Trump Reacts To Macron Saying France Will Recognize A Palestinian State

While speaking to reporters, President Trump was asked about French President Emmanuel Macron stating that France will recognize a Palestinian state.

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00:00I'm very sanctioned for you.

00:01Sooner than 50 days.

00:02Maybe, yeah.

00:02Do you think it was counterproductive?

00:04What's the biggest counterproductive?

00:05Who are you with?

00:07Who are you with?

00:08For snooze.

00:09Oh, good.

00:10Counterproductive for France to say that they would recognize the Palestinian state.

00:14Macron said that yesterday.

00:16Look, he's a different kind of a guy.

00:20He's okay.

00:21He's a team player, pretty much.

00:23But here's the good news.

00:24What he says doesn't matter.

00:28It's not going to change it.

00:29Are you going to be with President Trump?

00:32Well, he made a statement.

00:33France, Macron.

00:36His statement doesn't carry any weight.

00:38He's a very good guy.

00:40I like him.

00:40But that statement doesn't carry weight.

00:42So how hard did he do a trade deal with the EU?

00:46I would say that we have a 50-50 chance, maybe less than that,

00:52but a 50-50 chance of making a deal with the EU.

00:56And it'll be a deal where they have to buy down their tariffs.

00:59Because they're right now at 30 percent.

01:01And they'll have to buy them down, maybe.

01:03Or they could leave them the way they are.

01:05But they want to make a deal very badly.

01:07I would have said we have a 25 percent chance with Japan.

01:11And they kept coming back, and we made a deal.

01:13And the deal is — don't forget, Japan is putting up $550 billion.

01:17That's a lot of money.

01:19And also paying tariffs.

01:22The biggest part of the Japan deal — and maybe we get this with the EU,

01:26maybe we don't — is that we have the right to go in and trade.

01:29We have the right — they've totally opened Japan to the — just to the U.S.

01:33That's, to me, the biggest part of the deal.

01:35Well,