President Trump calls European leaders “weak”

President Donald Trump denounced Europe as a “decaying” group of nations led by “weak” people in an interview with POLITICO, criticizing the countries for failing to control migration and end the Russia-Ukraine war, and signaling that he would endorse European political candidates aligned with his own vision for the continent.

This represents Trump’s most virulent denunciation to date of these countries. threatening a decisive rupture with countries like France and Germany that already have deeply strained relations with the Trump administration.

“I think they’re weak,” Trump said of Europe’s political leaders. “But I also think that they want to be so politically correct.” “I think they don’t know what to do,” he added. “Europe doesn’t know what to do.”

Trump’s comments about Europe come at an especially precarious moment in the negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. Trump spoke Monday at the White House with POLITICO’s Dasha Burns for a special episode of “The Conversation.”

POLITICO on Tuesday named Trump the most influential figure shaping European politics in the year ahead, a recognition previously conferred on leaders including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Even amid growing turbulence at home, however, Trump remains a singular figure in international politics. President Trump’s new National Security Strategy pointed out European military weakness, and an entrenched liberal system that is allowing their native born populations to be overrun by immigrants from the 3rd world.

In the interview, Trump amplified that worldview, describing cities like London and Paris as creaking under the burden of immigration from the Middle East and Africa. Without a change in border policy, Trump said, some European states “will not be viable countries any longer.”

The President also said that he would endorse European parties and politicians that fought to stem the flow of immigrants from the 3rd world. This is sure to cause anger among the European leftist establishment, but President Trump has dealt with far greater anger and opposition than that from Europe.