Trump Asked Point Blank If 'Ireland Is Taking Advantage Of The US' Right Next To Taoiseach

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During Wednesday's Oval Office meeting with Ireland's Taoiseach Micheál Martin, President Trump answered questions about US trade with Ireland.

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00:00Will you get more tariffs from the EU?

00:02Will you respond to their retaliation?

00:05Of course I'm going to respond.

00:07You will retaliate with more tariffs?

00:08The problem is our country didn't respond.

00:10Look, the EU was set up in order to take advantage of the United States.

00:15Including Ireland?

00:16Is Ireland taking advantage of the U.S.?

00:18Of course they are.

00:19I can't, you know, I have great respect for Ireland and what they did.

00:23And they should have done just what they did.

00:25But the United States shouldn't have let it happen.

00:27We had stupid leaders.

00:29We had leaders that didn't have a clue.

00:30Or let's say they weren't business people, but they didn't have a clue what was happening.

00:34And all of a sudden, Ireland has, you know, our pharmaceutical companies and other.

00:39This beautiful island of, it's Ireland, of 5 million people, it's got the entire U.S.

00:46pharmaceutical industry in its grasp.

00:51And you know, you mentioned housing and you mentioned other things.

00:53I mean, I have property in Ireland, as you know, and I love it.

00:57It does great.

00:59But I'd like to have, I'd like to see the United States not have been so stupid for

01:04so many years.

01:05Not just with Ireland, with everybody.

01:08You know, I looked at trade deals.

01:09I was telling the group yesterday, I looked at trade deals in term one.

01:14It's one of the reasons I decided I had to do this, because somebody had to straighten

01:18it out and I didn't see anybody that was going to.

01:21I looked at trade deals that were so bad, I'd actually say, how is it possible that

01:26this could have happened?

01:27Who would have been so stupid to let these deals happen?

01:30For instance, when the pharmaceutical company started to go to Ireland, I would have said,

01:37that's okay if you want to go to Ireland.

01:38I think it's great.

01:39But if you want to sell anything into the United States, I'm going to put a 200 percent

01:45tariff on you.

01:46So you're never going to be able to sell anything into the United States.

01:49You know what they would have done?

01:51They would have stayed here.

01:52Are you planning to lower your taxes?

01:54He's so lucky that I wasn't.

01:56Are you planning to lower taxes?

Trump Asked Point Blank If 'Ireland Is Taking Advantage Of The US' Right Next To Taoiseach

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