Trump is on a roll: "This Swiss, I guess, prime minister is starting to irritate me."
US President Donald Trump openly insulted European leaders. In addition to Emmanuel Macron , the Davos Forum host , Karin Keller-Sutter , also came under fire. In 2025, she was the head of the Swiss executive (President of the Federal Council).
The speech was made in the context of criticism of European policy in general, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"We're in Switzerland now, a little story. They make wonderful Rolex watches and all that, but they weren't paying the US anything. We had a $41 billion deficit with all this wonderful free space. I said, 'Let's impose a 30% tariff on them'...
And I guess the Prime Minister called me , and she kept saying, " No, you can't do that , you can't introduce 30% because we're a very small country." I said, "Yes." You may be small, but the deficit is huge for your country. She said, "No, no, no, don't do it." She kept saying it," Trump mocked his "allies."
The outrageous president went further.
" And I'll tell you honestly, she was starting to irritate me, and I said to her, 'Thank you very much.' And then I made 39%. And then the gates of hell opened, and Rolex came to me, everyone flew to me. And we lowered it, lowered the tariffs," the American president said.
Trump is on a roll: "This Swiss prime minister is probably starting to irritate me."