The President of the United States, Donald Trump, attacked the European Union again this Monday, three days after the publication of the new National Security Strategy in which the White House prophesies that Europe is facing the disappearance of its civilization and comes to qualify its ally as an adversary. “Europe has to be very careful. We want to keep Europe European. Europe is going in the wrong direction, and it’s very bad for its citizens,” he said at a White House event.
At the event, during which he announced $12 billion in aid for the US agricultural sector, Trump responded to a question about the €120 million fine imposed by European regulators on X, the social network owned by technology mogul Elon Musk, an ally of the Republican. “It’s disgusting,” he said of the sanction, while acknowledging that he had no specific news on the subject: “Elon didn’t call me to help him with that.”
Trump also said he “does not understand” how European regulators can justify the measure, which he said is “not fair.” And he immediately issued his warning to the continent: “We don’t want Europe to change too much. They are going in very bad directions, and that is something very serious.”
With these statements, Trump confirms that he fully supports the content on Europe of the new National Security Strategy, the document in which, by law, each president must present the geopolitical priorities of his administration at the start of his term. What the White House has revealed for this second term depicts a Europe supposedly in decline, threatened by immigration which is transforming its usual inhabitants into a minority and on the verge of losing its own civilization. A Europe that he criticizes more, although it is theoretically his best ally, than Russia itself, a supposedly hostile power.
The White House document warns that its predictions could come true in just two or three decades, and that by then some European countries may no longer have “economies and militaries strong enough to continue to be reliable allies” of Washington.
The fine that Trump was talking about, announced last week, is the first sanction from the European Commission under the new regulation on digital services, approved in 2022 and which gradually comes into force since 2023. The former Twitter, renamed X after being bought by Musk four years ago, was fined 120 million euros for three violations of the law.
One of these irregularities is linked to the fact that, for years, Twitter recognized the identity of the accounts of the personalities concerned with a blue verification mark. Musk modified this policy to allow any user who has paid for the use of the social network to have their blue check mark. The Commission believes that this step makes it difficult to determine the authenticity of accounts and their content, and exposes users to scams and other forms of manipulation.
In addition, Brussels sanctioned
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