President Donald Trump ripped the “stupid” political leaders in the United States on Wednesday during a meeting in the Oval Office with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin.
Trump made the remarks after stating that the entire reason the European Union was created was to “take advantage of the United States.”
The president said that Ireland was one of the countries that was taking advantage of the U.S. but that he had respect for them for doing so because that’s what he would have done if he was in their position.
“But the United States shouldn’t have let it happen,” Trump said. “We had stupid leaders. We had leaders that didn’t have a clue, or, let’s say they weren’t business people, but they didn’t have a clue what was happening.”
“And all of a sudden, Ireland has our pharmaceutical companies and other [companies], this beautiful island of 5 million…
