’They are kissing my ass’: Trump says countries are pleading to negotiate tariffs – video

Donald Trump bragged about countries ’kissing my ass’ to negotiate tariffs during a dinner for Republicans on Tuesday. The US president said: 'We're going to do much better than that this time, because this time I'm doing what I want to do with respect to the tariffs.' He added that Congress should not get involved in the negotiations because 'they don't negotiate like I negotiate'

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