David Rennie

the whole EU-US trade deal was probably on ice, and there was going to be quite a unified pushback.

And so as ever, because nothing is neat and tidy in the kind of the universe that we now live in, Trump has climbed down.

That's a huge relief for Denmark.

But actually, Europe now has a problem in terms of unity, because there will undoubtedly be European countries going, okay,

crisis over, let's not pick a trade war with this guy.

He's not going to tariff, you know, a group of us.

So do we really want to pick a larger fight about the trade deal that was struck with him last year?

And so there is, you know, when the pressure goes off, the unity tends to crumble.

So there's always a cloud to every silver lining in Trump world, right?

So if it turns out to be, you know, we open the papers the next, you know, the next two days and we see kind of TikToks where people are saying, you know, it was the markets crashing, people made phone calls, then maybe that European threat to start hitting Trump tariffs with counter tariffs from Europe, you know, $93 billion more or less of retaliatory tariffs, maybe that did the trick.

But not just because I'm sitting in London and I'm a Brit and therefore in my heart part of Europe, even if we left, but because I'm a Brit and therefore in my heart part of

I have a lot of sympathy for European leaders.

And actually, I have sympathy for the British government too, because it's all very well to say, you know, we should just tell Donald Trump where to get off.

And I can tell you, there are plenty of ordinary British people I speak to who know what I do for a living.

And when, you know, when we talk about Trump, they're like, why don't we just tell the guy to back off and, you know, just get stuffed and to use the kind of technical term.

The problem is that Britain, along with several other European countries, our defence is absolutely dependent on the United States for years to come.

And we saw the British Prime Minister on Monday this week give a press briefing about Greenland, where he was pretty tough on Greenland.

But then he said, and his face betrayed his kind of deep, deep, deep kind of anxiety, stroke, despair.

He said, I need to remind people, we need a good relationship with America to look after our defense.

We're now into a totally, totally new and really frightening world for Europe.