Donald Trump had an animated discussion with a financial news network about his administration’s trade policies. During the interview, he made a remarkable claim regarding an agreement with the European Union. According to the president, the E.U. had offered the United States a generous “gift” of $600 billion.
According to MSNBC, Trump said, “That’s a gift. That’s not like, you know, a loan, by the way. That’s not a loan that, ‘Oh, gee, three years comes up. We have to pay it back.’ There’s nothing to pay back. They gave us $600 billion that we can invest in anything we want.” This is a weird thing to claim, and so when asked for more details, he said, “There are no details. The details are $600 billion to invest in anything I want. Anything. I can do anything I want.”
