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ER Editor: It’s a freakin’ movie. How much more proof do we need?! See this from yesterday —
Trump Breaks Europe Over His Knee: Unprecedented Optics of White House ‘Losers’ Gathering’
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Ursula von der Leyen told to leave room during multilateral talks at Trump’s Washington summit – not a “leader” nor an “elected head of state”
Lol, also open thread.
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According to Nouripour, the EU Commission President was kicked out of the room because the American politicians do not regard her as an elected head of a state. Nouripour immediately disputed this American viewpoint:
“Ms. von der Leyen represents over 400 million people. Yesterday, she was also the voice of the states that were not present, which are highly relevant to the dispute with Ukraine, such as Poland, the Baltic states and the Czech Republic.”
ER: This is the relevant tweet —
Translation: Uschi #vonderLeyen was promptly shown the door by the Americans. Reason: Only “Leaders” allowed! It doesn’t get any better than that
Uschi #vonderLeyen wurde kurzerhand von den Amis des Raumes verwiesen.
Begründung: Nur “Leaders” zugelassen!
Mehr geht nicht 😉Quelle: SL Fankanal pic.twitter.com/3QSuCl1xbP
— Lexa 🇩🇪 (@rebew_lexa) August 20, 2025
He said that meetings with Trump were too much about not upsetting him instead of representing “one’s own national and European interests.” Europe must remain at America’s side, he said, but it must also become more independent so that it can support Ukraine on its own.
Von der Leyen represents “over 400 million people” in the same way that rude clerks at the Registry of Motor Vehicles represent local drivers.
To begin with, there is no singular European people or unified European national interest on behalf of which von der Leyen could ever speak. She has no meaningful budget, she commands no army and she has no political legitimacy.
Von der Leyen last won an election in 2003 for the state parliament of Niedersachsen; her entire career since then has been a product of back room deals, internal party pecking orders and Angela Merkel’s patronage. The latter brought her to prominence with a series of cabinet posts, culminating in her six-year term as Minister of Defence, where she was widely accused of mismanagement and incompetence.
Back in 2019, only a third of Germans thought Merkel’s “weakest minister” was fit to preside over the EU Commission, a position she owes largely to Emmanuel Macron’s political triangulations.
The Americans were entirely right to tell her to get out, and they should do this more often.
Source
Featured image source, von der Leyen & Trump: https://x.com/UlfKollwitz/status/1958397921843622336/photo/1
Featured image source, von der Leyen: https://apollo-news.net/washington-gipfel-von-der-leyen-musste-den-raum-verlassen-die-usa-wollten-nur-leaders-sprechen/
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