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 and comes to describe its ally as a . “Europe has to be very careful. We want to keep Europe European. Europe is going in the wrong direction, and it is very bad for its people,” he said at an event at the White House.
During the event, in which he announced aid of 12 billion dollars for the US agricultural sector, Trump answered a question about , the social network owned by technology magnate Elon Musk, an ally of the Republican. “It’s disgusting,” he declared about the sanction, although he acknowledged that he did not have in-depth news about it: “Elon has not called me to help him with that.”
Trump has also declared “not understanding” how European regulators can justify the measure, which he believes is “not correct.” 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 in the new National Security Strategy, the document in which, by law, each president must present the geopolitical priorities of his Administration at the beginning of his term. What the White House has disclosed for this second term depicts a Europe in supposed decline, at risk of immigration turning its usual inhabitants into a minority and on the way to losing its own civilization. A Europe that he criticizes more, despite being theoretically his best ally, than Russia itself, a supposedly hostile power.
The White House document warns that its forecasts may be fulfilled in a matter of just two or three decades, and at that time it is possible that some European countries will no longer have “economies and armies strong enough to continue being reliable allies” of Washington.
The fine that Trump spoke about, announced last week, is the first sanction by the European Commission under the new Digital Services Regulation, approved in 2022 and which has been progressively coming into force since 2023. The old Twitter, which has been renamed X after being acquired by Musk four years ago, has been fined 120 million euros for three violations of the law.
One of these irregularities is related to the fact that, for years, Twitter recognized the identity of accounts of relevant personalities with a blue verification mark. Musk changed that policy to allow any user who paid for the use of the social network to have its blue tick. The Commission finds 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 has sanctioned X for lack of transparency in advertising repositories (which indicate the content of the ads and who pays for them) and for restrictions on access to platform data by institutions and researchers.
