U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that the European Union is worse than China, hours after Washington and Beijing agreed to slash respective punitive tariffs and de-escalate their trade war.

“European Union is in many ways nastier than China, okay?” Trump said, as he lashed the bloc. “Oh, they’ll come down a lot. You watch. We have all the cards. They treat us very unfairly.”

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      And anti corruption laws. Qatar can just give him a nice plane and get anything they want in return. The EU has laws against doing stuff like that.

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          Goes without saying. The first Trump administration shows that as long as Congress doesn’t impeach and convict you, none of the laws meant to rein in the executive mean anything.

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            dude committed treason on live television and it wasn’t enough to engage the part of the constitution that says the only punishment for that is hanging