– “Look at what’s happened to Europe – they’re being eaten alive,” said Donald Trump on Thursday during a visit to a lorry manufacturer in Texas.
This is far from the first warning from the US President about what is afoot in Europe.
– “Your countries are going to hell,” Trump told European allies during his speech to the UN General Assembly last autumn.
In its national security strategy a few months later, the White House discussed the prospect of European allies having a non-European majority population.
Vice-President JD Vance added that Islamists could gain control of European nuclear weapons, having earlier that year lambasted European leaders for the state of freedom of expression in our part of the world.