Donald Trump has accused Ireland of stealing the US pharmaceutical industry and the tax revenue that should have been paid to the US Treasury, in a shock to the Irish Prime Minister, Michael Martin, who was desperate to visit the White House on St. Patrick Day.
The US president respected the misconduct for Martin, repeatedly praised and praised him, while several broadcasts against the European Union also launched.
He repeatedly took the goal of Ireland’s historic low tax policies, which helped us lure multinationals, including Fazer, Boston Science and Eli Lily.
Big Pharma now operates annual exports worth 72 72bn (£ 60bn) in Ireland, in which Ireland pay taxes on drugs used in the United States.
“Irish are smart, yes, smart people,” Trump said. “You took our pharmaceutical companies and other companies … This beautiful island of 5 million people has arrested the entire American pharmaceutical industry.”
The US president told reporters at the Oval Office that he did not want to punish Irish too much, as it could ply a risk of helping US Irish votes, but said he was determined to “withdraw” his country’s “wealth” by predicting an easy war with the European Union.
“I think Irish love Trump,” he said. “We won Irish with a great amount of money [their] The vote I stopped it very well until I do something very fooling, like your company drains, all its companies your amazing place. May be [then] I will lose the Irish vote.
Trump also said that the former president “lost large sections of the US economy” and reiterated the claim to Europe that the European Union was formed to take advantage of the United States.
Referring to the EU’s successful EU’s successful case against Apple, forcing Ireland to pay B 13bn (£ 11bn) in back tax, he said: “Apple has been treated very badly … it’s unfair.”
In a moment of the moments, Martin pointed out that Ireland had fought the European Court of Justice against the European Union case. The move was created by the country’s desire to maintain US -tech firms such as Intel, Microsoft and Google, which have placed the headquarters of the European Union around Dublin and its surrounding European Union.
He also said that Irish companies, Ryan and Ericap, who are leasing the world’s largest aircraft, buys more US -made Boeing aircraft.
Nodding, Trump said: “I don’t blame you. I am accusing the European Union. The European Union has followed our companies.
“We have a problem with the European Union. They do not take our farm products. They do not take our cars. We take millions of cars, BMWs and Mercedes Benz and Vox wagons and everything. We take millions of cars.
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Referring to the former German Chancellor, Trump added: “I told Angela Merkel at that time, I said:” How many cheeses do we have in the middle of Munich, Munich? ” [She replied:] ‘Why, no one’ … no, I’m not happy with the European Union. “
He said he wanted to “not hurt Ireland” but only wanted what was fair.
“I want to see that the United States has not been so stupid for so many years, not just with Ireland, with everyone,” he said.
After an hour -long conversation for the advantage of the press, Trump and Martin lasted for only 10 minutes, which emphasized on meetings in front of the media.
After Washington introduced 25 % of the revenue on global imports of steel and aluminum, the European Union revealed Trump’s comments when unveiling US imports up to $ 26 billion in “response” plans.
A European Union official said there was no use to talk to the United States at this stage, saying it would be equivalent to discussing the fishermen.
“It is not too fruitful to start talking about removal of prices, the official said.” “You put a smelly fish on the table, and then you start talking to remove this smelly fish, and then you say: ‘Wow, we have a great result: there is no smelly fish on the table.’ This is not a very productive conversation.
“What we are looking for in negotiations is a fruitful debate that is the largest trade and investment relationship in the world about creating value, which is a translatable relationship.”
