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DONALD TRUMP BOASTED he made things up in a conversation with Canada’s prime minister, insisting the US ran a trade deficit with its neighbour despite having “no idea” if the claim were true.
The US president recalled the exchange with Justin Trudeau in a fundraising speech in Missouri, of which the paper said it had obtained an audio recording.
“Trudeau came to see me. He’s a good guy, Justin. He said, ‘No, no, we have no trade deficit with you, we have none. Donald, please,’” Trump said, imitating Trudeau, the Washington Post said.
“Nice guy, good-looking guy, comes in — ‘Donald, we have no trade deficit.’ He’s very proud because everybody else, you know, we’re getting killed.
“… So, he’s proud. I said, ‘Wrong, Justin, you do.’ I didn’t even know. … I had no idea. I just said, ‘You’re wrong.’”
Trump added: “You know why? Because we’re so stupid. … And I thought they were smart. I said, ‘You’re wrong, Justin.’ He said, ‘Nope, we have no trade deficit.’ I said, ‘Well, in that case, I feel differently,’ I said, ‘but I don’t believe it.’ I sent one of our guys out, his guy, my guy, they went out, I said, ‘Check, because I can’t believe it.’”
According to the US Trade Representative, the United States runs a trade surplus with Canada.
Trudeau met with Trump at the White House in October last year, when the conversation purportedly took place.
The Missouri speech also saw the president lash out at US allies and major global economies over trade.
Trump said allies including the European Union, Japan and South Korea, as well as China, had ripped off the United States and American workers.
“Our allies care about themselves,” he said. “They don’t care about us.”
He seemed to suggest that the United States would withdraw troops stationed in South Korea if it did not get its way with Seoul on trade.
Trump criticised other politicians for wanting to keep the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico, which is being renegotiated at Trump’s insistence.
Trump called Mexico “spoiled” and said Canada had outsmarted the United States.
“The best deal is to terminate it and make a new deal,” he said of NAFTA, according to the Post.
The president also hailed his decision to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, while criticising his White House predecessors.
“They couldn’t have met” with Kim, Trump said, after mocking former presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush. “Nobody would have done what I did.”
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One less BMW tailgating me on the m50
@Artur Gurta: comment of the day sir
@Artur Gurta: Classy…not much value on Life one must deduce.
@Margate: do you like drug dealers?
@Margate: I didn’t know bmw’s were alive
Pew pew
Pretty sure there is a car chase. Theres a garda heli going back and fowards around blanch sc and about 20 garda sirens.
@Jack lynch: found the shooter in fortlawn
@Jack lynch: A garda car flew by us chasing a car driving away from there
@Stephen Tyrrell: Hope so.
@Monika Broughill: which way were they going, i could only hear the sirens and see the heli but guessed it was probably a shooting so didnt go any closer.
@Jack lynch: We were heading to Hartstown, they flew by us heading towads the centre
@Monika Broughill: i think they went through blanch from there cause the heli went over towards westend and then back up by the industrial estate
@Monika Broughill: you’ve got flying cars in Dublin…. I must admit you’s Dubs have a paler shade of complexity ….
@Jack lynch: We saw it going but we didn’t stop so not sure what happened.
@Stephen Tyrrell: wrong !!!!
@David Farrell: care to elaborate?
@Jack lynch: no
@David Farrell: Hahaha no problem
@Jack lynch: If he’s got he’s going away for a long… I mean a couple of years.
Another one bites the dust. The UK have knife casualties, we have gun casualties.
Where’s the post I put up asking the question about why ye didn’t report on the 180 illegal immigrants and asylum seekers and counting, that were caught driving taxis in Ireland among them Isis supporters and s3x offenders. Ye seem to be borrowing you heads in the sand. At the last count it was nearly 300 thumbs up in an hour. Yer not in touch with the real world I’m afraid.
Same road where yer man was shot few weeks back.
@Uncle Montys oaf: ye just about 500 yards up it and same last name but not related to each other
@Kenneth O Brien: do you know who the victim is?
@Jack lynch: ye
@Kenneth O Brien: not the say name
@Boeing Lover: same*
Jeez our city has gone to the dogs!! Every day there are stories of drug seizures…which is good and worse…shootings!! Revolving door judicial system does not help our Gardai trying to get the s%$m off our streets.
There dead outside a shop
@Kenneth O Brien: no they’re not. Critical in hospital at the moment
@Aideen Pollard: DEAD
@Kenneth O Brien: wrong
@TheTrustedChalice: nope, just on 9pm news, critical but stable
I’m sure he was a pillar of society
@Rory Mahon: Absolutely. On his way home from “work”
Can we just throw Dublin away? It’s really doing a number on our murder rate.
@Jason Genovani: Yep. Has become an Embarrassing wee spot, alright.
@Margate: yes so embarrassing. My god.
Loads of cops at the border Brit watching
@John Hartigan: Where would we be without Brexit. Ask FG.
Passing by, on the scene, there is a van stopped and it seems they shot on the glass of the door. The road is still closed
Need stricter gun laws… Oh I forget, we have the strictest gun laws already.
Point of order: Mulhuddart is north Dublin.
@Hundredth Idiot: point of order: Mulhuddart is West Dublin.
@kokonutter: Hahaha. Yep west.
@Hundredth Idiot: east Ireland
@Hundredth Idiot: No it’s not…it’s West Dublin. I live in North Dublin…no such problems here…..I wish!!!
Posted from??
Just say no
Plus all the reply’s were erased to from other people.
The new chief Wiggum is doing some job!
Slowly starting to get outta hand let’s be honest here as bad as Limerick was this is on a new level.
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