Irish PM Micheál Martin arrives for White House meeting

US President Donald Trump has raised a “massive” trade imbalance with Ireland and accused the European Union of “very badly” treatment of the US.

He commented during a bilateral meeting with TaCich (Irish Prime Minister) Martin as part of the traditional St. Patrick Day of Irish government.

Earlier on Wednesday, the European Union announced that it would impose a counter tariff of US goods on € 26BN ($ 28BN) from next month.

Talking to reporters at the Oval office, Trump said: “There is a large -scale deficit that we have with Ireland … we even want to exclude as well as out, and we will work together.”

The European Union’s move is in vengeance of President Trump’s 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum imports in the US, which came into effect overnight.

Trump said that it caused “sick will”.

“The European Union has been very difficult, and it is also our turn. We also get a turn on it,” he said.

He said, “I am not knocking it, they are doing what they are doing for the European Union, but it creates a sick will and you know that we are going to tariff mutual tariffs” he said.

Martin has told President Trump that foreign investment is a two-way road, saying that Ireland is “now investing a lot in the US”.

Trump also said that he was unaware that some political parties were boycotting the St. Patrick’s Day celebrations at the White House.

Sin fen, Social Democratic & Labor Party (SDLP) And Coalition Everyone refused to participate in Washington on the stance of the Trump administration on Gaza.

When asked about the boycott at the oval office, the US President replied: “I have not heard this, I have not really heard it”.

Earlier, Martin participated in a breakfast organized by Vice President JD Vance.

Speaking at breakfast, he said that we have been “a firm friend of Ireland for centuries”.

He said that the peace process was “a signature achievement of the US foreign policy”, saying that Ireland “is ready to work to work to end the struggle and to work in Ukraine or in the Middle East or wherever it is to work to secure peace”.

Martin welcomed “progressively created” as a result of securing peace as a result of the “incredible focus and effort” of the Trump administration.

Vance described the US-Ayland relationship as “one of the great coalition and great friendship among the nations”.

He said that Ireland “incredibly community … is a country with beautiful landscape and lots of interesting technological development.

He said, “One of the more strong areas for us to work with our Irish friends in the coming years is going to be technology and especially artificial intelligence,” he said.

TaCich is the first European Union leader to return to the oval office President’s stir with Ukraine President Volodimier Zelancesi,

A wide range of discussions is expected to cover a wide range of discussions including sharing global challenges, including deep relations between the US and Ireland, in Ukraine and the position in the Middle East, as well as the economic relations between the two countries, as well as the economic relations between the two countries.

Bilateral meeting is amid worrying concern over the future of Ireland’s economy, which is very much dependent on American multinational companies.

Trump see this as a business imbalance and is eager to woo those companies back to the US.

However, Martin said that he would use his visit to the Oval office to highlight “rapidly two-way” trade and investment relations.

“Ireland is the sixth largest source of foreign direct investment in the US, which supports hundreds and thousands of jobs across the US,” he said.

“This adequate investment underlines the commitment of Irish enterprises in the US market and reflects a deep economic dependence between the two countries.”

The meeting is an opportunity for TOCich to update Trump on the situation in Northern Ireland, identifying the huge contribution made by the US to achieve peace.

First minister Mitchell O’Neel is not going to the White House because he is Boycott St. Patrick’s Day celebration Due to Trump’s stance on Gaza.

However, Deputy Minister Emma Little-Pengli will be at the reception of the White House on Wednesday and is likely to meet Trump.

Two executive ministers First led a delegation to Northern Carolina a week With representatives of Queen’s University Belfast, Investment Ni, Catalyst and Software Ni.

Nee Chamber CEO Suzanne Willy said the journey was part of a long -term process and would invite a trade mission in Northern Ireland from Northern Carolina.

However, compared to the previous year, compared to this year, there has been more geopolitical uncertainty this year, including the onset of some tariffs by President Trump.

He said that while there was uncertainty around the world right now, “Business really wants to create relationships and trade with each other and continue looking for further investment in some of our innovative companies”.

Speaking to BBC News NI before the meeting between Trump and Martin, the Democrat member of the House of Representative Brandon Boyle said that “what is doing about the Trump administration tariff, no one makes no economic understanding, and it is no meaning in the context of our national security”.

Boyle said that putting tariffs on Canada shows that any country is “completely safe from such madness”, including Ireland.

He said Martin said “President Trump should remind that Ireland, despite its small size, is one of the largest investors in the United States and one of the largest job creators in the United States”.

“On one side, (Trump) likes to say, you know, we are the best, he is the best, he is the greatest. Everything is a fantastic.

“But then in the next breath, he says, we are sucking, we are losing, we are being taken advantage of by every other country.”

Boyle said that Ireland “punches well above its weight” in terms of investment in the United States, and reminding Trump, “will go a long way”.