Trump underscored his “good” personal relationships in Canada, but sitting beside NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, he remained adamant that the United States can no longer “subsidize” its northern neighbor.

“We don’t need their cars. We don’t need their energy. We don’t need their lumber. We don’t need anything that they, that they give,” he said. “We do it because we want to be helpful, but it comes a point when you just can’t do that. You have to run your own country.”

Instead, Trump indicated Canada, a NATO member, “only works as a state” of the U.S., though he would permit it to keep its national anthem.

“It would be one of the great states,” he said. “If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it, between Canada and the U.S., just a straight artificial line, somebody did a long time ago, many, many decades ago, and it makes no sense. … There’ll be a little disruption, but it won’t be very long. But they need us. We really don’t need them. And we have to do this. I’m sorry.”

Trump’s comments came as Canadian officials, including Ontario Premier Doug Ford, are in Washington on Thursday after Trump’s 25% across-the-board tariffs against Canada went into effect this week. Additional 25% duties on steel and aluminum are also being imposed. In response, Canada announced last week that it was putting 25% tariffs on $30 billion worth of U.S. goods, with 25% levies placed on another $20 billion worth of U.S. goods overnight.

Ford’s threat to retaliate with a 25% surcharge on electricity imported into Michigan, Minnesota, and New York was met with Trump’s own retaliatory measures: increasing the across-the-board tariffs to 50%.

Trump also used the informal press conference to complain about the European Union‘s tariffs against the U.S.

On Thursday morning, Trump declared he was introducing 200% tariffs on alcohol from the EU after the European bloc said there would be a 50% duty on U.S. whiskey as part of a package of levies on $26 billion euros worth of U.S. goods, or about $28 billion — approximately the same amount of EU goods affected by the U.S.’s actions.

TRUMP THREATENS 200% ALCOHOL TARIFFS ON EU COUNTRIES

“Take a look at the EU, we’re not allowed to sell cars there,” Trump said. “It’s prohibited because of their policies and also their non-monetary tariffs. That’s, they put obstacles in your way that you can do nothing about.”

The president added, “They don’t take our agriculture. We take their agriculture. It’s like a one-way street with them. The European Union is very, very nasty.”