US to slap 25% tariffs on EU which UK hopes to dodge in Brexit win | Politics | News [Video]

Donald Trump has announced that he will slap 25% tariffs on imports from the European Union.

The US President declared that the bloc was formed to “screw” America and had “done a good job of it”.

He said: “We have made a decision, we’ll be announcing it very soon. It will be 25% generally speaking and that will be on cars and all other things.

“The EU is a different kind of case than Canada, they’ve really taken advantage of us in a different way.

“They don’t accept our cars, they don’t accept essentially our farm products, they use all sorts of reasons why not, and we accept everything from them.

“We have about a 300 billion dollar deficit with the EU. I love the countries of Europe, I guess I’m from there at some point a long time ago.

“But the EU was formed in order to screw the US that’s the purpose …