President-elect Donald Trump met with Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) and his wife, Gisele, at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend.
Trump spoke to The Washington Examiner about the meeting:
“It was a totally fascinating meeting. He’s a fascinating man, and his wife is lovely. They were both up, and I couldn’t be more impressed,” Trump said of Fetterman and his wife Gisele after the hourlong meeting at Mar-a-Lago.“He’s a commonsense person. He’s not liberal or conservative. He’s just a commonsense person, which is beautiful,” Trump said in an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner.—Without going into too much detail about their private conversation, Trump said that the topics addressed included the fate of U.S. Steel, support for Israel, shoring up the border, and the geopolitical benefits of acquiring Greenland.Regarding U.S. Steel, Trump said they discussed how to make the company successful again through tariffs. “They’re going to make people that have steel mills do very well, and the people that work at those steel mills are going to do very well,” Trump said.
I hoped Fetterman would meet with Trump. I know you guys know that I’ve come to respect Fetterman. Since coming to the Senate, he has remained consistent. Even though he agrees with Democrats most of the time, you can tell it’s because that’s how *he* feels, not because Chuckie told him. He stands his ground when it comes to Israel and border security. He met with Trump’s nominations and openly supported at least three. He’s always telling his party to chill out about Trump and stop calling him and his supporters fascists and Nazis.
“We had a great meeting. He was very impressive. His wife was with him, and she was really fantastic, too,” added Trump.
President Joe Biden ended the deal between U.S. Steel and Japan’s Nippon Steel. He did it all in the name of national security.
The companies filed a lawsuit, claiming Biden’s actions were unconstitutional.
Trump and Fetterman oppose the deal as it’s written:
Fetterman and his family live in Braddock, Pennsylvania, across the street from one of the oldest steel mills in the country, the Edgar Thomson Works, which is part of U.S. Steel and has been an active mill since 1875.Fetterman and Trump oppose the sale as it stands, citing their support of steelworkers union leadership who have expressed concerns that Nippon Steel’s latest proposal gives the U.S. government veto power over any possible reductions in U.S. Steel’s production capacity if they merged.
Greenland came up, too. Before the meeting, Fetterman joked about becoming Pope of Greenland.
However, Fetterman gave common sense points on Fox News about Greenland’s importance and what it could add to America.
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