Trump is correct about Europe. President Donald Trump | The Conversation Trump interview takeaways Read the transcript John Harris column | Altitude  COLUMN | ALTITUDE The Most Influential Man in Europe Thinks Europe is Full of Losers The most important European policymaker for the first time in a decade is not a European and, increasingly, doesn’t even much like the place anymore.  President Donald Trump sat down with POLITICO's Dasha Burns for a special episode of “The Conversation” at the White House, Dec. 8, 2025. | Jesse Dittmar for POLITICO By John F. Harris12/09/2025 06:06 AM EST John Harris is founding editor and global editor-in-chief of POLITICO. His Altitude column offers a regular perspective on politics in a moment of radical disruption. Let’s deal with one matter right up top. For the past decade we’ve asked POLITICO’s top European journalists and influentials to make an end-of-year judgment about who they regard as the continent’s most powerful player. This appraisal is intended as a cleareyed recognition of political realities. It is neither an award nor an endorsement.  This distinction is important to all of us at the publication, but in a 45-minute interview at the White House Monday, the man being recognized this year — President Donald Trump — made clear that it scarcely matters to him. He told interviewer Dasha Burns, our White House bureau chief, that he agreed to sit with a publication he sometimes regards skeptically because our news judgment overlapped with his self-conception: The most important European policymaker for the first time in a decade is not a European and, increasingly, doesn’t even much like the place anymore. Too much immigration, too much crime, too much aimless talk, too much weakness. These derogations were hardly one-offs. They came in a steady stream of criticism, insults, and warnings he portrayed as constructive advice designed to help “decaying” Europe forestall a fatal decline.

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As such, the European Commission is spreading disinformation in order to demand censorship, and is openly engaged in a deception campaign aimed at confusing the people of Europe and the United States about what it is doing. Many Americans may rightly wonder why they should care about what the European government is doing. President Donald Trump shut down much of the US censorship industrial complex, including by the DHS. The reason we should care is that the goal of the European Commission, like that of the governments of Britain, Brazil, and Australia, is to censor the American people. As Public was the first to report in October, a pro-censorship activist think tank, the Stanford Cyberpolicy Center, hosted a gathering of global censorship officials to censor American social media platforms and American citizens. The Stanford Cyberpolicy Center was home to the fake “researchers” who oversaw the DHS censorship-by-proxy effort from 2020 to 2022.