After one of the most difficult years for US-European relations since World War Two, President Donald Trump has claimed that the ‘people of Europe like me’.
It’s a rather hard claim to find evidence for in the year since the Trump administration took office, which kicked off its cross-Atlantic diplomacy in February 2025 with Vice President JD Vance telling the Munich Security Conference that the greatest threat facing Europe was not Russia but the ‘threat from within’.
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