When asked what the US will do if the EU retaliates, Mr Trump said: 'They can try, but they can't.'
Donald Trump has said he will impose 25% tariffs on the EU 'very soon' and claimed the bloc was 'formed in order to screw the United States'. The US president made the remarks while holding his first cabinet meeting at the White House since his inauguration in January. The world's richest man Elon Musk, who leads the US Department of Government Efficiency but is not a cabinet member, was among those present.
' The threat of tariffs comes at a time of fragile relations between the US and Europe as the Trump administration appears to favour Moscow over Kyiv as it tries to bring about peace in Ukraine. Mr Trump shocked European leaders last week by calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a 'dictator with no elections'. Mr Zelenskyy accused the US president of living in a Russian-made 'disinformation space'.
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