Trump Fires Back at The Wall Street Journal With Rupert Murdoch Right Next to Him: ‘I’m Gonna Have to Talk to Him About That’

President Donald Trump fired back at The Wall Street Journal over an editorial denouncing his impending implementation of tariffs on Canada and Mexico as “the dumbest trade war in history” with the paper’s owner, Rupert Murdoch, in the Oval Office next to him on Monday.

Trump addressed the Journal‘s criticism after a reporter said, “The deal with Mexico this morning, was that partially related to the market reaction and a criticism from Mr. Murdoch’s newspaper? He called it the dumbest trade war on the editorial page on Saturday. ”

“I’m gonna have to talk to him about that,” quipped Trump to laughs. I’ve been right over The Wall Street Journal many times, I will tell you that. I don’t agree with him on some things. No, it’s-, not only is it not dumb, you’re going to see, you’re going to see. Every single one of those countries is dying to make a deal.”

He continued:

You know why? Because they’re ripping us off really badly. And the United States is tired of being ripped-, just being ripped off. And that’s why we have $36 trillion in debt. We have it for a reason, because we make bad deals with everybody, and we don’t allow that anymore. So The Wall Street Journal is wrong because very simply, every single country that you’re writing about right now is dying to make a deal because the deals they have right now are so good, and so good for them, and so profitable for them. You didn’t know that Canada didn’t allow our banks. You didn’t know all of these different things. And I think in the end, you’re going to see that either very, very substantial tariffs are going to be paid by them or they’re going to make some kind of a deal.

Watch above via CNN.