Well, that was easy.
President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would remove tariffs on Irish whiskey after golfer Shane Lowry and the Irish prime minister did the unthinkable: They asked him.
“Everybody’s been bugging me,” the president said during remarks at the Irish Open. “They’re saying, can you do me a favor? It’s so unfair what’s going on.”
The crowd cheered wildly after the president said he would lift the tariff, which sits at 10%.
Ireland’s national public broadcaster said last year that about 45% to 50% of Irish whiskey is exported to the United States, making the US its biggest export market.
In May, the Irish whiskey association said…
