{"id":382842,"date":"2026-01-21T20:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382842\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T20:21:09","slug":"trumps-jibes-are-wearing-thin-for-many-of-europes-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382842\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s jibes are wearing thin for many of Europe&#8217;s leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Without us, right now you&#8217;d all be speaking German,&#8221; President Donald Trump told his audience at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He may well have forgotten German is the most widely spoken of the four official languages in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many people \u2013 from Brussels to Berlin to Paris \u2013 will have found his speech to be insulting, overbearing and inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In it, he presented the idea that Europe is careering down the wrong path. That is a theme Trump has frequently explored, but it has a different impact when delivered on European soil to the faces of supposed friends and allies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Without us, right now you&#8217;d all be speaking German,&#8221; President Donald Trump told his audience at the World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-382842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}