- President Donald Trump is threatening the European Union with more tariffs.
- Trump said the US could impose more “large scale Tariffs” on the EU and Canada.
- Trump said this would “protect” the US, the “best friend that each of these two countries has ever had.”
President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he plans to impose additional tariffs on the European Union and Canada if they work together to do “economic harm” to the US.
“If the European Union works with Canada in order to do economic harm to the USA, large scale Tariffs, far larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both in order to protect the best friend that each of those two countries has ever had!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Thursday morning.
Trump’s remarks come just after he signed an executive order to impose a 25% tariff on auto imports on Wednesday. Since returning to office, Trump has introduced multiple tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, China, and the European Union.
Freshly sworn-in Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney chose to make his first overseas visits to France and the UK instead of the US.
During his trip to France earlier this month, Carney called Canada the “most European of non-European countries.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
