Overview
- Speaking from Mar-a-Lago, Trump described telling Emmanuel Macron to increase medicine prices and to agree "100%" to his demand.
- He said he threatened to impose tariffs on everything France sells to the United States if France declined.
- The president had delivered the same anecdote at a rally days earlier, repeating the purported exchange and quotes.
- Trump has long argued that higher pharmaceutical prices in Europe would enable lower costs for Americans.
- Reporting situates the claim alongside a recent U.S.–EU customs arrangement that envisions roughly 15% taxes on most European exports to the U.S.