Trump Says Juncker Is a Gent But Vestager Hates the U.S.

(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump would rather have Mario Draghi at the Fed than Jerome Powell. And he thinks European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is “a fantastic gentleman.”

But there’s at least one person in Brussels he can’t stand.

“You have a woman in Europe, I won’t mention her name,” he said in an interview with Fox’s Maria Bartiromo. “She hates the United States, perhaps worse than any person I’ve ever met.”

That would be European Union competition chief Margrethe Vestager. And what has she done to upset the U.S. commander-in-chief?

“She’s suing all our companies,” Trump said, a reference to Vestager’s crusades against tech giants like Google and Apple Inc. “They make it very -- almost impossible to do two-way business.”

But Silicon Valley probably shouldn’t get too excited about the prospect of a presidential intervention.

“Look, we should be suing Google and Facebook and all that,” Trump said. “Perhaps we will.”

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