Europeans and Pravda Media are trying to convince you that Donald Trump has abandoned a century-long commitment to the security of Europe (if you include our intervention in World War I), and our 3/4 century commitment to NATO.
As I argued yesterday, that is a serious misreading of Trump's and his administration's criticism of European policies. As his National Security Strategy makes clear, the United States wants to help Europe recover its strength and civilizational vitality, and is unwilling to enable its suicide.
Whatever you think of the National Security Strategy and/or Trump's well-deserved criticism of European leaders, POLITICO quite rightly points out that Trump is the most influential person on European matters today.
🚨Just in: Politico has named President Trump as “The most powerful person in Europe.” pic.twitter.com/YbkmqpZybZ
— The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) December 9, 2025
As well he should be. Europe depends utterly on the United States, despite having a deep well of talent and a population one-third higher than that of the United States. It is weak, self-destructive, culturally and economically sclerotic, and is a superpower in only one thing: stifling regulation.
This distinction is important to all of us at the publication, but in a 45-minute interview at the White House Monday, the man being recognized this year—President Donald Trump—made clear that it scarcely matters to him.
He told interviewer Dasha Burns, our White House bureau chief, that he agreed to sit with a publication he sometimes regards skeptically because our news judgment overlapped with his self-conception: The most important European policymaker for the first time in a decade is not a European and, increasingly, doesn’t even much like the place anymore.
Too much immigration, too much crime, too much aimless talk, too much weakness. These derogations were hardly one-offs. They came in a steady stream of criticism, insults, and warnings he portrayed as constructive advice designed to help “decaying” Europe forestall a fatal decline.
Seems about right to me. Europe is a museum that is filling up with vandals who are intent on, quite literally, raping and pillaging their way through the continent.
No doubt liberals will call such language incendiary, but the fact is that by any measure, migrants from Islamic countries are committing sexual crimes at rates that often exceed 10x those of native-born Europeans, and their welfare systems are groaning under the weight of migrants who have no interest nor incentive to contribute.
When they tell you who they are, believe them. pic.twitter.com/iNBsVBNG4Y
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) November 21, 2025
The migrants make no secret of their intent to replace Europeans and European culture with their own. They literally take to the streets to declare it, while European leaders cower and jail their own citizens for complaining about it.
President Trump has boldly declared that if Europe continues down this path, the continent can count us out.
Trump is the most powerful person in Europe because Europe cannot succeed without us, either economically or militarily. Europe does not have the means to defend itself, and couldn't even mobilize without US logistics support. The British Navy is hollow, Germany cannot get its fighter aircraft into the air, and when France and the UK considered a peacekeeping force of 10,000 troops COMBINED they concluded they couldn't muster the men or materiel to deploy it.
The US provides about 100,000 troops stationed in Europe, and these countries are more than happy to host them because they would be defenseless without them. The US has 75% of the world's tanker aircraft, and no European country has a single strategic bomber. They have only days worth of weapons should they need them, and German troops have trained with broomsticks.
And they want to set NATO policy? Regulate US companies as their own economies shrink? Set immigration policies as their own populations begin to revolt against an invasion from the Middle East?
Europeans are upset that Trump is giving them tough love. So be it. They are behaving like spoiled Gen Z influencers who want affirmation of their self-delusions, and destroying their continent in order to virtue signal.
President Donald Trump denounced Europe as a “decaying” group of nations led by “weak” people in an interview with POLITICO, belittling the traditional U.S. allies 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.
The broadside attack against European political leadership represents the president’s most virulent denunciation to date of these Western democracies, 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.”
And, like spoiled chidlren, they are screaming that they hate their parents and are thinking of running away. Only they will have to wait until they can get a job, afford an apartment and a car, and finish their college educations. Until then, they will live off their parents while complaining that they are mean.
A German and French "decisive break" with the United States? I suppose they could, but like a runaway child who is addicted to heroin and unable to make a living, they would wind up on the streets begging for alms. They know that, so they will bitch, and their advocates in the transnational elite will instead try to wait Trump out.
In recent days, European capitals have shuddered with dismay at the release of Trump’s new National Security Strategy, a highly provocative manifesto that cast the Trump administration in opposition to the mainstream European political establishment and vowed to “cultivate resistance” to the European status quo on immigration and other politically volatile issues.
In the interview, Trump amplified that worldview, describing cities like London and Paris as creaking under the burden of migration from the Middle East and Africa. Without a change in border policy, Trump said, some European states “will not be viable countries any longer.”
Using highly incendiary language, Trump singled out London’s left-wing mayor, Sadiq Khan, the son of Pakistani immigrants and the city’s first Muslim mayor, as a “disaster” and blamed his election on immigration: “He gets elected because so many people have come in. They vote for him now.”
The president of the European Council, António Costa, on Monday rebuked the Trump administration for the national security document and urged the White House to respect Europe’s sovereignty and right to self-government.
“Allies do not threaten to interfere in the democratic life or the domestic political choices of these allies,” Costa said. “They respect them.”
What a joke. These countries tried to censor Trump from speaking on X, threatening a 6% fine on Elon Musk's businesses' worldwide revenue for allowing Trump to be interviewed by Elon Musk. The Labour government sent 100 campaign workers to help Kamala Harris, and almost all these countries expressed contempt for Trump during the campaign.
Spare me.
Not to mention that the United States isn't just an "ally," but the patron of these European countries, which are incapable of standing on their own. They want our money, but not our influence.
Trump is absolutely right to say "No." If Europe wants no interference from the US, they should quit demanding we pay for their defense, and hence their failing welfare states.
If Trump weren't right in his analysis, he wouldn't be the most influential person in Europe. If these were viable countries, they wouldn't be dependent on us.
Europe's populations and opposition politicians, who are now more popular than the ruling parties, are in agreement with Trump, even if they wish he were more diplomatic in saying what he does. Nigel Farage is far more popular than any other British politician, AfD is the most popular party in Germany, and the Nordic countries are following his advice if not applauding his words.
Trump is committing the ultimate sin, which is telling the truth. If Europe doesn't like him being the most influential man on their continent, then they should man up and get their houses in order. They can only reject him if they can stand on their own.
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