Wirtschaftswoche reports that the comments, made to Macron and reported to the media via several EU and US diplomats, could spark a trade war between the US and the EU, with Germany’s car industry being a heavy source of income to the union.
Trump has been outspoken in his tirades against the car industry, first taking aim at domestic brands that import into the US from Mexico, then at European countries’ appetite for domestic car brands over US ones.
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