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Originally Posted by MargieRose
Your comment is misleading in that it leaves the reader thinking that Pres. Trump called the E.U. America's biggest foe...period. It is pretty close to how a lot of fake news is reported, IMO.
The interviewer (Jeff Glor, CBS News Anchor) asked Pres. Trump a TWO-PART question. He set (set up??) the trade mindset: "Who is your biggest competitor, your biggest foe globally right now?"
Read the comment in the context of the whole interview here - Transcript:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi..._on_trade.html
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Then why didn't he call the European Union a foe and not a competitor?
The guy frequently says stuff that sends you all spinning to explain what he meant.