Trump on Europe’s immigration policies
Harsh, but correct.
Here’s what he had to say [emphasis mine]:
President Donald Trump denounced Europe as a “decaying” group of nations led by “weak” people in an interview with POLITICO, belittling the traditional U.S. allies for failing to control migration and end the Russia-Ukraine war, and signaling that he would endorse European political candidates aligned with his own vision for the continent. …
“I think they’re weak,” Trump said of Europe’s political leaders. “But I also think that they want to be so politically correct.”
“I think they don’t know what to do,” he added. “Europe doesn’t know what to do.”
Many of Western Europe’s leaders have backed themselves into a corner. Their countries have already imported large numbers of mostly Muslim unassimilated newcomers, whose values are antithetical to European tolerance, who commit a disproportionate number of crimes against women, and who put a strain on generous welfare benefits. And yet the current leaders commitment to “tolerance” and fears of seeming racist or “nationalist” have them paralyzed in terms of doing much of anything about it.
Trump is determined not to let the US fall into the same trap. Under Obama and then Biden it came very close. Trump’s not-so-secret power is that he doesn’t care to tiptoe around the issues, and he’s unafraid of being called racist.
Without a change in border policy, Trump said, some European states “will not be viable countries any longer.”
Using highly incendiary language, Trump singled out London’s left-wing mayor, Sadiq Khan, the son of Pakistani immigrants and the city’s first Muslim mayor, as a “disaster” and blamed his election on immigration: “He gets elected because so many people have come in. They vote for him now.”
I heartily recommend following on X Velina Tchakarova, the most grounded geopolitical analyst in the West in recent years. She’s Bulgarian, based in Vienna, and she just posted a most clear-eyed summation of the stakes for Europe in the following essay:
https://therepublicjournal.com/essays/europes-grand-strategy-in-the-new-cold-war/
Europe really is in a structural mess, and its leadership class and institutions are flailing. Without a major change of course the continent’s future is bleak.
And yet the current leaders commitment to “tolerance” and fears of seeming racist or “nationalist” have them paralyzed in terms of doing much of anything about it.
I am extremely skeptical that this is the reason. I may be cynical, but I’m pretty sure it’s about importing a cheaper working class. Even if lots of them don’t work, enough of them do to keep wages lower. We see the very same thing here of course; all over the developed world except maybe Japan and Korea.
The consequences for being called racist are imposed from the top down. Current leaders can stop imposing those consequences any time they wish, and they will if it’s ever in their self-interest.
Well yes; but actually, it’s about neutralizing the native population—using perpetual crisis to confuse them, confound them, intimidate them, anger them, make them poorer, instill fear and limit their options**—so as to achieve total and permanent political power and control…
…all under the rubric of “human rights”, “human dignity”, “morality”, “fairness”, and “saving the planet for our children” (actually, the children of the people they are
allowinginviting to flood into their countries).** Cf. Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) as well as access to nationalized health care—access to anything, for that matter…
Maybe. But what is their self-interest.
Niketas:
I think that originally, one of the big motives was indeed to import people who would work for lower wages. But over time, the negatives became bigger than the positives and now the leaders don’t know how to get out of the bind. The penalties for being “racist” and “nationalist” come from the left in those countries, the immigrants (who have some voting power), the internationalists, the academics, and the leaders themselves, who don’t want to be like that awful person, Trump.
The only countries in Europe I deem worthwhile are Poland and Hungary. The rest are in an unseemly, hasty conversion into Eurabia.
Minnesota is our Euro equivalent.
To Dan D:
Thank you for the link to “The Republic” article by Velina Tchakarova. I printed it
out just now for reading later.
I also subscribed to The Republic for future articles.
John Galt III
I don’t think they’re ‘backed into a corner’. They’re simply indifferent to the interests of the people injured by all of this.
@Art Deco:I don’t think they’re ‘backed into a corner’. They’re simply indifferent to the interests of the people injured by all of this.
I agree 100%.
@neo:The penalties for being “racist” and “nationalist” come from the left in those countries, the immigrants (who have some voting power), the internationalists, the academics…
Only people with power can impose consequences, the consequences do not come from people without no matter how much squawking they do on BlueSky. Academics can’t fire me from my job for my online opinions, but my boss can, or his boss.
Powerful people tune out “leftists, immigrants, academics” whenever they wish, we saw that in the presidencies of Obama and Clinton before him; but they frequently don’t even have to ignore them because the leftists, immigrants, and academics will just say what the powerful want them to say, or their microphones get turned off (as Cindy Sheehan discovered–and I saw this up close in 2020 and 2021 in the Seattle area, when BLM was tolerated right up until they picked the wrong target.)
It is very convenient for the powerful to pretend that black people run Black Lives Matter or that Cindy Sheehan led the opposition to the Iraq War or that Greta Thunberg is a leader in the environmental movement or in opposition to Israel. These people are tools and mouthpieces.
