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For America’s European allies, Trump’s first 100 days a time of reckoning, backlash

Editorial Board Published May 4, 2025
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Normandy, France — The heroic D-Day landings in Normandy marked the start of the top of World Struggle II, the place hundreds of the Individuals who fell within the assault nonetheless relaxation in graves in northwestern France.

It was the sacrifice of the American and European Allied troopers throughout the Normandy Invasion, and naturally their nice victory over the Nazis, that shaped the bedrock of an alliance that has stood agency for greater than 80 years.

Then, nonetheless, got here President Trump’s rhetoric and the following tariff struggle.

“Europe has been very, very bad for us,” Mr. Trump informed reporters final month. “Europe has taken our leaders for a ride. They don’t take our cars. They don’t take our food products. They don’t take anything…The European Union was formed for one reason. You know what that was? To rip off the United States. So, put that in your bonnet.”

Europeans have been shocked and insulted by the president’s actions within the first 100 days of his second time period.

Vincent Dampt is a fourth-generation Burgundy winemaker who’s proud to promote Chablis wine to the U.S. at a good worth.

However the Trump administration’s on-again, off-again tariffs have been an enormous headache to his enterprise.

“Because we work in a profession where it’s important to have something that is stable,” Dampt stated.

This spring, Mr. Trump saved altering his thoughts on tariffs on French wine. First, it was going to be positioned underneath what would have been a catastrophic 200% tariff. That was adopted with a 20% tariff menace, after which lastly, the president selected 10%, however simply till July. It’s unclear what is going to occur after that.

The underside line for Dampt is that any tariff will harm his clients and his gross sales.

President Trump meets with French President Emmanuel Macron within the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 24, 2025.

JIM WATSON/AFP by way of Getty Photographs

Trumpian uncertainty hasn’t simply undermined commerce, it’s shaken the good North Atlantic Treaty Group too, as amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Mr. Trump has persistently argued that NATO’s European members want to extend their protection spending.

“If they don’t pay, I’m not going to defend them,” Mr. Trump not too long ago informed reporters.

Camille Grand with the European Council on Overseas Relations says the president has a degree in regards to the transatlantic navy alliance.

“On some issues, essentially, he’s right,” Grand stated. “You know, the Europeans should spend more on defense, should be much more serious on defense.”

The Europeans know that, and they’re spending extra on the whole lot from coaching to weapons. However they worry that the Trump administration could abandon them anyway.

“What is troubling is the fact that there is a doubt on the robustness of the alliance as seen from Washington,” Grand stated.

Grand says that the “perception of many Europeans” is that Europe is extra dedicated to its relationship with the U.S. than the opposite approach round, and worry that Mr. Trump has undermined one of many biggest alliances in fashionable historical past. 

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