President Donald Trump is participating in the Shamrock Bowl presentation with Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin, beginning at 5:20 p.m. in the East Room of the White House
The event was preceded by a tense meeting in which the two leaders subtly clashed over immigration.
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“I love Europe,” Trump said. “I’ve spent a lot of time in Europe. It’s a different place. Bad — bad things have happened to Europe, very bad things, and you better do something about immigration.”
Moments later, Martin counteracted Trump’s statement, saying that Ireland’s “population is growing, but in a very positive way, our economy is going well because we’re attracting a lot of people from Europe and beyond into work legally and validly in our country.”
