Nobody’s told me that. Nobody would tell me that,” he said, according to The Guardian.
Moments later, however, Johnson ― who was seated with Trump ― contradicted the president’s claim.
“Just to register a faint sheeplike note of our view on the trade war: we’re in favor of trade peace on the whole, and dialing it down if we can,” Johnson said. “We think that, on the whole, the U.K. has profited massively in the last 200 years from free trade, and that’s what we want to see … we don’t like tariffs on the whole.”
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@stevenportnoy
UK prime minister Boris Johnson tells Trump he's not a fan of the trade war with China:
"Our view on the trade war -- we're in favor of trade peace on the whole, dialing it down."
(Moments earlier, asked if any allies expressed regret, Trump said, "Nobody would tell me that.")
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2:31 AM - Aug 25, 2019
Moments later, however, Johnson ― who was seated with Trump ― contradicted the president’s claim.
“Just to register a faint sheeplike note of our view on the trade war: we’re in favor of trade peace on the whole, and dialing it down if we can,” Johnson said. “We think that, on the whole, the U.K. has profited massively in the last 200 years from free trade, and that’s what we want to see … we don’t like tariffs on the whole.”
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@stevenportnoy
UK prime minister Boris Johnson tells Trump he's not a fan of the trade war with China:
"Our view on the trade war -- we're in favor of trade peace on the whole, dialing it down."
(Moments earlier, asked if any allies expressed regret, Trump said, "Nobody would tell me that.")
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2:31 AM - Aug 25, 2019
