The giant sucking sound heard 'round the world.
The Serbian Parliament approved a new law Friday to tear down an architectural landmark that NATO bombed in 1999, stripping it of cultural protections and clearing the way for President Trump’s family to replace it with a luxury hotel.
Plans to build a half-billion-dollar Trump-branded hotel and apartments on the site of the landmark, the former General Staff military complex in the Serbian capital of Belgrade, had been stalled after government officials who endorsed it were charged with fraud.
But last weekend, lawmakers from the governing party of President Aleksandar Vucic announced they would use an extraordinary provision in the Constitution to introduce a law that would restart the project.
The legislative wrangling drew condemnation from students, prosecutors, preservationists and opposition politicians in the latest provocation after more than a year of anticorruption protests against Mr. Vucic’s government.
…
He [The lawmaker who introduced the measure, Milenko Jovanov] also said the hotel project could curry favor with the Trump administration at a time Serbia is trying to maintain relations both with Moscow and the West. Mr. Trump has imposed a 35 percent tariff on Serbian imports, and American sanctions have hampered a Russian-owned company that is Serbia’s main oil supplier, as well as some of Mr. Vucic’s allies.
…
“Whether that will lead to improving relations with the Trump administration, with the United States — honestly, I would like that,” he [Jovanov] added.
…
Ah, I get it. 
Donnie’s ultimate motivation behind the tariffs is to bring world leaders to him crawling on their knees, begging him to accept the favors they’re offering.