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President Donald Trump again went after Ireland for "taking advantage" of the U.S. economically by bringing up its pharmaceutical industry.

"I have great respect for Ireland for what they did and they should have done just what they did. But the United States shouldn't have let it happen. We had stupid leaders. We had leaders that didn't have a clue or let's say they were businesspeople, but they didn't have a clue what was happening," he said.

The president said he would have issued a 200% tariff on Ireland.

During a photo spray with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin, President Donald Trump brought up tariffs and slammed Ireland for taking American pharmaceutical jobs.

"You took our pharmaceutical companies and other companies," he told the prime minister. "But, you know, through taxation and proper taxation, they made it very, very good for companies to move over there, and we had presidents and people that were involved in this that had no idea what they were doing."

Trump continued to push his tariffs against the European Union.

President Donald Trump was asked to discuss the massive layoffs at the Department of Education. He said he felt "very badly" but quickly claimed, without evidence, that many of its employees weren't going to work or doing a good job.

"Now, Department of Education, maybe more so than any other place, has a lot of people that can be cut," he said.

He praised Education Secretary Linda McMahon as doing a "very good job."

"We have a dream, the dream is we're going to move the Department of Education, we're going to move education into the states," he said.

A majority of Americans -- 56% -- disapprove of President Donald Trump's handling of the economy, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. Forty-four percent of U.S. adults approved of his job on the issue so far.

On tariffs specifically, 61% of respondents expressed disapproval, while just 39% approved.

As was the case during much of the 2024 election cycle, economic concerns are the top issue for most Americans. Forty-two percent of respondents chose it as their No. 1 issue, far more than those who said their top concern was the state of democracy, the federal government, immigration, foreign policy and health care.

The survey was conducted last week, as Trump was going back-and-forth over tariffs on Canada and Mexico, causing the market to suffer one of its worst weeks in recent months.