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US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump has warned that the deal taking Britain out of the European Union may inadvertently hamper trade between London and Washington.
“Sounds like a great deal for the EU,” he said at the White House, before adding that “we have to take a look at seriously whether or not the UK is allowed to trade”.
“You know, right now, if you look at the deal, they may not be able to trade with us, and that wouldn’t be a good thing,” he said.
“I don’t think they want that at all. That would be a very big negative for the deal.”
He expressed hope that Prime Minister Theresa May will “be able to do something about that.”
The British leader on Sunday closed 17 months of painful talks with Brussels by sealing Brexit arrangements with the 27 other EU heads of state and government.
However, May faces a difficult task getting parliamentary approval for the deal.
‘I don’t believe it’
Trump also told reporters that he doesn’t believe his own government’s report last week warning of massive economic losses if carbon emissions continue to feed climate change unchecked.
“I don’t believe it,” Trump said at the White House, adding that the United States would not take measures to cut emissions if the same was not done in other countries.
Trump said he had read “some” of the report and that it was “fine.”
However, he rejected the central warning in the National Climate Assessment, which said there will be hundreds of billions of dollars in losses by the end of the century due to climate change “without substantial and sustained global mitigation.”
“No, no, I don’t believe it,” he repeated.
“You’re going to have to have China and Japan and all of Asia and all of these other countries, you know. It addresses our country,” he said.
Right now, we’re at the cleanest we’ve ever been. And that’s very important to me. But if we’re clean, but every other place on Earth is dirty, that’s not so good. So I want clean air, I want clean water, very important.
According to the report, released Friday, climate change will “cause growing losses to American infrastructure and property and impede the rate of economic growth over this century.”
The effects will spill into global trade, hitting import and export prices and US businesses with overseas operations and supply chains, it added.
Trump has long said he distrusts the consensus by nearly all the world’s respected climate scientists on the link between human activity and rising temperatures, as well as other damaging climate change phenomena.
Since becoming president in 2016 he has pulled the United States out of the international Paris Agreement on attempting to bring down global temperatures, and torn up a raft of environmental protection laws, saying the US economy needs the boost.
In October, Trump said during a visit to inspect hurricane damage in the southern state of Georgia that climate change “is going to go back and forth,” rather than be permanent.
He also gave a lukewarm reaction to publication of a major UN report warning in October of global warming-caused chaos, saying “I want to look who drew it, you know, which groups drew it, because I can give you reports that are fabulous and I can give you reports that aren’t so good.”
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This is the best form of praise I’ve seen for this deal yet.
Where`s the UK`s “Special relationship” with the US now?
@Pixie McMullen: Trump is a guy that seems to get his world news and analysis from Fox News. He’s best buddies with Nigel Farage.. because Nigel likes him.
Trump also views the EU as a trade competitor. So anything that weakens the EU in his opinion is good for the US. A bit like what his other buddy Vladimir Putin thinks about the EU too
He will do anything to help the EU fail.
@Dot Com: Speaking on behalf of his Russian masters
@michael: Yup
In fairness, the UK voted out, and the US is not a part, of the EU. UK-US relations are their problem now, and not our concern.
What a shame he doesnt understand its this deal or no deal. And if its no deal, the british economy and overall welfare will suffer dearly. If the british people reject the deal and go for the no deal so they can attempt to do all what the hard line brexiteers wished itll take less than a year before the remnants of their “empire” crumples to just england and wales, at which point their economy will have likely suffered massively . However, undoubtedly the work of people with their heads screwed on will reduce said damage somewhat, hopefully. And, despite not being qualified to say, id imagine thats a best case realistic scenario.
@Cheesy&Boring: don’t be so naive, no deal Brexit suits the US perfectly.
Don’t mind him his a Putin proxy
Looks like Putin is worried the brexit he orchestrated won’t be what he hoped it would be, he’s using his lackey to scaremonger.
@David Linehan: If you have a choice between conspiracy and cockup, go cockup. The Little Englanders are well capable of organising this disaster without input from abroad. Hell, BJ has been banging this drum since Putin was just out of the KGB…
@George Salter: I don’t think he’s taking about put in being the originator of the idea.
@David Linehan: Talk about tinfoil hat conspiracies Jesus, just read what you just posted. Don’t let a blind hatred for a person turn you into a nutjob.
Trump “I have just one question…Where is Europe again?”
Well duh…
So he read the 500 + report already
Yep. Thanks for that Donald
Ignoramus
@Johnny O Keeffe: ignoranus… Both stupid and an a’hole at the same time.
Now if we can just get the Irish government to do the same and criticise the deal and say it’s bad for N.I. and everyone in the UK then Arlene might just vote for it.
@Fr. Fintan Stack: if we say the deal means a united Ireland will never happen she’ll love the deal!
Trump doing what he’s told by Putin again, anything to try make the UK weaker so it benefits Putin.
I see all the Trump haters are out on day passes, however he’s correct. If the UK is still tied into EU regulations then that will have a serious impact on any trade deal with the US and other nations.
Trump a man who says it like it is.
No licking with the Donald.
Trump is correct about everything. It’s laughable to say his policies will bring no growth . Obama said the days of growth were over . Trump proved him wrong .
And western economies grow while being cleaner than those who refuse to sign up . Intentionally crippling yourself so an inferior competitor can gain ground on you is self destructive insanity
It will be alright. It’s like plasterparis, whatever the damage the money people will mold around this. And without understanding we will cheer as we always do
Trump should mind his own business the only thing Trump knows about is his golf course in Ireland and leave it that way
@Donal Carey: This from Trump a man who denies scientific research that says global warming is real?
His climate change opinions are delusional and dangerous, good lord. He doesn’t like the report so it’s meaningless apparently.
Trump would love boris to be PM.
What a fool.
The problem with Trump is his America first way of thinking he lied when he said he wanted to trade with UK just look at when he sided with Boeing against Bombardier it’s hard to know what Trump is thinking at any given time
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