LIVE: President Trump Meets UK's Keir Starmer at Turnberry Golf Course After US-EU Trade deal | N18G

Описание: LIVE: President Trump Meets UK's Keir Starmer at Turnberry Golf Course After US-EU Trade deal | CNBC TV18
TURNBERRY, SCOTLAND - U.S President Donald Trump holds bilateral meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Trump Turnberry golf course. Visiting U.S. President Donald Trump meets and holds a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, confirmed there would be US tariffs on goods from Europe of 15% across the board. Washington had earlier threatened a tariff rate of 30%. The agreement also includes promises of billions of dollars worth of investment and energy purchases from Brussels.
“This is the biggest deal, people don’t realize,” President Trump says of a possible E.U. deal, acknowledging how big the Transatlantic relationship remains. By many measures, it is the world’s biggest trading relationship.
President Trump is holding talks in Scotland with Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. European Union officials have said they believe that a deal with the United States could be reached in time to avoid the 30 percent tariffs on European imports that Mr. Trump has threatened to impose on Aug. 1. At the start of their meeting, Mr. Trump again put the odds of reaching a deal at 50/50.
President Trump revisited a sore subject in his remarks: windmills in Scotland. The president has been opposed to wind energy since long before he ran for office, because he said it upset members at his golf club.
President Trump was asked about starvation in Gaza. He says the U.S. has contributed tens of millions to help starving children in Gaza, but suggests the aid is being stolen and he hasn’t received a thank you. “People are stealing the food, they’re stealing the money, they’re stealing the money for the food, they’re stealing weapons, they’re stealing everything. It’s a mess. That whole place is a mess.”

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