Donald Trump has reached a low-point among allies overseas. (Photo: NYI Collage)
Donald Trump brags about his standing overseas, but the most steadfast U.S. allies are distancing themselves from the president both out of disrespect and fear he’s selling out Europe to Russia.
European leaders increasingly believe the real danger to world peace lives in the White House.
Trump’s erratic behavior, his militant threats against Canada, Denmark and Venezuela and his seemingly unexplainable obesience to Russian President Vladimir Putin are unnerving allies.
European public perceptions of the United States have declined in the wake of Trump’s second term.
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A stunning 58 percent of Britons, French, Italians, and Spaniards have a very unfavorable opinion of Trump, and 16 percent a somewhat unfavorable opinion. Just two in 10 (19%) harbor a favorable opinion, according to a YouGov survey between Feb. 25 and March 4, 2025,
The reasons ranged from questions about Trump’s commitment to democracy, to US policy reversals in the Russia-Ukraine War, and US-imposed economic sanctions.
Among 12 European leaders ranked from one to ten based on trust, Trump finished just ahead of Putin at the bottom of the list, and 51 percent see him as an enemy of Europe.
Trump also receives mostly negative ratings in a new Pew Research Center survey of 24 nations. More than half in 19 of these countries say they lack confidence in Trump’s leadership of world affairs.
Donald Trump is held in low esteem in Europe, just above Vladimir Putin. (You/Gov poll).
In a foreboding speech, French senator Claude Malhuret this week raised the spectre of Trump’s betrayal in much the same way that Winston Churchill warned about Hitler in the days before World War II.
“Those who are not yet convinced that Trump is Putin’s servant should reflect on recent events,” he said. “At best Europe is alone, at worst, it faces two enemies: Russia and Trumpism.
Pew Research Center Survey of Trump favorability among 24 countries.
“Today’s urgency can be summed up in one simple sentence; if Ukraine loses the war, Europe will find itself in direction confrontation with Russia, and under the worst possible conditions.”
Denmark also became the latest stauch American ally to raise serious concerns last week.
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The nation’s military intelligence annual threat assessment states for the first time that American foreign policy is threatenting Denmark’s security.
Under Trump, the United States is acting like a hostile power, using its economic weight, tariff threats and even military force to bully and coerce European allies.
Among other ramifications, the Danish government last summer protested the Trump administration’s alleged covert activities to undermine Danish authority in Greenland.
While Denmark may occupy a second-row seat in U.S. relations overseas, the nation’s first line allies, Canada and Great Britain are pulling back out of concern over Trump’s actions.
Last month, CNN reported that the United Kingdom has ended its long-running information sharing with the United States about suspected Caribbean drug trafficking. where it’s long had economic and political ties.
The British government is concerned that Trump administration attacks on alleged drug boats off Venezuela’s coast are illegal. It also views them as potentially damaging to its relations with British territories in the region.
The rift between the US and Britain is particularly significant, because they are members of the “Five Eyes” intelligence sharing group founded after World War II.
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Canada has also curtialed information sharing to avoid being seen as complicit in war crimes. For the record, the administration insists the unprovoked attacks are legal, both domestically and under international law.
If there was any doubt where the Trump administration’s sympathies lie, they were dispelled by the release of its new National Security Strategy report.
The report skirts any criticism of Russia’s Ukraine invasion and only tangentially refers to the threat posed by China. Shockingly, it openly supports right-wing extremist European political parties.
“There was a time, not so long ago, when America was the leader of the free world,” writers former New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, in a substack column.
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“It was the first among equals within an alliance of nations bound together by shared values — above all a commitment to democracy and civil liberties.
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“MAGA, however, doesn’t want to be part of that world. In fact, it doesn’t want a world of democracy, civil liberties and the rule of law to exist,” he continues.
“The Trump administration has become especially hostile to Europe, precisely because the Europeans are trying to hold on to the values MAGA is trying to destroy at home.”
He notes that Europeans are alarmed by “Putin sympathizers” and “conspiracy theorists” in the administration lke Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence.
The extent of the administration’s cooperation with Putin, or at least by those in his administration, was illustrateed by a leaked conversation between respective foreign policy advisers Steve Witkoff and Yuri Ushakov.
The telephone call revealed that Witkoff had given Ushakov advice on how to flatter and appeal to Trump to undermine a planned visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to a transcript of the call published by Bloomberg News.
Another report in The Wall Street Journal provided more context to Trump’s real intentions in seeking a Russia-Ukraine peace deal.
Secret appendices to the deal would release $200 billion in frozen Russia assets so U.S. banks and corporations — largely Trump cronies and donors — could take the lead on reconstruction projects in Ukraine, The Journal reported.
