Trump suggests EU is out of line with lawsuits against U.S. tech firms

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested the European Union was out of line bringing lawsuits against U.S. technology companies like Facebook and Alphabet Inc's Google, saying legal action against those firms should be the purview of the United States.

"She hates the United States perhaps worse than any person I've ever met," Trump said in an interview with Fox Business Network in an apparent reference to EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager. "What she does to our country. She's suing all our companies. We should be suing Google and Facebook, and all that, which perhaps we will," he said. "They're suing Apple for billions of dollars. They're suing everybody."

"They make it almost impossible to do two-way business," Trump said, reprising his frequent complaint that Europe treats the United States worse than China when it comes to trade. Trump also reiterated his view that social media companies were discriminating against conservatives.

"They should be sued," he said. (Reporting by Susan Heavey and Tim Ahmann; Additional reporting by Makini Brice; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Nick Zieminski)