Thank You, Trump, for Reminding Europe’s Leaders How Utterly Stupid They Are
The Davos gathering used to be a long litany of lamentations. The apostles of climate doom would arrive in their private jets, dine well, do those things they do when their wives aren’t traveling with them, mount the Davos altar, and deliver their apocalyptic prophecies of the type: “The end of the world is near. Ask ‘Pachamama’ for forgiveness, pay more taxes, sell your diesel car, buy an electric scooter, and believe in the gospel of Al Gore.” One after another, they performed the same ritual. Businessmen agreed in agreement while conducting deals behind the scenes, politicians gave their most dramatic performances, and heads of international organizations sold their influence for a hefty price in the tea rooms. To the outside world, in front of the media, it was all the tedious repetition of the Woke Catechism and the Gospel of the End Times. Now things are different. And it sounds better.
Everyone grabs a mountain of popcorn to watch Javier Milei speak, who, whenever he gets the chance to address the world’s leaders, makes them sink into their chairs wishing they could become invisible. Then there’s Trump, who didn’t even wait to arrive in Davos to start throwing punches, having spent days mocking the corrupt EU political class and suggesting that NATO without the United States is like a Caribbean beach without bikini-clad women.
Macron, Von der Leyen, Merz, and the rest of the European bureaucrats are completely clueless. Milei, on the other hand, seems to have a clear understanding of where we are in 2026: “America will be the beacon that reignites the West.” Trump, however, believes Merz is actually updating his policies. “Here in Europe, we’ve seen the fate the radical left tried to impose on the United States,” he remarked in his criticism of windmills. “It’s not the current chancellor’s [Merz’s] fault. He is fixing the problem. He will do a great job, but look at what they did before he arrived.”
My favorite moment of Trump’s speech came when he once again exposed the great lie of the EU. He claimed that there are cities that are no longer even recognizable, following Brussels’ disastrous immigration policies and suicidal economic strategy. “I love Europe, and I want it to succeed, but it’s not on the right track,” he declared. I understand that any European bureaucrat who has made a fortune selling hair-growth politics in Brussels might feel offended, but I doubt there is one capable of refuting him.
I am writing this from Europe. From Spain. Let me give you an example of how things work here: the Socialist government of Spain, in line with the EU, has been waging open war on cars and road travel for seven years. They have raised taxes, banned combustion-engine cars — 98 percent of all vehicles in Spain — from many cities, increased revenue from fines, and completely neglected highway and road maintenance. Meanwhile, they have spent enormous sums promoting train travel, subsidizing it, creating special passes and discounts, and repeatedly selling it as the sustainable mode of transportation that will save the planet.
As a result, Spanish high-speed rail passengers have increased by 77 percent in five years, train frequencies have soared, and the government leaves travelers with no other choice. However, although investment in construction and maintenance has increased, it is lower per kilometer than in past years, because there are now 800 more kilometers of track than 10 years ago, with much greater wear and tear, not to mention that inflation has risen 26 percent since then, driving up the cost of repairs and materials.
The Socialist idea of emptying Spanish roads and filling trains has resulted in an endless string of delays, incidents, and complaints on social media, detailing alarming train behavior — shaking, sudden braking, and more mishaps. And this colossal disaster was crowned by last Sunday’s accident, when a high-speed train derailed and collided with another, leaving more than 40 dead and over 150 injured — the worst tragedy in the history of Spanish high-speed rail. Train drivers had been requesting maintenance on that line since summer. The Sánchez government must have been very busy saving the world from CO2 emissions.
When I hear European leaders in Davos babbling nonsense about sustainable economics, climate change, green transport, and other leftist fetishes, I no longer laugh. Now I see the misery in the countryside and in agriculture, the dangerous number of potholes on highways that were perfect just a decade ago, and the faces of the innocents who die, are injured, or suffer due to the chaos of Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist trains — which, before this globalist idiot arrived, were a national pride and something Spaniards could boast about to the world.
The EU no longer exists. The farce has been exposed. And the longer Brussels’ leaders — who have been living off Europeans for years — take to understand this, the worse it will be. That’s all Trump came to tell them in Davos. But European leaders remain as bewildered as when you ask Grok to put a bikini on a photo of a girl in a bikini.