Source: SFGate
“Republican Mike Johnson has delivered a historic speech to the British parliament, the first U.S. House speaker to address the body. Johnson spoke as U.S. President Donald Trump bitterly lashes out at America’s most trusted allies, posting overnight that the United Kingdom is acting with ‘GREAT STUPIDITY’ in national security he intensifies his own claims to forcibly take Greenland in the Arctic. ‘I told the president that I felt that my mission here today was to encourage our friends and help to calm the waters, so to speak,’ Johnson told British lawmakers. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, meanwhile, described Trump’s planned new tariffs over Greenland as ‘a mistake, especially between long-standing allies’ and called into question Trump’s trustworthiness, saying that he had agreed last year not to impose more tariffs on members of the bloc.” (01/20/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/the-latest-top-eu-official-questions-trump-s-21304432.php