mo4ch:>Trump brandishes tariff baton at ‘illegal OPEC cartel’ & vows ‘whatever it takes’ (but no US oil cuts!) | Mo4ch News

Calling on Russia and Saudi Arabia to urgently resolve the global oil output glut crisis, President Donald Trump said he will do whatever it takes – apparently except for cutting US own oil production – to protect American jobs.“I will do whatever it takes to protect US oil jobs,” Trump told reporters at a daily Covid-19 task force press briefing. “We are the number one producer in the world right now… I am a big believer in our great energy business, and we are going to take care of our energy business.”If I have to level tariffs on all imported oil coming into this country, I will.“I've been against OPEC all my life, because what is it? It’s an illegal, you could call it a cartel, you could call it a monopoly, but it broke down very violently, so I don’t care about OPEC, I couldn’t care less about OPEC. They are destroying themselves,” the US president said.Washington was not part of any recent oil cut agreement, and while calling on Russia and Saudi Arabia to come to terms, Tru…