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Look, let’s be honest, the European Union was formed in order to screw the United States,
These are rich countries, especially in Western Europe,
My reaction is NATO is not in jeopardy. The only thing that puts NATO in jeopardy is the fact that we have NATO Allies who barely have militaries or whose militaries are not very capable because they’ve spent 40 years not spending any money on it,
Rubio said when asked about Merz’s comments It’ll be 25 percent, generally speaking,
In 2023, the U.S. goods trade deficit with the bloc was 155.8 billion euros, according to EU data. In services, however, the U.S. had a surplus of 104 billion euros, bringing the overall trade balance to 51.8 billion euros (roughly 56 billion U.S. dollars),
I'm not stopping the tariffs. No,
Last time that President Trump was in the White House, trade and investment between our two countries increased
The Chancellor, in Cape Town for a G20 meeting of finance ministers, told Bloomberg News They can’t; I mean they can try, but they can’t.
Asked if the bloc would retaliate, he replied I’m not going to get ahead of our discussions
The Prime Minister was asked en route to the US how confident he was that the UK will be exempted from new tariffs and replied We have made a decision and we'll be announcing it very soon, and it'll be 25% generally speaking, and that'll be on cars, and all of the things,
Trump told reporters during the first Cabinet meeting of his second term I guess I'm from there at some point a long time ago, right?"
Trump, who has made the deportation of mostly non-Western undocumented immigrants a top priority, acknowledged his origins in Europe, saying wryly We're going to have Europe do that,
The EU will react firmly and immediately against unjustified barriers to free and fair trade, including when tariffs are used to challenge legal and non-discriminatory policies,
a commission spokesperson said in response to a request for comment on Trump's remarks The European Union is the world’s largest free market. And it has been a boon for the United States,
We should work together to preserve these opportunities for our people and businesses. Not against each other,
They can retaliate, but it cannot be a successful retaliation, because we just go cold turkey. We don't buy anymore. And if that happens, we win.”
Asked if he expects the EU to retaliate with tariffs of their own, he said 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,
This agreement could be part of future security guarantees... an agreement is an agreement, but we need to understand the broader vision,
It was going nowhere until this administration came in – they hadn’t spoken to President Putin in two years.”
They don’t take our farm products, they take almost nothing and we take everything from them … tremendous amounts of food and farm products,
Trump complained to journalists in Florida earlier this month, decrying his country’s €18 billion deficit in agri-food trade with Europe
