In a column freshly out from behind their paywall, Politico founding editor-in-chief John Harris dubs President Trump as Europe's most influential person this year. He accurately adds that "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."
You know Harris dislikes Trump but is relatively fair and accurate in describing the problems Trump has with current and recent past European leadership. Trump views most as "weak" and therefore not consequential or worthy of respect.
I tend to share the skeptical views Trump has of much of Europe's leadership, and of the EU in particular. In recent years both Paris and London have been real disappointments, dirty and overrun by third world migrants. Oslo and Brussels ditto.
