Trump Claims Europe Has ‘Raped and Pillaged’ the United States

Michael LucianoMar 19th, 2025, 8:00 pm

President Donald Trump had harsh words for the European Union, alleging the continental alliance has “raped and pillaged” the U.S.

During the second part of an interview that aired on Fox News on Wednesday, Laura Ingraham asked about the possibility of the economy entering a recession.

“Will we see a recession in 2025?” she asked. “Are you ruling it out?”

“We’re gonna have the strongest economic country in the history of the world, of the planet,” he replied. “We are taking in so much money. Now, some people are unhappy because, you know, it has to come from somewhere. Some of it’s gonna come from Europe because not everybody’s gonna be doing as much business in Europe and other places.”

Trump went on to call himself “a nationalist” who is “proud of it” before vastly overstating the amount of aid former President Joe Biden gave to Ukraine. Ingraham then pivoted to interest rates.

“How do interest rates end up going down when we’re servicing our debt to the tune of about $1.2 trillion a year and they’re still deficit spending in Congress?” she asked. “How do we do that?”

“We have to pay off our debt,” Trump responded. “We have to start paying it off. We’re very under-leveraged when you look at the asset value of this country. But we’re over-leveraged in terms of cash flow. We’re gonna have big cash flow. We’re gonna take in. For years, we allowed our country to be raped and pillaged. Raped and pillaged. Terrible expressions. And that’s what happened. Much of it was done by our friends. Look at the European Union. We can’t sell cars to them, but they sell millions of cars to us. They don’t take our agricultural product, but we take theirs. The days are changing. We’re not gonna let this happen.”

Watch above via Fox News.