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Donald Trump is now demanding repatriations from the EU and the whole of Europe responded as one

John Plunkett. Updated April 7th, 2025

If you scrunch your eyes up really tight then Donald Trump’s trade war is beginning to look like a plain old war.

Well, not quite, but it certainly ratcheted up several notches after Trump, not happy with basically slapping punitive tariffs on the entire world outside of Russia, suggested the EU should also pay the US ‘repatriations’.

‘We take their cars, their millions of cars, they take no cars … they don’t take anything.

‘Europe has treated us very badly. We put a big tariff on Europe. They are coming to the table. They want to talk, but there’s no talk unless they pay us a lot of money on a yearly basis.

‘Number one for present but also for past because they’ve taken a lot of our wealth away and we are not going to allow that to happen.’

And the entirety of Europe – well, not all of Europe, and they’re probably not all Europeans – but, anyway, they all said much the same thing, right?

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