Brussels has “bent at the knee” before US President Donald Trump – that’s how one White House official described the recent trade deal involving tariffs, massive investment in US economy and a pledge to purchase American energy.

It’s the kind of humiliation ritual for which Trump would normally have to pay. Instead, he demanded that the EU be the one to leave billions for him on the night table before he returned stateside. And they did. Or at least it seemed that way initially. Because watching Trump extract cash out of the EU felt like one of those videos where the next part suddenly asks for a credit card to unlock the pixelated image.

But Trump himself already sounds like he’s starting to entertain the possibility that he’s been had by the EU. Kind of like an increasing number of Europeans feel on a near-daily basis.

What was the first clue? It should have been the fact that the only one around to do “business” on behalf of the EU was unelected chief Eurocrat and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. He wandered into that meeting like a typical American tourist in summertime Europe, unaware that everything legitimate shuts down and takes off, leaving behind the pickpockets and scam artists.

Trump figured that he secured $600 billion in European investments for the American economy. That would be on top of a pledge to step up EU purchasing of overpriced American gas to replace the much cheaper Russian stuff that Trump and Biden made them ditch – even as Canada looks set to offer the EU

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