President Trump sat Monday for an interview with Politico — an outlet whose interviewer he told straight to the face was an “extremely unfriendly publication” — and blasted European leaders for destroying the Continent with unfettered migration, insane energy policies, and a self-destructive focus on “woke.”
“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.”
BREAKING: Trump shares TRUTH on European leaders:
— Kirill Dmitriev (@kadmitriev) December 9, 2025
- They “should be freaked out by what they’re doing to their countries. They’re destroying their countries”
- “ I think they’re weak, but I also think that they want to be so politically correct…Europe doesn’t know what to do.” https://t.co/q1EI7OAywY pic.twitter.com/5SSdLZ4bcC
The interview came as the left-leaning outlet named him “The Most Influential Man in Europe.”
“What’s clear is that Europe is dealing with an unpredictable, dominating partner whose impulses can upend the continent overnight,” they hyperventilated. “No one has exerted more influence in or on Europe this year than the U.S. president.”
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump was just named the "most powerful person in Europe" 🤣🔥
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 9, 2025
"No one has exerted more influence in or on Europe this year than the U.S. president."
Only Donald Trump! pic.twitter.com/umake1IFDe
With the New U.S. National Security Strategy, Trump Revives Monroe Doctrine
As RedState’s Ward Clark reported, Trump laid out a new National Security Strategy on Thursday designed to ensure “America remains the world’s strongest, richest, most powerful, and most successful country for decades to come.” Politico and the European Left got their knickers in a twist that he would dare to be so blunt about their failures:
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.”
Trump hammered the Euros for their inability or unwillingness to find a solution to end the Russia-Ukraine war:
They talk, but they don’t produce, and the war just keeps going on and on.
European leaders aren’t used to hearing the truth from an American president. Trump is right: their Joe Biden-like immigration policies are tearing many of their nations apart, and their green energy policies are strangling their futures. Meanwhile, they’re doubling down on censorship and groupthink.
Politico might “shudder in dismay” at the president’s tough talk, but you know what they say about the truth — sometimes it hurts.
Watch the full interview here:
Trump thrashes European leaders in wide-ranging interview: ‘I think they’re weak’ | Alexander Burns, Politico
— Owen Gregorian (@OwenGregorian) December 9, 2025
In an interview with POLITICO, the president offered no reassurance to America's allies about Russia and vowed to reshape their politics.
President Donald Trump… pic.twitter.com/sHHPa7KZ6v
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