Trump Reveals To Reporters His Take On JD Vance's Comments In The Leaked Signal Group Chat

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President Trump responds to Vice President JD Vance's comments in the leaked Signal group chat.

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00:00time ago, or one or two more.

00:02What did you make of the Vice President's comments

00:04that he doesn't like bailing out the Europeans?

00:07Do you agree with that?

00:08Well, I understand where he's coming from.

00:10The European Union has been treating us very, very badly

00:13in terms of the VAT tax that they charge.

00:16They charge a tremendous VAT tax and

00:20they don't sell our cars in Europe.

00:22They don't sell our agriculture in Europe.

00:24They don't let us do very much.

00:26They treat us very badly.

00:27One of the reasons I'm putting tariffs on is

00:29that we take millions of their cars,

00:32BMW, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz.

00:36We take millions and millions of their cars.

00:38They take none.

00:39I don't know if they take any of our cars.

00:41And they have non-monetary tariffs

00:43where it's impossible for us to sell a car,

00:46almost, in Europe.

00:48And so I understand what he's saying.

00:50Same thing with NATO.

00:51When I got involved, these mostly European countries,

00:55as you know, we had 28 at the time,

00:58and only seven were paid.

01:00And most of them were not paid.

01:0220-some-odd countries were not paid,

01:05or they were substantially less than they're supposed to be.

01:09And the United States was literally making up

01:12the difference in Europe, and it's very unfair.

01:14So I understand.

01:15I didn't know he made that statement, but if he did,

01:17I mean, I'm okay with it.

01:19I complain about it all the time.

01:22The European Union treats us horribly on trade,

01:25and NATO has treated now.

01:28I raised a lot of money for NATO,

01:30hundreds of billions of dollars.

01:31You were here last week when the Secretary General said,

01:34without Trump, there wouldn't be a NATO,

01:36because I got them to pay money.

01:38It was unfair.

01:39The United States was paying 80%, 90%, 100%.

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