European leaders divided over how far to accommodate Trump’s ‘wrecking ball’ politics and foreign policy
US Democrats will use a security summit this weekend to urge European leaders to stand up to Donald Trump, with the continent divided over how to keep the unpredictable US president on side.
Democrats at the annual Munich Security Conference will include some of Trump’s most outspoken critics, such as the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, the New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Arizona senator Ruben Gallego and the Michigan governor, Gretchen Whitmer.
Newsom has already urged Europeans to realise that “grovelling to Trump’s needs” makes them “look pathetic on the world stage”, telling reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month he “should have brought a bunch of knee pads”.
Bruh, they can’t do it themselves and they’re asking a whole other continent???
Meanwhile, people of the US urge Democrats to stand up to Trump.
You first, you gutless swine.
Well said. Do Democrats understand optics? Because I swear US propaganda has cooked their brains just as bad as MAGA. They’re asking Europe to do the job they completely failed at doing for a decade? Please shut the fuck up Dems, all you’re good for is asking others to do your jobs better than you can. FFS.
Unreal, isn’t it?
They just can’t deal with it themselves because they have to compromise or lose something. So they ask others.
A nation that told others to mind their own business when those others said they needed to vote.
The administration truly does reflect the country and its refusal to take responsibility.
I was here to say the same thing.
How about the damn Democrats stand up to Trump. Stop asking the world to fix your problems.
We could use the help. But the miserable gormlessness of the Democrats is a big part of the problem.
This, exactly. trump and everything he represents is only ever been made possible by the feckless, equivocating cowardice of a Democratic Party that more organized around fundraising than it is about accomplishing anything. Newsom is the complete embodiment of those failures and his posturing for the next presidency represents a continuation of them.
I understand that it isn’t fair and that we don’t “deserve” help, but Trump is a cancer on the earth itself.
European leaders and OP when Trump inevitably attacks and invades a NATO nation because they don’t take him seriously:
“Europe should do our job!”
- Some US guy
It’s still in our interest to try to change the trajectory of the US.
Every time… Oh Canada. Come save us from ourselves. Oh… I’ll just have tots and pears that the next government will save us… Dude!! Grow a pair!! No one is coming to save you from what you blindly walked into!! Man. I’m so tired of America.
Everyone in here saying, “why don’t you stand up to him, Dems?”
Guys, the Democrats don’t do that. I don’t think they even know how to do that. The whole concept is so alien to them you might as well be asking them to surf the rings of Saturn. No, no, the Democrats don’t stand up to rich and powerful people, they gargle their balls. They can get those things so deep in their donor holes that they can tickle the scrot with their uvulas.
If you’re looking for the Dems to stand up to Trump, you’re barking up the wrong tree, friends.
Pot meet kettle. Fuck idon’t want Gavin to run. Would much prefer AOC.
What do people think of Mark Cuban? If I had to choose between Gavin or Mark if he decided to run. I’d easily go with Mark
What do people think of Mark Cuban?
Never another rich person.
I don’t want president Gavin Newsom either, but I don’t see how anyone could possibly think “A reality TV businessman billionaire who’s BLUE on the TV charts is what this country needs right now”
I just like him because he at least understands there is a serious problem with healthcare in this country and it needs changed. While I dont doubt he’s probably not for universal, if we’re not going to get a actual leftist. He’d be the one I choose
And he also said tariffs hurt every American and we are the ones who pay it.
I mean, I hope we don’t end up in a situation where he’s the guy on the ballot. I really don’t think a billionaire is going to fix much. I don’t think they should be an actual thing that exists, but that’s beside the point. I’d vote for an actual working class champion in the primary though and hope to get the opportunity to vote for them in the main election. And if it ended up being a billionaire on the ballot vs. another MAGA, obviously I’m voting for the candidate that has the best chance defeat the MAGA because I was raised right and despise Nazis. But we’re in this mess in no small part because of the billionaires and wannabes, so I’m getting tired of picking less-bad when we should be running a real champion for progressive ideas to help raise working people.
Meanwhile they’re limp-wristing their own resistance and giving him everything he wants after just the faintest complaint.
