85-5 in the Senate and 393-13 in the House.

“Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump wrote.

It’s unknown if or how the SAVE Act will progress. Some senators suggest it could be put into a budget reconciliation bill, requiring only a simple majority, according to the Hill. In that case, however, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough would have to backtrack on her previous decision that it could not be included due to the Byrd Rule. The Byrd Rule determines the kind of proposals that can be bundled into a budget reconciliation bill.

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