The president has vowed to “do something” about the offending beverage
has a problem. Not a drinking problem—the president, a famous teetotaler, hasn’t touched a drop in decades. No, Trump is addicted to tariffs. And, like an alcoholic who wakes up naked on the Staten Island ferry with a tattoo of a box of marshmallow Peeps on his left ass cheek, he has hit rock bottom.
Yes, Tariff Man spent Friday in Normandy, and his takeaway was that French wine has been given a pass for too long. “France charges us a lot for the wine. And yet we charge them very little for French wine,” Trumpduring in an interview with CNBC on Monday.
According to Bloomberg, the U.S is currently “the biggest client for EU wine producers,” purchasing almost a third of the bloc’s exports in 2017. On the flip-side, the US accounts for just 16 percent of the EU‘s wine imports. Last fall, amidst a Twitter tiradeTrump claimed that wine in the U.S. is just as good as the stuff they make in France. Trump, of course, owns Trump Winery, a Charlottesville vineyard run byIn another sign of the deteriorating relationship with the U.S.
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