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Trump: “The EU is very, very bad to us”

Donald Trump has headed straight to actions. Right from his first minutes in the White House, he cut the Gordian knot and implemented a major change of course in U.S. economic policy. Not only is he threatening to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% tariff on their products exported to the U.S. from February 1, but China and the European Union must also prepare for an economic earthquake.

Indeed, Trump is threatening to charge a very high import tariff on products from China. The America First policy of the 47th president of the United States also seeks to address relations with the EU.

Donald Trump, whose paternal grandparents were from Germany and he who is himself married to a Slovenian, wants to hit the EU. “China is taking advantage of us, but also the European Union is very, very bad to us,” he said at a White House press conference. “They don't want our cars and they don't need our agricultural products. They pretty much take nothing.”

Trump said he has “a $350 million deficit” with the European Union. “So we're going to impose tariffs. It's the only way we're going to get that (money) back. It's the only way we're going to get equality. You can't get that equality without imposing those tariffs.”

(FVDV for Tagtik/Source: NBC - Euronews - Reuters/Picture by © European Union, 2025, via Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC BY 4.0)

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Franco Vandevelde - Journalist NL @Tagtik

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