Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Monday that countries that don’t try to negotiate a trade deal with President Trump will “lose bigly.”
The outspoken, far-right congresswoman echoed a sentiment expressed last week by the president’s son Eric Trump, who advised countries not to wait to try to make a deal on tariffs.
The Trump administration has sent mixed signals on whether Trump's tariffs are the opening gambit of trade negotiation or whether they are "here to stay."
“I wouldn’t want to be the last country that tries to negotiate a trade deal with @realDonaldTrump,” Eric Trump wrote in a Thursday post, a day after his father announced sweeping global tariffs.
“The first to negotiate will win - the last will absolutely lose,” he added.
Greene, on Monday, reposted Eric Trump's statement.
“These were wise words of advice,” Greene wrote.
“Now there is a stampede forming,” she continued. “Don’t be last. You will lose bigly and won’t be needed.”
Administration officials have said more than 50 countries have tried to get in touch with the president in the wake of his tariff announcement last week.
President Trump on Monday said he was not considering pausing the tariffs, despite mounting economic concerns and three days of sliding stock market value.
Earlier in the day, he threatened to impose a 50 percent tariff on imports from China, a massive escalation of a potential trade war between the world’s two largest economies.
