President Donald Trump said Monday that Europe is moving in “very bad directions,” issuing his comments from the White House just days after sharper criticism aimed at European policy trends, regulation, and migration pressures made their way into official U.S. national security planning.
His remarks were prompted in part by a recent regulatory action from the European Union, which imposed a $140 million fine on the social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk. Trump described the fine as “nasty” before broadening his comments to Europe’s overall direction.
“Look, Europe has to be very careful. (They’re) doing a lot of things. We want to keep Europe Europe,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
“Europe is going in some bad directions. It’s very bad, very bad for the people. We don’t want Europe to change so much. They’re going in some very bad directions.”
The comments came shortly after the release of a new U.S. national security strategy document, which included unusually direct language about the condition of European governance and internal stability. The strategy described Europe as heavily regulated and under demographic and cultural pressure linked to mass migration, while also pointing to economic and military capacity as factors shaping long-term alliance reliability.
The document stated that if current trends continue, Europe’s internal challenges could be “eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure.”
“It is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies,” the document states.
The strategy outlined priorities such as restoring what it described as “Western identity,” strengthening national resilience against foreign influence, reducing large-scale migration flows, and placing renewed focus on domestic security objectives, including efforts to combat international drug cartels. In language rarely directed at allied nations, the report said the administration would be “cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations.”
At the center of the immediate dispute was the European Union’s action against X, which was fined under the bloc’s digital regulatory framework. Following the fine, Elon Musk said the European Union should be “abolished.” European officials in Brussels dismissed his remarks as “completely crazy.”
When asked directly about the EU fine during the White House exchange, Trump said that “I don’t think it’s right,” while adding that “Elon has not called me to ask for help on that one” and noting that he would review further details at a later time.
The situation highlights ongoing differences between U.S. and European approaches to regulation of large technology companies, migration management, and national sovereignty questions, while also reflecting broader debates about alliance strength, economic competitiveness, and the balance between centralized authority and national control across the Atlantic.
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