President Donald Trump threatened to cut off trade with Mexico and Canada at an Oval Office media availability on Friday. “We lose with Mexico $ 195 billion a year,” Trump said. “If I don’t trade with Mexico, they have nothing that we have to have. I mean, hot tamales, tomatoes, a couple of things.” “But basically, they have nothing that we need,” Trump continued. “We have oil. We have everything. I don’t want to do that because we get along very well with the President. We like the President, respect her a lot. But if we didn’t want to trade with Mexico, if we didn’t want to trade with Canada, we’d save from $ 60 to $ 90 billion a year just by not trading with Canada.”
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