Donald Trump explodes moments before EU trade deal agreed - 'very unfair!'

Donald Trump furiously complained about the EU's "very unfair" trade relationship with the US before announcing that both have finally struck a trade deal. The bombastic US leader was meeting with EU Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen at his Turnberry golf course in South Ayrshire, Scotland, for unscheduled talks that some have said are upstaging his meeting with Sir Keir Starmer on Monday.

Having enjoyed a day playing golf on his own course, President Trump then appeared before reporters with Ms von der Leyen to talk about a trade deal between the world's two biggest trading blocs. He told reporters that the European Union and US would enter a "very powerful" trade deal that would lower barriers to US exports and allow for greater European investment into the US.

It had earlier looked like the talks would not get off to the best start when the US Commander-in-Chief said he was "not in a good mood". He also described his country's relationship with the EU as unfair. He said: "'It's been a very one-sided transaction - very unfair to the United States."

But then in typical Trumpesque parlance, the president said it was "a very big deal. It's the biggest of all the deals", adding it was "the biggest deal ever made".

Ms von der Leyen said the US and EU combined have the world's largest trade volume, encompassing hundreds of millions of people and trillions of dollars.

She said: "Basically the European market is open. It's 450 million people, so it's a good deal. It's a huge deal. Was tough negotiations. I knew it at the beginning, and it was indeed very tough, but we came to a good conclusion from both sides."

For months, the Trump administration has threatened most of the world with large tariffs in hopes of shrinking major US trade deficits with many key trading partners. More recently, he's hinted that any deal with the EU would have to "buy down" the currently scheduled tariff rate of 30%.

But now it looks like a deal could head off the upcoming tariffs which Brussels had threatened to respond to in kind.

The Mail Online reports Donald Trump said European Union countries would purchase $750 billion (£558 billion) of energy from the US, and provide an additional $600 billion (£446 billion) in US investments.

Mr Trump said: "All of the (EU) countries will be opened up to trade with the United States at zero tariff, and they're agreeing to purchase a vast amount of military equipment, we don't know what that number is."

Joining von der Leyen were Maros Sefcovic, the EU's chief trade negotiator; Björn Seibert, the head of von der Leyen's Cabinet; Sabine Weyand, the commission's directorate-general for trade, and Tomas Baert, head of the trade and agriculture at the EU's delegation to the US.