US President Lambasted European Leaders Threatening Decisive Rupture with France and Germany.

Washington; December 2025: President Donald Trump denounced Europe as a “decaying” group of nations led by “weak” people in a Press Meet, 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”.

Trump matched that blunt, even abrasive, candor on European affairs with a sequence of stark pronouncements on matters closer to home: He said he would make support for immediately slashing interest rates a litmus test in his choice of a new Federal Reserve chair. He said he could extend anti-drug military operations to Mexico and Colombia. And Trump urged conservative Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, both in their 70s, to stay on the bench.

Trump’s comments about Europe come at an especially precarious moment in the negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, as European leaders express intensifying alarm that Trump may abandon Ukraine and its continental allies to Russian aggression. In the interview, Trump offered no reassurance to Europeans on that score and declared that Russia was obviously in a stronger position than Ukraine.

Trump’s confident narratives (considered to be rhetoric by others) on Europe presented a sharp contrast with some of his remarks on domestic matters in the interview. The President and his party have faced a series of electoral setbacks and spiraling dysfunction in Congress this fall as voter’s rebel against the high cost of living. Trump has struggled to deliver a message to meet that new reality: In the interview, he graded the economy’s performance as an “A+++++” insisted that prices were falling across the board and declined to outline a specific remedy for imminent spikes in health care premiums.

Even amid growing turbulence at home, however, Trump remains a singular figure in international politics. 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.

During the Press Meet, 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, has 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. They respect them”.

Speaking with the Journalists, Trump flouted those boundaries and said he would continue to back favorite candidates in European elections, even at the risk of offending local sensitivities.

“I’d endorse. I’ve endorsed people, but I’ve endorsed people that a lot of Europeans don’t like. I’ve endorsed Viktor Orbán”, the hard-right Hungarian Prime Minister. Trump admired Orban’s border control policies.

It was the Russia-Ukraine war, rather than electoral politics, that Trump appeared most immediately focused on. He claimed that he had offered a new draft of a peace plan that some Ukrainian officials liked but that Zelenskyy himself had not reviewed yet. “It would be nice if he would read it”, Trump said.

He also criticised European leaders for failing to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, as he turned up the pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to sign a US-led peace deal with Moscow.

Zelenskyy met with leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom on Monday and continued to voice opposition to ceding Ukrainian territory to Russia as part of a peace deal. In a fresh challenge to Zelenskyy, who appears politically weakened in Ukraine due to a corruption scandal, Trump renewed his call for Ukraine to hold new elections. “They haven’t had an election in a long time. You know, they talk about a democracy, but it gets to a point where it’s not a democracy anymore”.

The President said he put little stock in the role of European leaders in seeking to end the war: “They talk, but they don’t produce, and the war just keeps going on and on”.

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper hit back at Trump’s comments about Europe, saying she sees “strength” in its countries. “What I see in Europe is strength, and the strength and commitment to support Ukraine and also strength to step up to the plate“, she said on Tuesday.

When the US President was asked, if European nations would remain U.S. allies if they change and grow weaker in Trump’s eyes, the President said replied, It depends.

The security strategy the White House released late last week hit similar notes in a section on “Promoting European Greatness”, claiming that Europe is facing “the prospect of civilisation erasure” and arguing that many NATO countries will soon “become majority non-European” in an echo of the racist conspiracy theory known as the “Great Replacement Theory”.

The document also advocated “cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within Europe” and signaled support for nationalist far-right political parties on the continent as “political allies” seeking to crack down on immigration and push back on government “censorship”.

Team Maverick.