‘Major Charm Offensive’: European Leaders Cozy Up to Trump to Remind Him of Current Alliances

Dec 7, 2024 | At the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral, French President Macron and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy met with President-elect Donald Trump. The Atlantic staff writer McKay Coppins explains how European leaders find themselves in a tenuous position with the U.S. as Trump appears ready to pull back from existing European partnerships.

Here we see political A-listers A-scraping. Brown-nosing! Nothing more, nothing less. Weak politicians who are spineless. If I were Biden, I’d be p****d off “bigly"! Trump is not yet the president, but the president-elect. He shouldn’t even be in Paris representing America. I can see that we Europeans are in for an awful time of it in the coming years, represented as we surely will be by weak, effete, excuses for political leaders. – © Mark Alexander