@POTUS · 20 Jan 2026 · 14:30
They froze our money. Read that again. The European Union has frozen the assets of the United States of America.
Over an island with 56,000 people that they were never going to defend anyway.
We hold the reserve currency. We clear the world's trade. They have spent thirty years living inside a system we built and they have decided today, at lunchtime, to test it. Fine. Let's test it.
The freeze broke the payment chain four days later and stranded the American withdrawal from Europe on the ramp at Ramstein. No supplier in Germany could lawfully sell the Air Force fuel.
Two closings collapsed this morning. Both buyers pulled when their rate lock repriced overnight.
I understand none of the geopolitics. I understand that a family of four is not moving into a house on Saturday because of something that happened in Brussels at lunchtime.
"Let's test it."
Sir, with respect: the thing you are proposing to test is the belief that American assets are safe to hold. That belief is not a policy. It is the foundation the entire system stands on and it is the one thing in your possession that cannot be rebuilt if it breaks.
You do not get to run this experiment twice.
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