President Trump held an impromptu press conference Sunday night on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews as he returned to the White House from Palm Beach, Florida, and he discussed numerous subjects like the newly announced tariffs against Canada and Mexico. One area that stood out was when he lambasted the United Kingdom and the European Union for their unfair trade practices.
They stack the deck, he charged:
[The EU has] taken advantage of, I said, you know, we have over $300 billion deficit. They don’t take our cars, they don’t take our farm products, they take almost nothing, and we take everything from them—millions of cars, tremendous amounts of food and farm product.
…the European Union is really out of line. [The] UK is out of line, but I’m sure—I think—that one can be worked out, but the European Union is an atrocity, what they’ve done.
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