U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday blasted the European Union for imposing what he called an \u201cunfair\u201d $3.47 billion antitrust fine on Google, warning that retaliatory tariffs were on the table unless the decision was reversed. The remarks came a day after Trump hosted Google CEO Sundar Pichai and co-founder Sergey Brin, along with other tech leaders, at a White House dinner. \u201cEurope today \u2018hit\u2019 another great American company, Google, with a $3.5 billion dollar fine, effectively taking money that would otherwise go to American investments and jobs,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social. \u201cVery unfair, and the American taxpayer will not stand for it!\u201d Trump linked the ruling to previous EU actions against U.S. tech giants, including a 2016 decision ordering Apple to repay Ireland \u20ac13 billion in back taxes. \u201cThey should get their money back!\u201d he said, vowing that failure to do so would trigger retaliatory tariffs designed to \u201cnullify the unfair penalties.\u201d At Thursday\u2019s White House dinner, Trump had praised Pichai and Brin following a U.S. court ruling earlier in the week that rejected calls for Google to divest its Chrome browser in a separate antitrust case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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