While tariffs are sinking stock markets around the world (the opening of Asian stock markets was disastrous), Donald Trump is downplaying the situation, talking about a "necessary cure" and is attacking Europe again.

" Europe has made a fortune with us, they have treated us very very badly but they are coming to the table. They want to talk, but you don't talk if they don't pay us a lot of money on an annual basis ."

"I don't want to crash the markets on purpose, I want to solve the deficit that we have with China, the European Union and other nations , and they will have to do that," added the American president.

"This week," Trump said aboard Air Force One, "I've talked to a lot of Europeans, Asians, all over the world. They're dying to make a deal. But I told them we're not going to have a deficit with their countries. We're not going to do that because to me a deficit is a loss. We're going to have a surplus, or at worst, we're going to break even ."

What will happen to the markets? "I can't say, but our country is much stronger. Sometimes you have to take medicine to solve something ."

(Unioneonline/L)

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