Europe's take on the speech

[malaise]

Rude, ignorant and offensive

[Ocelot II]

1. Sounds par for the course for Piggy.

[JohnnyLib2]

2. Not fit for duty. Needs to be removed.

And Congressional Republicans are derelict in basic duties. We're in major trouble.

[NCDem47]

3. "Speech" HA!

Stream of consciousness(?) and rambling. NEVER a structured speech.

What an F’n clown.

[highplainsdem]

4. That's the White House idiot.

[malaise]

5. Trump is not an ally

He is a predator and a bully
General Richard Shirreff
Former Former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO

Europe must ask Trump - are you in or out and move on.

On BBC

[suegeo]

8. Trump is not an ally

He is a predator and a bully.

He is also a convicted felon, Putin's puppet, and he's a rapist.

[haele]

6. Satirical Comedy in the European style.

He's a comic villain in a Voltaire play.
A ridiculous, pompous, delusional, unqualified and unfairly powerful Ass.

[lark]

7. My take:

Lies
Whine
repeat inanely forever and ever

[flashman13]

9. Newsom stood up and said the Europeans are complicit. He is right. Rude, ignorant and offensive yes, but

all that is still in the polite political realm of normal. State the obvious. Trump is clinically insane and he is an extreme danger to everyone on the planet. America, you must clean up your house and remove him - NOW.

[malaise]

10. Agree

Rec

[carpetbagger]

15. Europeans didn't elect him

They know he's nuts, and they knew it in 2024. It's not their job to feed the trolls with bombast. It is their job to navigate a West with ambiguous U.S. presence, and they seem to be doing that job with deployments and with proposed countertariffs, all while fighting a war on their eastern flank and dealing with nationalist movements of their own.

It's on us to oppose our elected leaders in the way we choose. And from their viewpoint, while we don't believe this is who we are, they do. And it's more likely than not that someday they'll have to deal with the same issues under a different Republican American president.

[flashman13]

17. Never have so many people buried their heads in the sand so deeply while risking their butts so completely.

Well, not quite never. Nevil Chamberlain believed Hitler when he said after the Munich Agreement, which allowed him to gobble up the Sudetenland, was agreed to, he had no further territorial claims in Europe. As I said yesterday, what Chamberlain got instead was WWII. Europe thought Hitler, although "eccentric", was just another politician they could negotiate with. They are making the same mistake with Trump.

[spanone]

11. Too kind of them.

[malaise]

12. So true

Take off the effin gloves

[homegirl]

13. SO,

Typical Trump!

[Oliver Bolliver Butt]

14. rude, ignorant and offensive was already the baseline european impression of americans

[malaise]

16. OK

Add on steroids 😀