Germany’s trade surplus is “neither good nor evil,” a government spokesman insisted Friday, referring to local reports that President Trump blasted Berlin for its trade imbalance with the US.

“A trade surplus is neither good nor evil,” spokesman Georg Streiter told a news conference. “It is the result of the interplay of supply and demand on global markets.”

During a meeting Thursday with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels, Trump said that Germany was “very bad” on trade and vowed to do something about it.

“See the millions of cars they are selling in the US? Terrible,” Trump said, Germany’s Der Spiegel reported. “We will stop this.”

Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk both showed support for Germany during the sitdown with Trump, according to CNBC.

On Friday, Juncker dismissed the claims, saying that the German media reports were exaggerated.

“He did not say that the Germans were behaving badly,” Juncker told reporters in Sicily ahead of G-7 talks. “He was not aggressive at all and anyway we have taken the defense of the Germans.

“I was making clear that the US cannot compare their trade situation with individual member states of the European Union,” he continued. “They have to compare their performances with the global performances of the European Union and I made it clear that the commission is charged with trade issues and not the member states.”

Trump has assailed Germany in the past over its trade surplus, and promised to impose a 35 percent tax on German auto imports.

Although most German-company cars are manufactured outside the US, some BMW SUVs are built in South Carolina, Mercedes has a plant in Alabama, and many VW Passats are built in Tennessee.