Donald Trump Calls The European Union The United States’ Biggest “Foe”

On Sunday, President Donald Trump called the European Union the biggest “foe” of the U.S. in an interview with CBS.

When asked by CBS Evening News anchor Jeff Glor about who he thinks America’s biggest foe is, globally, right now Trump said, “Well, I think we have a lot of foes. I think the European Union is a foe, what they do to us is in trade. Now, you wouldn’t think of the European Union, but they’re a foe. Russia is a foe in certain respects. 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.” Trump added, “I respect the leaders of those countries. But, in a trade sense, they’ve really taken advantage of us and many of those countries are in NATO and they weren’t paying their bills.”