Trump defends tariffs, says US has been ‘the king of being screwed’ by trade imbalance

President Donald Trump defended his use of tariffs as a corrective to what he called years of trade imbalance, saying Tuesday that the United States had been "the king of being screwed by tariffs" but would no longer allow other nations to exploit it."We're the king of being screwed by tariffs," Trump said during a bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office. "I'm not talking about with Canada, I'm talking about with countries all over the world," Trump said, naming China and the 27-member countries of the European Union. "They took advantage of our country. T