President Trump Labels Russia, China and Europe as 'Foes'

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U.S. President Donald Trump is branding Russia, China and the European Union as "foes" of the United States, but specifically is singling out long-time allies in Europe for taking advantage of the United States on trade deals.

"I think we have a lot of foes," the U.S. leader told CBS News in an interview broadcast Sunday that was taped the day before at his Turnberry golf course in Scotland.


U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he walks on the course of his golf resort, in Turnberry, Scotland, July 14, 2018.
"I think the European Union is a foe, what they do to us in trade," he said. "Now, you wouldn't think of the European Union, but they're a foe. Russia is foe in certain respects. China is a foe economically, certainly they are a foe. But that doesn't mean they are bad. It doesn't mean anything. It means that they are competitive."

"I respect the leaders of those countries," Trump said, referring to the European Union. "But, in a trade sense, they've really taken advantage of us and many of those countries are in NATO and they weren't paying their bills" to meet the NATO goal of each of the 29 member states of the Western military alliance spending two percent of the size of their national economies on defense.