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United States President Donald Trump has claimed that the US is engaged in “stupid trade,” rather than “free trade.”
Trump made this assertion on his Truth Social account on Thursday, stating that the entire world is exploiting the US.
This comes after he threatened to impose a 200 per cent tariff on alcohol products from France and other European countries, further escalating trade tensions among US allies.
“The U.S. doesn’t have free trade. We have ‘stupid trade.’ The entire world is ripping us off!” Trump wrote.
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Prior to this message, Trump had also stated: “The European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the World, which was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States, has just put a nasty 50% tariff on Whisky.”
In other news, Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has claimed that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, is “afraid” to tell U.S. President Donald Trump that he wants to continue the war.
Zelenskyy made this statement on Thursday evening, following Putin’s response to the ceasefire deal earlier in the day.
The Ukrainian president described Putin’s words as “very predictable” and “very manipulative.”
According to Zelenskyy, Russia’s president is preparing to reject the ceasefire proposal.
“Putin, of course, is afraid to say directly to President Trump that he wants to continue this war, he wants to kill Ukrainians,” Zelenskyy said.
“That’s why they in Moscow are framing the idea of silence with such preconditions that nothing will happen at all or that it will not happen for as long as possible.”
