Trump: America Will No Longer Be the ‘Piggy Bank that Everyone is Robbing’

Donald Trump concluded his trip to the Group of 7 (G7) economics conference in Canada with a combative, unscheduled statement in which he promised that the United States would no longer be the “piggy bank that everyone is robbing.”

Flanked by Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow and National Security Adviser John Bolton, Trump said the ultimate goal of U.S. trade policy was the elimination of tariffs and subsidies. But short of that, he also pledged the U.S. would raise its own trade barriers to combat unfair trade practices around the world. “We’re like the piggy bank that everybody’s robbing and that ends,” Trump said. Trump praised the G7 nations for what he described as their efforts to “take advantage” of weak U.S. leadership (Read more)