western alliance. the president has been critical of merkel, of macron, trudeau, famously with language used against a close ally that we ve never heard before. yeah, no, it s frankly incomprehensible, andrea. it s not like with canada the president s tweeted multiple times about their milk tariffs. they don t really even collect those. and we would have gotten rid of them as part of tpp. so it often seems like he starts with the grudge he has with another country and then tries to figure out some factoid to help support that grudge. the latest one being auto tariffs which i have have on our autos. we have on their suvs. maybe we should all get rid of all of those. but certainly we re not the aggrieved party there. one of the problems with the trade, the two-way trade with mexico, problems or benefits, is
challenged the other leaders to get rid of all tariffs, i wanted somebody to remind them we ve done that. that s what nafta did. we wiped out the tariffs in north america and in the case of our other relations with the members of g7, we would have accomplished that. that s right. that would have fixed a lot of the things in nafta the president wanted to fix. when the president talked about milk tariffs in canada, milk is one of those things outside of nafta. the point is no use the mechanism to get all these straggling bits and get to a world where we don t have these tariffs. we would have done so. the president does have a legitimate complaint on that. canada and mexico will see the united states left sugar outside of it. no country is exactly pure when it comes to this.
country. we will straighten that out. and i ll tell you what, it s what i do. it won t even be hard. and in the end we ll all get along. but they understand, and they re trying to act like, well, we fought with you in the war. they don t mention the fact that they have trade barriers against our farmers, they don t mention the fact that they re judging almost 300% tariffs. when it all straightens out, we ll all be in love again. the president was supposed to meet earlier today with the french president emmanuel macron. the meeting did not happen. officials say potentially it could be rescheduled. the president also meets later today with the canadian prime minister, the host, justin trudeau. his relationships with trudeau and macron specifically have been rather strained in recent days over the tariffs and other related issues. let s go to jim acosta.