Trump comes up against the policy of reporting on the prices, calls him a “crazy”

President Donald Trump faced a journalist on Thursday on a newly signed rate, telling him that he had spent his first mandate “fighting madmen like you”. The intense exchange follows a signing ceremony of the White House for a series of executive actions aimed at extending the reciprocal prices and strengthening American trade policy.

While speaking with journalists in the White House after the signing, a journalist confronted Trump on the reasons why he emphasizes the rates more in his second mandate.

“You assess your decision to do so, your authority to do so according to a 1977 law. It has never been invoked before,” said the journalist. “Why did you not invoke this law during your first mandate?

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President Donald Trump pierced in a journalist on a question on the prices on Thursday, telling him that he had to spend his first mandate “fight crazy people”. (Photo of Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)

Without missing a beat, the president retaliated: “Yes, because during my first mandate, I fought crazy like you who tried to do things in an incorrect and inappropriate way to a duly elected president.”

“And we made certain prices in the first mandate,” he continued. “If you look at China, China, we have taken hundreds of billions of dollars from China.”

He also said that the COVVI-19 pandemic had also played a factor in its decision not to highlight the prices as much during its first mandate.

“When Covid came, the last thing I was going to do is to say that France and Italy and Spain and a few other countries that we are going to hit you with prices,” he said. “We had to fight the situation coded when it came.”

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US President Donald Trump has a “foreign trade bar” document when he pronounces remarks on the prices in the Garden Rose of the White House in Washington, DC, United States, April 2, 2025. (Photo Reuters / Carlos Barria / File)

“But if you look at my first mandate,” he continued, “we have taken hundreds of billions of dollars in prices, but you didn’t cover it very well.”

A declaration of the White House said that Trump’s executive measures taken on Thursday “reflect the president’s continuous efforts to protect the United States against foreign threats to national security and the economy of the United States by obtaining fair, balanced and reciprocal trade relations for the benefit of American workers, farmers and manufacturers and to strengthen the industrial defense database.”

This occurs shortly after Trump and the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced on Sunday a trade agreement between the United States and the EU.

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President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen (L) after their meeting in Turnberry, in the southwest of Scotland on July 27, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Images)

“We agree that the rate directly for cars and that everything else will be a right access rate of 15%,” said Trump.

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“So, we have a price of 15%. We have the opening of all European countries, which I think I could say being essentially closed. I mean, you do not take exactly our orders. You do not take exactly our agriculture,” he added, addressing Von der Leyen.

Von der Leyen said Europe will also buy $ 150 billion in American energy as part of the agreement, in addition to making $ 600 billion in other investments in the United States

Anders Hagstrom and Stephen Sorace of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.