That’s the first thing Donald Trump said when Jeff Glor of the “CBS Evening News” asked him to identify America’s “biggest foe globally right now.”
But Trump didn’t stop at the European Union.
“Russia is foe in certain respects,” he said. “China is a foe economically, certainly they are a foe. But that doesn’t mean they are bad. It doesn’t mean anything. It means that they are competitive.”
While he says he respects the leaders of those countries, he repeated his mantra that they’ve been taking advantage of the U.S. for a long time.
His comments follow months of Trump jabs aimed at longtime U.S. allies over trade policies. Earlier this year, his administration implemented costly tariffs on imports from the EU, which drew retaliatory measures.
And what did the president of the European Union have to say in response?
America and the EU are best friends. Whoever says we are foes is spreading fake news.
— Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) July 15, 2018
