Trump towards Ireland: he took away US firms | EUROtoday

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“Mutual duties are about to arrive,” stated the president of the United States, Donald Trump. Trump, who welcomed the Irish prime minister, Micheál Martin, to the White House, and accused Ireland of getting “taken away the American companies” with its tax insurance policies. “We don’t want to do anything to hit Ireland but we want to be correct,” he added.

The United States “will no longer be mistreated on trade,” stated Trump, talking by the oval studio. Speaking of flexibility on the duties, the president stated that “there will be little once we have started”. In specific, Trump guarantees “retaliation” towards the duties imposed by the EU. “I will answer.” And he stated he was satisfied that the United States “will win the commercial battle with the European Union”.

He then promised: “I will lower taxes for companies if the Democrats behave well” and thus answered a query of the press if he supposed to observe the mannequin of Ireland.