The nations of the continent have lost their standing due to failed immigration policies, the US president has said
Published 5 Jul, 2026 13:02
FILE PHOTO: A man folding his belongings as the tented migrant camp in Paris. © Getty Images / Kiran Ridley
The nations of Europe have been degraded to the status of Third World countries due to their failed immigration policies, US President Donald Trump has said.
Trump took a step back from celebrations commemorating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the US Declaration of Independence to take another jab at Washington’s supposed allies in the EU and UK.
“Europe is learning that when you take in Third World criminals, you become a Third World Country. It happens quickly, in just a blink of the eye,” the president wrote in a post on X on Saturday, July 4.
Trump also implied that his tougher stance on immigration has spared America the same outcome. “I was elected just in time!!!” he said.
Despite the number of asylum-seekers arriving in the EU subsiding since the 2015 migration crisis, the foreign-born population in the bloc reached a record 64.2 million last year, expanding by 20.2 million since 2010, according to a report by the Center for Research and Analysis on Migration at RFBerlin.
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Also on Saturday, US President J.D. Vance gave an interview to the Sunday Times, saying “something is very broken about British politics,” and “people are really crying out for significant structural change.”
Vance was commenting on the recent resignation of Keir Starmer, who became the sixth British prime minister to leave the post in the space of just a decade. The UK has “been failed by its leadership for a long time” and “can do a lot more than it’s currently doing,” he stressed.
Last week, Trump warned the EU countries that he will impose a 100% tariff on all goods they send to America if the bloc moves forward with increasing taxes on digital services provided by American tech companies.
In late June, the US president also told NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte that he was “disappointed with most” of the bloc’s European members.
“I just want loyalty… In Germany, we have 50,000 troops. And then you want a little – give us a little nudge, give us a little kiss. We don’t want much. And they say, ‘No, we can’t do it,’” he said.
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Germany rejects Trump’s demand for loyalty
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius responded to Trump earlier this week, claiming that “NATO’s concept is not one of blind obedience, but rather… a spirit free in deliberation.” The decisions within the bloc are made “by free consensus of all member states and without being dictated by individual member states,” he told Der Spiegel.
