Trump goads cringing Europe |
President Donald Trump added insult to injury in an interview this week, calling European leaders “weak” and describing the continent as “decaying.”
There was more: “I know the bad leaders,” the president said, “I know the smart ones. I know the stupid ones. You get some real stupid ones, too. But they’re not doing a good job. Europe is not doing a good job in many ways. They’re not doing a good job.”
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The problem with these comments is not that they are untrue, but if it is indeed a problem, they are deeply uncivil. Perhaps they were unnecessarily harsh, but it’s arguable that the message — both its substance and its unvarnished contempt — needed urgently to be delivered. Europe has missed so many wake-up calls recently that a tone of exasperation might be its last hope. The danger, of course, is that some will take such bluntness as sufficient reason to dismiss the criticism rather than take it seriously.
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