{"id":28338,"date":"2025-05-23T16:18:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28338"},"modified":"2025-05-23T16:18:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:18:34","slug":"can-trumps-50-eu-tariff-threat-stop-bitcoins-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28338","title":{"rendered":"Can Trump&#8217;s 50% EU Tariff Threat Stop Bitcoin&#8217;s Rally?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President<strong> Donald Trump<\/strong>&#8216;s threat of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/economics\/macro-economic-events\/25\/05\/45585283\/trump-tariff-threat-hits-europe-stocks-sink-as-50-duties-loom\">50% tariff on European Union goods<\/a>, set to take effect June 1, has halted the recent rally in <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) and altcoins, with experts warning of heightened market volatility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>The announcement, <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114556968834547173\">posted<\/a> on Truth Social, triggered a 4% dip in Bitcoin&#8217;s price to $108,000, alongside turbulence in the S&amp;P 500, as investors react to escalating trade tensions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicolai Sondergaard<\/strong>, a research analyst at Nansen, described the tariff threat as a likely negotiating tactic rather than a policy set to materialize. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump&#8217;s announcement seems intended to influence ongoing discussions, possibly signaling that negotiations are not progressing as intended,&#8221; Sondergaard told Benzinga. <\/p>\n<p>He noted that Bitcoin&#8217;s dip and S&amp;P 500 volatility reflect the sensitivity of risk assets to trade-related headlines, but he expects the disruption to be temporary unless further actions escalate tensions. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unless additional comments from Trump are &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/05\/45591125\/can-trumps-50-eu-tariff-threat-stop-bitcoins-rally\" alt=\"Can\" trump eu tariff threat stop bitcoin rally>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump&#8216;s threat of a 50% tariff on European Union goods, set to take effect June 1, has halted the recent rally in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and altcoins, with experts warning of heightened market volatility. What Happened: The announcement, posted on Truth Social, triggered a 4% dip in Bitcoin&#8217;s price to $108,000, alongside turbulence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-28338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}