Nattering About Trump Organization

There are layers upon layers of reasons leaders and luminaries are at Davos. Besides the countries they might run, there are various treaty organizations one might belong to as a representative of one’s country, and those people are there. There are also all the related muckety-mucks of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) looking to expand influence – or at least keep what they have in a challenging environment – and there’s always the business side of the house looking for new opportunities. Handshaking, new contacts, and schmoozling are time-honored ways of making things ‘happen.’

The various heads of European countries, along with their more important ministerial aides at the World Economic Forum (WEF), are pretty uniformly in a nose-out-of-joint posture with the Trump administration.

The pressure of tariffs, Greenland, pay your fair share, ugly at sea adventures, outright unsolicited criticism – these all sting tender European egos and sensibilities. They want so badly to just punch him in the nose, but they’d have to have a meeting and argue about it first.

Trump’s nose is safe, literally and figuratively, from any Euro blow.

But it has been fun to watch the tough-guy talk, posturing, and then the retreats as those second thoughts belatedly dawn.

MAYBE I SHOULDN’T HAVE SAID IT QUITE THAT WAY – I NEVER SAID THAT

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) folks and the overall Euro-defense hawk cabal have been especially vocal concerning Trump’s Greenland bodaciousness.

There has been an unceasing stream of verbose ‘We don’t need the United States,’ ‘We can do this ourselves,’ and ‘Why do we let that guy talk to us like that, MOMMY!’ challenges issuing forth and slipped into roundtable comments.

But then you see that the lights go on afterward, and there’s a craven effort to rewrite what was said. You know – in case the Bad Orange Man actually hears it and gets pissed off enough to specifically target the speaker.

One hilarious example was the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb. This is a gutbuster, and all caught on tape, as they say.

I’m sorry, did he not just say exactly that?https://t.co/mQZ5X9aqwV

— Sean (@poetsoup) January 21, 2026

REVERSE ALL ENGINES!!!

There is truth in Trump’s jibes.

President Trump to the leaders of Europe:

“Without us, right now you’d all be speaking German… or a little Japanese, perhaps.” pic.twitter.com/cYbjOHceFQ

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 21, 2026

Not only from the vanquishing of the common foe point either.

No one rebuilds a country not their own like…well.

Actually, no one on earth does it but the United States. And the Europe that was rebuilt after World War II and has flourished in spite of itself in relative peace alongside organizations like NATO has done so on US dollars.

There’s an interesting piece in the Daily Wire today that bolsters so many of Trump’s arguments, exposing the European bluster for what it is – empty noise.

Go ahead and boot us out – Europe will collapse under the weight of the cushy welfare state it’s erected. One that the American taxpayers who have footed the bill for so long enjoy nothing remotely like themselves.

…Polls show that while only about 15% of Americans favor leaving NATO, as many as 30% of European residents believe the United States should reduce or end its role in Europe’s defense. This is ironic. If the same Europeans who love to hold up their model social-welfare systems — especially their “free” health care — understood how much of those systems are underwritten by the American taxpayer, they might take a less belligerent view toward one of their primary health care providers.

…Take a look at the wealthiest EU nation — and the one with the most violent history with Russia — Germany. Germany currently spends roughly 2% of its €5 trillion GDP on defense, or about €100 billion annually. At the same time, it spends roughly ten to 12% of GDP on health care — around €500 billion per year. Estimates suggest that if American soldiers and airmen withdrew and Germany were left to fend for itself, Berlin would need to raise defense spending to as much as 4% of GDP. That means an additional €90–100 billion every year. That money has to come from somewhere. And since health care is the largest pool of discretionary spending (unless Berlin plans on raiding pensions), that is where it would most likely be found. A full American withdrawal would require cutting Germany’s health care system by at least 20%.

The consequences would be catastrophic. Growth spending would slow, wait times would balloon into rationing, co-pays and supplemental costs would rise, hospital consolidations would reduce access to emergency and specialized care, benefits would shrink, staffing shortages would worsen, and zero-cost access would disappear. Setting aside health outcomes, the social upheaval in a country accustomed to expansive care at minimal personal cost would be acute — and politically devastating for any party responsible.

And Germany is only one nation. If the entire EU had to raise defense spending to 4% to fill the void left by an American departure, it would require roughly €340 billion more per year — again, about 20% of total EU health care spending. Even partial offsets would place ten to 20% pressure on health budgets — unless already sky-high taxes rose further. Suddenly, the EU’s vaunted “free” health care system would be anything but.

Those numbers might well explain why the show of unity when Germany landed ‘troops’ in Greenland – 13 arrived on a commercial flight, because they also do not have enough military aviation assets to fly their own fellows over there…

“GERMANY IS DEPLOYING TROOPS TO GREENLAND”

They’re sending 13 men. https://t.co/kXF7IHBVU4 pic.twitter.com/1h9ByvgSq1

— Christian Heiens 🏛 (@ChristianHeiens) January 14, 2026

…they left just as quickly. 44 hours on deployment.

Must be a record.

🇩🇪🇬🇱 German troops have suddenly left Greenland from Nuuk Airport — Bild 😂

“The order to leave came from Berlin only early this morning. No explanation was given to the troops on the ground. Simply: Go back! All planned meetings had to be canceled immediately” — publication… pic.twitter.com/C0PiantGGQ

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) January 18, 2026

 …Simply: Go back! All planned meetings had to be canceled immediately” — publication writes  

Trump’s tariff threats do their thing?

Someone knows what side of the bread the butter is on.

5/ “After all, it is easy to pay for both guns and butter when someone else largely pays for the guns. It is quite another thing to foot the bill for both.”

— Jonathan Stuckey (@jstucks7) January 21, 2026

There are a few rational types trying to calm down the drama queens and explain what they stand to lose if the tantrums continue over something that they are being entirely irrational about. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said as much. I know I’m not very popular with you all right now’ as he calmly read them the riot act in public.

.@SecGenNATO Mark Rutte is absolutely correct: Thanks to President Trump, our European partners have stepped up and reached the two-percent defense spending target.

President Trump is the most consequential president of our lifetime. pic.twitter.com/85t3NTgIuw

— House Foreign Affairs Committee Majority (@HouseForeignGOP) January 21, 2026

Other conservative leaders who don’t have rose-colored glasses were a little more forthright and colorful in their assessment of vapid Euro-trash talk.

WHAT DO YOU WANT US TO DO? STORM MCDONALD’S?

“Storm McDonald’s” 😂😂 She’s a savage.

— Luca Taner (@LucaTaner) January 21, 2026

Meloni is a hoot but she’s right.

…Put more bluntly, NATO is not merely a security alliance — it is a massive American taxpayer-funded subsidy for Europe’s welfare state. That is the dirty little secret no one in Brussels wants to discuss. Every time a German walks into a “free” clinic or a Frenchman is wheeled into an operating room, roughly one euro in five is effectively paid by you and me. NATO — at least for its original Western democracies — needs the United States not to defend borders it could fund itself, but to prop up welfare systems already straining under their own weight.

…More the suckers us.

What little the Europeans have they can do would be as effective as storming McDonald’s to burn down their own town.

A whole 2%.

I know many of you criticize Trump. But do you really think that, without Trump, eight big economies in Europe—including Spain, Italy, and Belgium—and Canada would have reached the two-percent defense spending target in 2025? At the beginning of the year, they were at just 1.5 percent. Without Trump, this would never have happened. They are all at two percent now.

 Wow.

The ingrates would have such a hard time coughing up the money for butter if they had to pay for it.