7 March 1999 - top banana war

U.S. Trade Representative Peter Scher speaks to the press about the U.S.-European banana trade war.

“See this banana? You’d all better listen close and do what I say or I’m going to shoot you with it. You in the back! No laughing! Now, here’s how we figure it in America. We’re top gun, so we get to be top banana. The euro-wimps had better get their act together on free trade or there will be more little incidents like the ski gondola in Italy. Dismissed.”