Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
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What is Charlie Angus's message to the United States at the NATO Summit?
I'm joined by Charlie Angus, member of the Canadian Parliament, who is part of a delegation right now in Brussels as part of the NATO parliamentary meetings, which came after the disastrous Munich conference for the United States and, frankly, for all of Europe, where J.D. Vance attacked the European democracies, where you had Pete Hegseth in Europe saying horrible things about Ukraine and Europe. So, Charlie, what's going on there? What's your message right now to the United States?
I think we've witnessed the most extraordinary week in European politics since the fall of the Berlin Wall. But that was a good story. What we've seen over the last week, beginning with the disaster in Munich with JD Vance, total attack on European democracy, and then followed up here at our NATO meetings with all of America's key allies,
How did European leaders react to JD Vance's actions in Munich?
that they flushed 75 years of diplomacy, hard work, commitment to the rule of law and international diplomacy. They just flushed it down the toilet while Trump And Vance and the mega morons here took the time to kneel down and kiss the feet of Vladimir Putin. Things will not go back to what they were. And Europe now is very much cast adrift from the United States. And certainly Canada is looking to where our place in the world is. And we're looking more to Europe now than to our closest neighbor.
Tell us what's going on behind the scenes. It still seems like, at least publicly, while we are seeing a lot of European leaders speak up against Trump and what happened, they're still trying to be diplomatic. But you're there right now in the inner circles. What's really happening, Charlie?
What are the consequences of Trump's policies for Canada and Europe?
What really surprised me from the get-go, I think the European leaders were shocked by what Vance had done in Munich because it was a real threat to democracy. It was a promotion of far-right extremism. And people in Europe have deep memories of what it means to suffer far-right extremism. So on the surface, there was this attempt to hope that the Americans were just bluffing and Trump was just being Trump. But it became really clear as the meetings went on. I was certainly very vocal in pushing for a clear position. And I think that that aided many of the allies started coming up to me. So Latvia, the Baltic states who are on Putin's front line are feeling right now that they're being sold down the river. We're seeing...
In Germany, the fears of the far right, we're seeing advances, interference in the Romanian election system. People understand that this is now a threat to their way of life. And as we are meeting, we actually have word coming out from Saudi Arabia, I mean, the most despicable anti-democratic place on the planet where we have a convicted felon and an indicted war criminal trying to carve up Ukraine. That was happening while we were supposed to be as NATO allies talking about a plan for Ukraine. So... This was a total slap in the face. And I don't think the mega morons who came here fully understand how much damage they have done to America on the world stage.
What incident occurred between Charlie Angus and a Republican member?
There was an altercation or I don't want to overstate it, but there was an incident between you and a Republican member of Congress who approached you and tried to, you know, he thought he was like joking around with you with your Canadian pin. What happened?
Well, you know, there's I've been meeting with the Democrats. The American Democrats have been, I mean, tiptoeing around. I think they're just they're shell shocked like everybody else. Some of these MAGA guys just thought they were just being funny. And one of them came up to me and I had my Canadian pin in. He had met me before and tried some really stupid jokes about Elon Musk that didn't go down very well. And he said, hey, Canada, and he went to touch my lapel. And I said, don't you ever touch the Canadian flag. And he said, whoa, whoa, I'm just joking. And I said... you'll die before you ever touch a Canadian flag. And I said, and we're not joking. And then everyone sort of backed off and then he vamoosed out of the room. So I don't even know what his name was, but you know, we're not like that as Canadians, but I thought you need to understand how far you pushed us. And you need to understand how dangerous it is that what you're doing right now in promoting Vladimir Putin to destroy Western democracy is
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is Charlie Angus's message to the United States at the NATO Summit?
0:00–0:56
2
How did European leaders react to JD Vance's actions in Munich?
0:56–1:52
3
What are the consequences of Trump's policies for Canada and Europe?
1:52–3:22
4
What incident occurred between Charlie Angus and a Republican member?
3:22–4:55
5
How does Charlie Angus view the threat to Western democracy?
4:55–9:31