RTE has today reported that US President Donald Trump has called out Ireland as a country from which he would like to see jobs "brought back" to America. 
  
According to the report, Mr Trump was asked why three executives - including the CEOs of Merck and Intel, which both have significant operations here - had quit his American manufacturing council. All three had resigned following the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend and the US President's initial delay in specifically the neo-Nazis and white supremacists involved. 
  
At the press conference in Trump Tower, Donald Trump criticised the three executives and made a pointed reference to Ireland according to RTE.
  
"We want products made in the country," he said. "Now I have to tell you that some of the folks will leave, they’re leaving out of embarrassment because they make their products outside. I’ve been lecturing them, including the gentlemen you’re referring to, about you have to bring it back to this country (the United States)."

Trump added, "You can’t do it necessarily in Ireland and all of these other places, you have to bring this work back to this country, that’s what I want. I want manufacturing to be back into the United States so that American workers can benefit."

Source: www.businessworld.ie