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Trump singles out Europe as a trade foe

When CBS News asked President Trump to name America’s biggest foe, he talked about Russia and China. But only after citing the European Union, because of “what they do to us in trade.”

Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, shot back on Twitter: “America and the E.U. are best friends. Whoever says we are foes is spreading fake news.”

Mr. Trump’s remarks matched his provocative behavior at last week’s NATO conference. But some commentators think Europe will simply ignore the insults. The economist Michael Ivanovitch writes for CNBC that Europeans are flaunting their trading clout, and “Trump is wasting time trying to change the existing trans-Atlantic trading regime.”

Those tensions could grow today as Mr. Trump meets President Vladimir Putin of Russia in Finland. Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Katie Rogers of the NYT report fears that Mr. Trump “might offer concessions behind closed doors to a Russian president who is ready to exploit any hint of fissure within the Western alliance.”