The European Union treats us very badly; they have for years. I saw that I had it out with them in my first term. I did well, but we had to solve other problems, and we did. But, uh, the. But, uh, the European Unionhisdtoo,’s our tu? We, you know? We get a turn at that also, but they have not been fair. They sue our companies and, uh, win massive amounts offkey. They sued Apple and won 7 billion, and they used that also, but they have nonillion, and they used that also but they have not knocking it. They’re what they should.
to be doing reciprocal tariffs so whatever they choose. se. They’re charging them. Nob. Nobody complains about that. Whatever it is, it doesn’t even matter what itis. If they charge us,. If they charge ,us, uh, 25% or 20% or 10% or 25% or 2% or 200%, then that’s what we’re charging them, and, uh, so I don’t know why people get upset about that because there’s nothing more fair than that. We blur Ireland correspondent.
Steven Murphy was in the Oval Office for that meeting. He joins me now, liv. So, on this issue of tariffs and trad ,Donald Trump is not happy with Ireland and certainly not happy with the EU. Look, okay, in any other St. Patrick’s week, this would have been regarded as an almost unimaginably confrontational encounter between the Tánaiste, the Irish Prime Minister and the sitting US preside. We We don’t usually get the kind of rhetoric in the Oval Office on these occasions but I can tell you that the Irish delegation will be leaving the.
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val Office in the White House after that particular meeting, really feeling that they got away pretty likely because time and time again throughout that 51-minute encounter we saw the Irish really getting away,uh with a lot of the criticism that they were worried would be directed their way by Trump and instead we saw him focusing his eye over and over again on the Brussels bogeyman and talking about how the EU was to blame for so much of the abuse,the economic abuse that the United States is currently facing. He did bring up the,
large trade deficit and goods that the US has with Ireland, it stands at around $80 million according to the US side ,around 50 million EUR if you believe the Irish statistics. But he said he clearly hinted that something would need to be done about that but again and again he even used the example of his golf resort, saying that the Irish were so efficient in approving his expansion plans for that but when it came to the EU, it was going to take him between five and seven years to get that through. Herailed against the EU time and time again. gain.
Again, so obviously,uh with the announcement of a new raft of measures from Brussels in response to the steel and aluminum, uh, tariffs that Trump has brought in, I was able to ask the president, Well, what was next in terms of the tariffs?” and call the US being taken advantage of. This is what he told us about being taken advantage of. This is what he told us: Will they retaliate? Of course I’m going to respond. You’ll retaliate. The. The problem is our country didn’t respond. Look, okay, the EU was set up in order to take advantage.
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of the United States ,including Ireland. Is Ireland taking advantage of the US? Of course they are. can’t, you know. I have great respect for Ireland and what they did and they should have done just what they did but the United States shouldn’t have let it happen. We had stupid leaders. We had leaders that didn’t have a clue or let’s say they weren’t businesspeople, but they didn’t have a clue what was happening. I’m not happy with the European Union. I want to tell you we’re going to win that. We’re going.
To win that financial battle, it’s a financial European car. Mr. President, TS on European cars, is that something you’re going to to consider?? Oh, absolutely, I will do that. Think of it; they have millions of cars coming in, millions and millions of cars. one of them is Japan; it’s very big too, but they don’t accept our cars. We have great cars; they don’t have our cars but we have their cars. They don’t have our farm products; we have the greatest farmers in the world; they don’t accept our farm.
products and we accept theirs so of course he says Ireland is taking advantage of the US, something that no US president has ever said in one of these meetings but could you sense it?? There was almost a sneaking admiration from Trump, that businessman. He said he respected Ireland and what they have done in terms of luring, uh, lucrative US multinationals to Ireland to pay billions of dollars in tax and he blamed the stupid leaders that the US previously had so it was almost a sneaking admiration for what the Irish.
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have managed to get away with, even though he now will turn his attention on how to rectify that and make it more of a two-way street. It was a very wide-ranging presser, as so often. It was a very wide-ranging presser, as so often it was about McGregor playing golf with Rory McIlroy and the key issue of Russia and that deal. He remained fairly uh tight lipped and he said he wouldn’t be commenting on his plans to speak directly and pitch that deal to President Putin, so we’ll have to wait and see what the next development is.
