Също така според руската преса (не успях да намеря нищо в източника на който се позовават), когато Макрон му е казал, че ЕС и САЩ имат общ проблем в търговията и това е Китай, Тръмп е отвърнал, че ЕС са по-лоши от Китай.During a private meeting at the White House in late April, Trump was discussing trade with French President Emmanuel Macron. At one point, he asked Macron, “Why don’t you leave the E.U.?” and said that if France exited the union, Trump would offer it a bilateral trade deal with better terms than the E.U. as a whole gets from the United States, according to two European officials. The White House did not dispute the officials’ account, but declined to comment.
Освен това на срещата на G7, Тръмп е изнесъл тирада на Европейските лидери със заключението, че НАТО е също толкова лоша, колкото и НАФТА.
What we're hearing: In one extraordinary riff during his meeting with the G7 heads of state earlier this month in Quebec, Trump told the other leaders: "NATO is as bad as NAFTA." An official read this quote to me from notes transcribed from the private meeting.
Behind the scenes: Trump made the comment after telling the G7 leaders that Crimea probably should belong to Russia because everyone there speaks Russian, the source added. Trump then went on his usual riff about Germany not paying its fair share of defense spending, said the Europeans weren't paying enough and that the U.S. is being ripped off.
Then Trump said of the NATO Summit on July 11-12 in Brussels: "It will be an interesting summit. NATO is as bad as NAFTA. It's much too costly for the U.S."
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Всичко това поражда както в мен, така и в ЕС, съмнения в адекватността на Тръмп и в неговите знания относно външната търговия, ЕС и НАТО.Alexander Vershbow, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia and deputy secretary general of NATO who is now at the Atlantic Council, tells Axios Putin "probably can't believe his lucky stars."
"This has been the Russian and the Soviet objective — to undermine NATO, to cause it to lose its cohesion and resolve — since NATO's founding in 1949."
Vershbow notes that many of the key topics for the NATO summit, including a new "readiness initiative" and updated command structure, were actually U.S. ideas. Despite that, he said, it's not out of the question that Trump could adopt Putin's line that exercises and troops on the bloc's eastern flank are "provocative," echoing his statements about joint exercises with South Korea.

