COMMENT: Millions of German cars sold in the US? That’s ‘bad, very bad’

“Look at the millions of cars [German companies] sell in the US. Terrible. We’ll stop it.”

The words of President Donald Trump in a closed doors meeting with EU officials in Brussels, as reported by Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine.

One can now assert – with some confidence – that we are through the looking glass, down the rabbit hole and sipping tea with a guy in a hat. Quite how to begin analysing the 45^th President’s latest salvo – aimed not at Germany but at German trade (“The Germans are bad, very bad”) – is bewildering.