President Donald Trump struck a hard line against his European counterparts in an interview with Politico, blasting leaders as "weak" and claiming their nations are “decaying,” as he criticized their handling of the war in Ukraine and immigration.

The U.S. administration vowed in its recent National Security Strategy to boost “patriotic European parties” to the detriment of the EU.

President Trump is doubling down on his criticism of Europe as European leaders push back on his new security strategy.

President Trump in an interview published Tuesday railed against what he called “weak” leaders from Europe, complaining that they did not know what to do on migration and trade. Trump

The American national security strategy echoes the language of far-right parties. But hardliners across the Atlantic seem unimpressed.

European officials are growing concerned that an emerging US-brokered peace deal in Ukraine could be exploited by Russia, paving the way for a re-invasion of territory in the war-battered nation’s eastern Donbas region.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is defying Europe’s prevailing winds as isolationism and nationalism flourish elsewhere by standing as the continent’s last major leader still speaking positively about immigration.

In recent days, President Trump has called European leaders “weak," Biden-era aid to Ukraine “stupid" and Russia “strong.” It’s a radical shift in how the United States views its closest ally. Host Mary Louise Kelly speaks with national security correspondent Greg Myre and Paris correspondent Eleanor Beardsley about where the transatlantic alliance goes from here.

The new National Security Strategy of U.S. President Donald Trump's administration shows that America understands Europe's "civilisational-scale decline", Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban wrote on X on Thursday.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte tried to curry favor with US President Donald Trump. All the other major member states also more or less courted Trump in 2025. He receives them at the White House with much fanfare,