EU Officials Try To Put On a Brave Face as the Trump Administration Give Them the Cold Shoulder and Impose Steep Tariffs

By now, most nations of the world have recalibrated their foreign policies to deal with the ‘Trump tornado.’

When it comes to the European Union, as much as they may engage in occasional bravado in front of the cameras, their officials are working intently to be on President Donald J. Trump’s good side – and so far, it’s not working.

Armed with the US military might and threatening to curtail access to the gigantic American consumers’ market, the President is advancing his Foreign Policy agenda without much regard to the opinion of the European Globalist-Liberal establishment – that nefarious entity that captured the group of Western nations that formerly were good US allies.

Yesterday (27), the European Commission was striving to paint its engagement with the Trump administration in the best light after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio canceled a meeting with EU High Representative Kaja Kallas at the last minute.

Euronews reported:

Neither the EU nor the US side have explained the nature of the scheduling issue.

Add to that the fact that Trump has reaffirmed his intention of imposing 25% tariffs on EU-made goods, and we understand the picture not to be rosy at all for the Eurocrats.

The Euronews report makes a puerile point of suggesting that relations are going badly because Trump is ‘mercurial’, oblivious to the fact that his popular mandate is to defy EU’s censorship, ‘firewalling’ of conservatives and even the canceling of elections and arrest of the favorite candidate, as in Romania.