Emily Maitlis

And that is, I think, something to really watch now, because this is a seismic change in politics from a very small country.

And this is all unfolding.

You're seeing this splintering of the MAGA movement in America, where some of the most vocal support for him from some of the most influential people in America has been going south.

People are saying, oh, you're on the wrong track here, mate.

You're doing things badly.

And I think that the levels of dissatisfaction

with Donald Trump.

And, you know, look, he's still an outsized voice.

He's still kind of ubiquitous on social media and all the rest of it.

I think that he's probably running a little bit scared now with this result in Hungary, with what has happened in Iran, that things are not quite going the way that he wants them to.

And for all the bluster,

The reality is that he's not influencing world events in the way that he wanted or he thought he would be able to do.

And that is a sort of humbling moment for him when he believes that he is kind of ubiquitous and can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants.

I think you're so right to kind of issue that.

word of caution and of course you know in the immediate aftermath of elections we all tend to go get carried away maybe with our own rhetoric or our own kind of whatever and sort of assume too much and yet the world is still spinning in broadly the same way as it was

A week ago.

But, you know, in journalism, you often do that thing.

Is this Keir Starmer's worst ever week?

Is this whatever politician's worst ever week?

You'd have to say, is this the best weekend that the European Union has had for a very, very long time?