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Trump blasts Ireland on trade during traditional visit

US President Donald Trump gestures alongside Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin (R) and his wife Mary O'Shea (L) during a St. Patrick's Day Reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 12, 2025. [AFP]

It was perhaps not the welcome Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin had hoped for on an annual US trip to mark Saint Patrick's Day -- a dressing down from Donald Trump on trade and tariffs.

"We do have a massive deficit with Ireland," the US president said in answer to the very first question he faced with Martin in the Oval Office, before going on to lambast the European Union in general.

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