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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    15 hours ago

    What? Those Chinese embassy posts couldn’t have been more direct in calling America stupid.

    Or maybe he dissociates himself from the country despite being the president?