{"id":789371,"date":"2026-02-26T03:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/789371\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T03:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:14:16","slug":"frankly-its-just-rude-how-trumps-european-envoys-play-to-an-audience-of-one-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/789371\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Frankly, it\u2019s just rude.\u2019 How Trump\u2019s European envoys play to an audience of one\u00a0 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The marching orders for every flashpoint involving U.S. ambassadors can be found in the lines of the National Security Strategy<\/a>, published in December. It set American diplomats the task of \u201ccultivating resistance\u201d to the path set by Europe\u2019s current set of leaders and celebrated the rise of \u201cpatriotic\u201d far right parties, seen as aligned with Trump\u2019s MAGA movement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It takes two to have a diplomatic fight, however, and not all European countries have taken the bait.\u00a0<\/p>\n

U.S. ambassador to the U.K. Warren Stephens has \u201ckey themes he is keen to speak on\u201d including energy and free speech, according to one U.S. official, and is \u201cnot afraid to speak his mind.\u201d He voiced many of those during a dinner speech while standing within arms reach of British Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy in November. These interventions have raised eyebrows inside the British establishment, but so far the U.K. government has soaked up the punches.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Greece too, Kimberly Guilfoyle the former fianc\u00e9e of Trump\u2019s son Donald Jr., has charmed and bemused in equal measure. Despite goading the Greeks over the sale of the port of Piraeus to China, her relations with her hosts in Athens are, in her telling, exceptionally rosy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe see each other probably three or four times a week,\u201d she said of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis during an event last week. <\/p>\n

The same went for multiple government ministers, she added. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey always take the call. It doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s the weekend, they will come over if we meet at my house, they show up.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Esther Webber contributed reporting from London, Nektaria Stamouli from Athens and Victor Jack from Brussels. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The marching orders for every flashpoint involving U.S. ambassadors can be found in the lines of the National…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1213,26388,1789,7156,13489,1395,6217,2438,5293,32,34,35,2000,299,5187,2816,1105,71490,1450,2348,2190,714,6655,1215,2820,2452,13859,12337,5111,770,7697,24082,35417,48,811,21387,15,49,1781,2413],"class_list":["post-789371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-americas","tag-antisemitism","tag-belgium","tag-breaches","tag-bulgaria","tag-china","tag-david-lammy","tag-department","tag-diplomacy","tag-donald-trump","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-energy","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-politics","tag-far-right","tag-gordon-sondland","tag-greece","tag-history","tag-hungary","tag-joe-biden","tag-kyriakos-mitsotakis","tag-luxembourg","tag-marco-rubio","tag-media","tag-melania-trump","tag-missions","tag-parliament","tag-poland","tag-ports","tag-radar","tag-richard-grenell","tag-rights","tag-security","tag-state-of-the-union","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-viktor-orban","tag-wall-street"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}