# Americans Have Always Been Hard-Nosed in Europe

https://mins.news/en/item/85116

- Bloomberg News, 2026-10-04 06:30 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-10-04/americans-have-always-been-hard-nosed-in-britain-and-europe?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6ac1f274aa92170001cc102d

> September was a dismal month for America’s would-be European allies. In Washington, Donald Trump gave China’s Xi Jinping an unusually lavish welcome, delivered a brutal “America First” speech at the United Nations and attacked Mark Carney’s suggestion that Canada might seek “associate membership” of the European Union, while the White House wages a trade war against Ottawa.