BREAKING: In London for NATO meeting, President Trump criticizes Democrats and the impeachment inquiry, as well as French President Macron, and suggests he may now wait until after the election to sign a trade deal with China.
by the French president critiquing NATO"insulting" and a “very, very nasty statement.” Trump went on to criticize Macron’s handing of his country’s own economy in his first public comments here.
Macron, who Trump will meet with later in the day, recently warned European allies that they could no longer rely on America to help defend them and that “we are currently experiencing is the brain death of NATO.”” once again threatened a tax on French wine in retaliation for a French tax on U.S. tech companies, saying"if anyone is going to take advantage of those companies it would be the U.S.
“You have a very high unemployment rate in France. France is not doing well economically at all,” Trump said. He added that “they had a very rough year, and you just can't go around making statements like that about NATO. It's very disrespectful.”On China, Trump suggested he may wait until after the election to sign a trade deal, after repeatedly saying he waso getting a deal done. The protracted trade war has been a point of contention with the other European allies.
Trump touted his success at squeezing more money out of America’s allies to spend on their militaries, including South Korea. He said he met with South Korean officials six or seven months ago and told them “you have to pay up” because they weren’t spending enough on their defense while the U.S. was sending billions. Trump said after the conversation, South Korea added $500 million to its military budget.
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