Donald Trump is Saving Europe From Itself
EU elites might have preferred Biden and Harris, but under Donald Trump the U.S. has re-established the defense of Western civilization as its priority.
Don’t miss our assessment of the Trump foreign policy, both in approach and effect.
by Nile Gardiner
September 15, 2025
Donald Trump’s critics insist that he’s wrecking the transatlantic alliance. On the contrary: he’s strengthening it.
President Trump is far more interested in the future of Europe than Joe Biden ever was, and his Eurosceptic approach towards the EU is deepening America’s ties with European nation states at the expense of Brussels.
Trump has an intense dislike of the European Union but is actually the most transatlanticist president since Ronald Reagan, with a deep-seated concern for Europe’s future.
Yet President Trump is the target of relentless attacks by the ruling elites in Western European capitals. They sneer at his allegedly radical policies — policies that are making America safer — while decades of open borders and mass migration continue to bring mounting crime and disorder in Europe.
Having just returned from a conference in Austria, I was struck by the outright hostility to the Trump presidency and its ideas from many present. At times it bordered on visceral hatred, combined with a delusional refusal to accept the reality that Europe is in a state of serious economic and cultural decline, tearing apart the fabric of many of its own nations.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, his vice president, were lauded by much of Europe’s media and political establishment despite doing absolutely nothing to strengthen the security of the West. If anti-American Eurocrats had a deciding say in last year’s U.S. presidential election, Harris would have won by a landslide.
In stark contrast, Donald Trump and his administration have taken a fundamentally different, and far more effective, approach.