Donald Trump at G7: 'US is not a piggy bank to be robbed'
by Anne Perkins in La Malbaie from on (#3RZCW)
US president appears to snub Theresa May and called for tariff-free trade with members
In an unscheduled press conference hours before the G7 summit was due to end, Donald Trump accused the rest of the world of treating the US like a piggy bank to be robbed, appeared to snub Theresa May and called for tariff-free trade with the G7 countries.
In a bravado performance, he also described Russia's annexation of Crimea as "something that happened a while ago", warned in the bluntest of terms against economic retaliation for the US's introduction of tariffs, and described the way the EU treated the US as brutal.
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