{"id":99559,"date":"2025-07-28T14:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/99559\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T14:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:21:14","slug":"trump-ate-von-der-leyen-for-breakfast-orban-grumbles-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/99559\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump ate von der Leyen for breakfast, Orb\u00e1n grumbles \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a deal that President Donald Trump made with Ursula von der Leyen. It was Donald Trump eating Ursula von der Leyen for breakfast,\u201d Orb\u00e1n <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/zoltanspox\/status\/1949746782352617838\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">fumed Monday morning<\/a> on his podcast. The Hungarian prime minister is both a longtime critic of Brussels and its leadership and a vocal supporter of Trump and his MAGA agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Orb\u00e1n added that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/what-is-and-isnt-included-in-the-uk-us-trade-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the U.S.-U.K. deal<\/a> was much better than the one the EU got. Hungarian Foreign Minister P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FM_Szijjarto\/status\/1949756252600623349\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote Monday on X<\/a> that the deal is \u201canother sign that Brussels needs new leadership.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other Euroskeptics \u2014 such as German far-right <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Alice_Weidel\/status\/1949732322800030063\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">AfD party leader Alice Weidel<\/a> and French <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLP_officiel\/status\/1949543453060186459\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen<\/a> \u2014 have also slammed the deal, but they aren\u2019t alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a dark day when an alliance of free peoples, united to assert their values and defend their interests, resigns itself to submission,\u201d centrist French Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bayrou\/status\/1949749114436194782?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1949749114436194782%7Ctwgr%5E73288f0645cfedad4eb1c14ceb1b90f670906f3f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bfmtv.com%2Feconomie%2Fun-jour-sombre-francois-bayrou-evoque-une-soumission-apres-l-accord-entre-l-ue-et-les-etats-unis-sur-les-droits-de-douane_AN-202507280192.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote on X<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, many in Europe welcomed Sunday&#8217;s deal and the avoidance of a bigger trade war, hoping it would bring about long-awaited trade stability.<\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bundesregierung.de\/breg-de\/aktuelles\/pressemitteilungen\/bundeskanzler-friedrich-merz-erklaert-zur-einigung-von-kommissionspraesidentin-ursula-von-der-leyen-und-praesident-donald-trump-in-den-eu-us-verhandlungen--2370770\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said in a statement<\/a> that a no-deal scenario would have hit Germany harder, while Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called the deal \u201csustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a deal that President Donald Trump made with Ursula von der Leyen. It was Donald Trump&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":99560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[65124,69,5495,8705,2850,20154,50,2175,130,8304,67,2856,16815,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-99559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-alice-weidel","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-energy","11":"tag-francois-bayrou","12":"tag-hungary","13":"tag-imports","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-tariffs","16":"tag-trade","17":"tag-trade-war","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","20":"tag-viktor-orban","21":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114931307902238653","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}