{"id":229358,"date":"2025-12-12T14:56:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/229358\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:56:19","slug":"donald-trump-slammed-by-bbc-question-time-mp-for-trying-to-divide-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/229358\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump slammed by BBC Question Time MP for ‘trying to divide Europe’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Flynn, leader of the SNP at Westminster shared his outrage at Donald Trump’s comments about Europe “decaying” on BBC Question Time’s discussion from Paisley tonight<\/p>\n

23:17, 11 Dec 2025Updated 23:22, 11 Dec 2025<\/p>\n

\"DonaldDonald Trump’s comments about Europe “decaying” were discussed on Question Time(Image: AP)<\/p>\n

Panelists and audience members on BBC Question Time<\/a> tonight were fuming with Donald Trump’s<\/a> claims about Europe “decaying”.<\/p>\n

On the panel tonight was Stephen Flynn, leader of the SNP<\/a> at Westminster, Anas Sarwar MSP, leader of the Scottish Labour<\/a> party, Russell Findlay, leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Reform UK member, Malcolm Offord and Journalist Angela Haggerty.<\/p>\n

After making an important announcement about the show’s future Fiona swiftly moved on to discuss Donald Trump<\/a>‘s comments towards Europe with the wider audience and the panel. She said: “Donald Trump said about European leaders ‘I think they’re weak and I also think they want to be so politically correct I think they don’t know what to do’. That’s pretty unflattering about Kier Starmer isn’t it?”<\/p>\n

\"FionaFiona asked the panel if they thought Donald Trump’s claim was fair(Image: BBC)<\/p>\n

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Stephen Flynn said: “I’m pretty outraged at the fact that when we’re at war on our continent, and we are at war with Russia<\/a>, our most trusted ally is choosing proactively to try and divide Europe. I think that does the United States of America a massive disservice and I also think it does all of us a disservice.”<\/p>\n

An audience member said: “My problem with Donald Trump<\/a> is we give him too much respect, he doesn’t give us any respect. As the most powerful man in the world<\/a> supposedly, his behaviour is appalling… to me he’s an absolute disgrace to be the President of the United States.”<\/p>\n

Another audience member chimed in saying: “Donald Trump is driven by money, nothing else. He is busy trying to cosy up to Putin because he reckons he’ll get a good deal there… everything he thinks about is money, money, money, how much can he make and apparently he has made an absolute fortune, him and his family.”<\/p>\n

\"StephenStephen Flynn was outraged (Image: BBC)<\/p>\n

Malcolm Offord said: “The American point of view on this is that Europe doesn’t seem to want to defend its own borders and how long does America keep paying for that?”<\/p>\n

Russell Findlay refuted Trump’s claims Europe is “decaying” but did address his concerns about the future and the safety in the UK. He said: “Well, the world<\/a> is incredibly dangerous and volatile, and we should all think very seriously about our safety in this country… I’m deeply, deeply,deeply concerned about the future.”<\/p>\n

BBC Question Time returns on January 22 in Macclesfield and then on January 29 in King’s Lynn.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Flynn, leader of the SNP at Westminster shared his outrage at Donald Trump’s comments about Europe “decaying”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[108406,9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,790,122708,4537,122707,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-229358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-anas-sarwar","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-question-time","tag-snp","tag-stephen-flynn","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115707182434053790","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}