In Stunning Pair of
Interviews, Trump Slams NATO And EU, Threatens BMW With Tax; Prepared To
"Cut Ties" With Merkel
by Tyler
Durden
Jan 16, 2017
In two separate, and quite
striking, interviews with Germany's Bild (paywall)
and London's Sunday Times (paywall),
Donald Trump did what he failed to do in his first US press conference, and
covered an extensive amount of policy and strategy, much of which however will
likely please neither the pundits, nor the markets.
Among the numerous topics
covered in the Bild interview, he called NATO obsolete, predicted that other
European Union members would join the U.K. in leaving the bloc and threatened
BMW with import duties over a planned plant in Mexico, according to a Sunday
interview granted to Germany’s Bild newspaper that will raise concerns in
Berlin over trans-Atlantic relations. Furthermore, in his first
"exclusive" interview in the UK granted to the Sunday Times, Trump
said he will offer Britain a quick and “fair” trade deal with America within
weeks of taking office to help make Brexit a “great thing”. Trump revealed that
he was inviting Theresa May to visit him “right after” he gets into the White
House and wants a trade agreement between the two countries secured “very
quickly”.
Trump told the Times that
other countries would follow Britain’s lead in leaving the European Union,
claiming it had been deeply damaged by the migration crisis. “I think it’s
very tough,” he said. “People, countries want their own identity and the UK
wanted its own identity.”
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