Britain is preparing to leave the European Union in March 2019. The complex negotiations have moved slowly and May s Cabinet seems deeply divided over how best to separate Britain from the 28-nation bloc.
Trump expressed annoyance with EU trade policy: We cannot get our product in, he said. It s very, very tough. And yet, they send their product to us no taxes, very little taxes.
He says his problems with the EU may morph into something very big from a trade standpoint.
In the interview with journalist Piers Morgan, Trump has high praise for French President Emmanuel Macron. He s a great guy, Trump says. His wife is fantastic. I like them a lot. You know, we had dinner at the top of the Eiffel Tower, and everything was closed.
yet. he doesn t have that. he doesn t have a trade deal with china. he started with this trade strategy to help who? farmers, you know, the midwest and the rust belt. are they better off today than when he started? that could be an interesting calculus for him next year. the farm bureau just said farm bankruptcies are up 24% year over year so you talk about helping the farmers with the bailout. bailout twice the size of the auto bailout. taxpayer funded some polling showed the farmers still sticking with the president. that s true. and he s got their back. see if it lasts if it carries out through november next year, hard to stomach. david sanger, this struck me. the president again talking about who is paying what, what countries are paying what into the nato alliance and it was a weird almost threat to them, nato countries not paying their way, the president says, will be dealt w let me quote him. maybe i ll deal with them from a trade standpoint.
whether it s radical islamic terrorism, whether it s the tremendous growth of china. there are a lot of other things. so nato is becoming different than it was. much bigger than it was and much stronger than it was because people are now fulfilling their commitments. there are some countries that aren t fulfilling their commitment. those countries are going to be dealt with. maybe i ll deal with them from a trade standpoint in a different way. i ll work something out where they have to pay. we don t want to have people delinquent. i don t be it s fair for us to be involved, including france, and you have countries that aren t paying their way. you know, less than 1%. a couple that are less than 1%. so nato has made a lot of progress over the last three years and the word flexibility is very important. they re not just looking at one area now. they re looking at the world. to me, it s very important.
gaulle. macron has been talking about a european defense agreement, a european defense agency in essence. so france always plays a little bit of a disruptive role. most of the time it is behind the scenes in the settled with a cool, polite, political talk in public. today we saw it right out there in front. both men went at each other politely but nonetheless in a way we re not used to seeing at international meetings. sandra: macron s words, we do pay what we have to pay. president trump went on to characterize the current state of nato. it has come a long way in three years. it is fairer. as for nato kun tres not investing enough in defense he says they ll be dealt with. maybe i ll deal with them from a trade standpoint ordeal with them another way. we re behind you 100%. the president s focus interesting to me fairness. he kept using the word fair.
at the moment. he was asked about his comments that he is a nationalist. because, remember, the president was talking about in the context of people being globalists, which is the only fair way to put. this the conversation was about others being globalists. he said i m a nationalist. now, can you interpret that however you want. i have no i can t tell you how to interpret that. i don t know how to interpret that i know that, you know, it s a worked that s been used before and if he used it that way and didn t mean to or if it was like a dog whistle, i don t know what it was. he said is he a nationalist. he may have meant look i m about this nation. i m not about the world. i m going to give him that suggested he is concerned about erdogan s comments on the khashoggi killing and, again, defend defended his poste in saudi arabia saying other countries would sell weapons to the saudi arabia and probably would. they buy weapons all over the world. our folks asked him whether he meant he