U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that the European Union is worse than China, hours after Washington and Beijing agreed to slash respective punitive tariffs and de-escalate their trade war.

“European Union is in many ways nastier than China, okay?” Trump said, as he lashed the bloc. “Oh, they’ll come down a lot. You watch. We have all the cards. They treat us very unfairly.”

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    23 hours ago

    Goes without saying. The first Trump administration shows that as long as Congress doesn’t impeach and convict you, none of the laws meant to rein in the executive mean anything.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      22 hours ago

      dude committed treason on live television and it wasn’t enough to engage the part of the constitution that says the only punishment for that is hanging