Not long ago here I linked to Extinction Rebellion’s website where they have donations processed through Stripe and PayPal. That means that the government has the names on addresses of the people who handle their money whenever they want or can shut down their funding whenever they choose to. Stripe or PayPal of course could since Extinction Rebellion violates their terms of service. But it doesn’t happen. Some faction among the powerful wants them free to do what they are doing.
the leaders themselves
These are always and only the ones who are doing it. They can choose to whom they listen (or pretend to) but they themselves exercise the power. We should not lose sight of this.
That powerful people are afraid of being called “racist” is only true insofar as they are afraid of each other.
As example of Nick’s assessment is Bill Gates and climate change. Will others of his class/stratum take heed?
Is Musk so reviled by the powerful progressive elites because he shows diversity of thought?
And then there are the Soros’s a malignant force all their own.
Om wrote: “Is Musk so reviled by the powerful progressive elites because he shows diversity of thought?”
Musk builds physical things, unlike the rest of the tech million-& billionaires. He’s an engineer, and the rest consider themselves above engineers.
They also have been promised seats at the elite table by Soros et al, and Musk threatens that.
Related…
Further narrative collapse…as another climate hoax bites the dust:
“Nature Journal Retracts Climate Alarm Study After Data Errors Surface;
“The original paper was widely cited in many recent climate crusade efforts.”—
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/12/nature-journal-retracts-climate-alarm-study-after-data-errors-surface/
To be sure, most of the hard-core will, as per usual, either ignore or not notice the retraction…
As a European, long since part of White Flight, I can confirm that Trump’s assessment is totally correct. Civil war comes. The plague of Islam versus the rest. The body count will be lower if it comes sooner. The USA faces the same war in two generations as the plague outbreeds you.
Even worse, Europe is providing safe haven for the rejected censorship complex of the USA who are hoping to use the EU laws to work their way back into power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZlnIO5kqJc
https://x.com/da_fant/status/1998090511807381613
It’s intentional.
A hard core of power-hungry nihilists and Marxists, camouflaged and supported by True Believers, useful idiots, and brainwashed postmodern bien-pensants with no other identity in which to clothe themselves.
Europe has elected the same leaders – and in the same way, with the same coalitions – as New York City.
There do not seem to be enough Christians or truly Liberal, free market Westerners to constitute a social/political movement as in the US… The farmers are leading a loose rebellion of producers and others with common sense…. and even they are compromised by decades of subsidies.
Mark Steyn wrote “America Alone” 19 years ago. A generation has been born and are now having their own children in that time span.
As he wrote then, and has said many times, “The future belongs to those who show up for it.”
…Keeping in mind that all this is being done for all “the best reasons”: for the benefit of society, to save the planet, to guarantee relative prosperity and social programs for “all”…and the kicker—“to preserve democracy”!!
Yep, they’ve even co-opted “democracy”, clever fiends that they are…
(And why not? East Germany did it…and bequeathed us the Brabant along with superb, if a bit souped-up, female athletes and great education and health care—as long as one toed the line. Oh, and a roof over one’s head. BUT DON’T DARE THINK INDEPENDENTLY OR OPPOSE THE LEADERSHIP.
Yep, real trendsetters, those guys…)
See, they HAVE TO do this because the peasants can’t be relied upon to do anything but screw up and destroy…
And so, it’s pure Big Brother…with a smile (though a rather threatening smile, at that).
The message of course is—as usual—Do as we say and everything’ll be just fine….
The problem is, though, “Been there, done that”…how many dozens of times is it now??
File under: WEFer Madness
I think spite plays a role here too. One of Tony Blair’s underlings made a remark about opening the floodgates of immigration being a way of “rubbing the right’s nose in diversity.” Nothing about whether it was good policy or not, it was done entirely for spite is how I read that.
I think spite plays a role here too. One of Tony Blair’s underlings made a remark about opening the floodgates of immigration being a way of “rubbing the right’s nose in diversity.” Nothing about whether it was good policy or not, it was done entirely for spite is how I read that.
Yes. And that suggests unserious people in places of power.
To the contrary, they’re deadly serious.
The only questions are:
1. Their ability to implement (including hijacking “Law” Enforcement and the military)
2. The intensity of the pushback and their response to it
3. Whether Trump will somehow intervene
“11 Signs That Our World Is Rapidly Becoming A Lot More Orwellian”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/11-signs-our-world-rapidly-becoming-lot-more-orwellian
“It’s intentional.”
Yep, and if there’s still any doubt about it here’s Minnesota’s favorite psychopath (demonstrating that he’s definitely EU material!).
“As federal investigation expands, MN Gov. Walz tells Seattle crowd he’ll welcome more Somalis”—
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/federal-probe-widens-gov-walz-tells-seattle-crowd-hell-welcome-more
Barry Meislin:
It is sobering to remind oneself that Walz came way too close to becoming our VP.
We got side-tracked into Minnesota, but here are a few more posts on the subject.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/homan-confirms-dhs-investigating-whether-ilhan-omar-came-us-illegally-marrying
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/house-chairman-says-tim-walz-political-career-over-will-subpoena-over-fraud-if
“Tim Walz based his local support from a considerable segment of the Somali community, and has been less than forthcoming about his role and actions in the related and now-revealed widespread fraud that has been part of Minnesota’s Democratic Party landscape for years.”