Saying EU, U.S. are trade foes is 'fake news', says EU's Tusk in swipe at Trump

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Saying EU, U.S. are trade foes is 'fake news', says EU's Tusk in swipe at Trump

 

European Council President Donald Tusk arrives for the second day of a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium, July 12, 2018. Tatyana Zenkovich/Pool via REUTERS

 

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union and the United States are best friends, and saying the two are foes was "fake news", European Council President Donald Tusk said on Sunday, after U.S. President Donald Trump had called the EU a foe on trade matters.

 

"America and the EU are best friends. Whoever says we are foes is spreading fake news," Tusk, a former Polish prime minister, wrote on Twitter.

 

Trump branded the EU as a "foe" of the United States for "what they do to us in trade," adding "that doesn't mean they are bad," in an interview aired on Sunday by CBS's Face the Nation news programme.

 

(Reporting by Robert-Jan Bartunek; Editing by Gareth Jones)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-07-16

[wombat]

thats a new twist for the EU ....read something they don't like so can now call it fake news...pmsl, they are learning from the Trump. Kudos Donald, Kudos.

[bristolboy]

29 minutes ago, wombat said:

thats a new twist for the EU ....read something they don't like so can now call it fake news...pmsl, they are learning from the Trump. Kudos Donald, Kudos.

They may not like it but that's not the reason Tusk is calling it fake news. It's fake because Trump's statement is false. Whereas whatever info the media provides that Trump doesn't like he calls fake. Even stuff that he has been recorded saying on video.

Huge difference.

[Tug]

I like it every time trump lies just call him out straight up all news networks world leaders etc etc when trump lies just get it out there,there he goes lying again