President Donald Trump is taking a victory lap over the foreign investment pledges he has secured as part of several recent trade deals , variously describing the multibillion-dollar commitments as a " signing bonus " and "seed money" and a "gift."

"If you look at Japan, we're taking in $550 billion and that's like a signing bonus that a baseball player would get," Trump said Tuesday on CNBC's " Squawk Box ."

Of the European Union , he said, "They brought down their tariffs, so they paid $600 billion and because of that, I reduced their tariffs from 30% down to 15%."

"They gave me $600 billion, and that's a gift," he continued. "They gave us $600 billion that we can invest in anything we want."

He also said the 27-member economic bloc would buy, "$750 billion worth of our e

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