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The European Union was formed in order to screw the United States. That's the purpose of it, and they've done a good job of it,
Speaking to reporters, Trump asserted ... adding that
The EU wasn't formed to screw anyone,
Tusk said in an X postWe are committed and prepared to do so,
he said in northern SpainWe are the pot of gold. We're the one that everybody wants and they can retaliate. But it cannot be a successful retaliation because we just go cold turkey. We don't buy any more. And if that happens, we win,
Trump responded
Every single time the president engages in diplomacy, you guys preemptively accuse him of conceding to Russia,
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The overall goal here with the DOGE team is to help address the enormous deficit we simply cannot sustain as a country $2 trillion deficits,
Musk saidThey (the EU) don't accept our cars, they don't accept essentially our farm products, they use all sorts of reasons why not, and we accept everything of them, and we have about a three hundred billion deficit with the EU,
Trump saidWe'll be announcing it very soon and it'll be 25 percent, generally speaking."
Asked if he had made a decision on tariff levels for the European Union, Trump added
We should work together to preserve these opportunities for our people and businesses. Not against each other,
Gill said
The European Union is the world’s largest free market. And it has been a boon for the United States,
he said,I guess I'm from there at some point a long time ago, right?"
Trump, who has made the deportation of undocumented immigrants a top priority, acknowledged his origins in Europe, saying wryly
By creating a large and integrated single market, the EU has facilitated trade, reduced costs for EU exporters and harmonized standards and regulations across all our member states. As a result, U.S. investments in Europe are highly profitable,
Gill said
The EU will react firmly and immediately against unjustified barriers to free and fair trade,
European Commission trade spokesman Olof Gill said in a statementNobody has to gain from a trade war,
she said,We're going to have Europe do that,
Trump said
This agreement could be part of future security guarantees... an agreement is an agreement, but we need to understand the broader vision,
he added in Kyiv
I’m not going to make security guarantees beyond very much - we’re going to have Europe do that because we’re talking about Europe [who] is their next door neighbour,
Mr Trump saidIt was going nowhere until this administration came in – they hadn’t spoken to President Putin in two years.”
He said today