“Trump’s foreign policy is not about securing the safety and well-being of the United States,” Krugman wrote.
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“It’s about playing to Trump’s ego, about appealing to his incessant psychodrama of domination and sycophancy. Anyone who believes otherwise is living in La-La-Land.”
It would at least be understandable if Trump’s foreign policy were driven by greed and ego. That’s totally fitting with his narcissistic personality.
But overshadowing Trump’s motives are persistent reports that he has somehow been compromised by Putin, whether it’s dangling the prospect of a Trump Tower in Moscow or damning sexual and financial kompromat.
Jeffrey Epstein’s Russian connection — and, thus, Trump’s — is one of the upshots of the late pedophile’s scandal that has received very little attention in the United States.
In Europe however, the view is widely shared among Eastern European experts that the Russians actually do have damning “kompromat” on the President of the United States.
The convicted sex-trafficker worked directly with Russia’s intelligence service, the FSB, according to emails released by the Epstein estate and the House Oversight Committee.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a leader of the Russian opposition and former Putin political prisoner, provided the context to those emails in a series of social media posts.
“The timing is crucial here, in 2014-2015, right after Crimea, right after the first sanctions, Putin’s regime desperately needed Western business participation at Russian events to maintain any semblance of legitimacy. Epstein had access to exactly those people.
“In July of 2015, a Russian model named Guzel Ganieva is trying to blackmail a group of powerful businessmen in NYC.”
Epstein reached out and asked for help from FSB agent Sergei Belyakov who as assigned to cultivate and recruit supporters among economic elites.
“Within 72 hours, [Epstein] receives back a comprehensive intelligence profile.
“This was more than an advice from a friend: Belyakov detailed the mode’s summer earnings ($100,000), her operational methods (he called them ‘hard stories’ with clients), her vulnerabilities [and] suggested that blocking her US entry would entirely destroy her escort business.
“Epstein’s end of the deal was recruiting Western elites to Putin’s forums. He promised to bring LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Microsoft’s Nathan Myhrvold, billionaire Thomas Pritzker, former Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Some of them actually showed up.”
At an economic forum in St. Petersburg, multiple sources confirmed that Belyakov hired modeling agencies to openly worked with forum organizers to provide escort services. The after-hours arrangements created perfect conditions for honey traps,” Khodorkovsky writes.
There is a possibility Epstein had dirt on all of them.
Hoffman’s ties to Epstein were extensively documented in files released in 2024 and 2025, including emails and flight records. He previously acknowledged visiting Epstein’s private island, Little St. James, but stated the relationship was focused on fundraising for MIT.
Myhrvold was named in flight logs released in late 2025. He was also listed as a “friend” in a “birthday book” prepared for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003, which included bis personal letter signed by Myhrvold. Trump also provided a birthday letter for the book.
Pritzker, the executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels, appeared in documents released as part of the unsealing of files from a 2015 civil lawsuit filed by Epstein vicitm Virginia Giuffre.
Giuffre testified under oath that she was trafficked to Pritzker by Epstein and that Pritzker sexually abused her. He denied any wrongdoing or sexual contact with her.
In emails, Epstein described Pritzker as being “like family.”
Barak appears frequently in Epstein’s files, including emails and flight records. Documents show he was a regular guest at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse between 2013 and 2017.
Barak has acknowledged meeting Epstein but maintains that he never participated in any illegal activities.
“Epstein and Belyakov stayed in regular contact. They coordinated on recruiting Western business leaders, arranged escort operations, handled blackmail situations,” according to the Russian activist.
Epstein often bragged that he had extensive dirt on Trump as well and had the power to take him down.
Epstein claimed in an email that Trump “knew about the girls” and that a victim had spent “hours at my house” with Trump. Epstein in a separate email also claimed he had information that could “take down” Trump.
In a June 2018 email, roughly a month before the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki, Epstein suggested to Thorbjørn Jagland, then head of the Council of Europe, that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov should seek his “insight on talking to [Trump].”
Epstein claimed he had previously counseled Russia’s late UN Ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, on understanding Trump’s psyche. The email suggests Epstein may have conveyed Trump’s involvement with underage girls compromising the President.
Epstein’s Russian ties, and Belyakov’s use of paid escorts to concoct “honey pots” to entrap foreign business leaders, lends credence to the 2016 Steele Dossier report about Trump’s activities during a 2013 visit to Russia.
The Dossier, actually a series of memos prepared by former British spy Christopher Steele, alleges Trump was videoed watching two escorts urinating on a bed in the Ritz Carlton Hotel presidential suite where the Obamas had slept during their stay in Moscow.
Trump was in Moscow for the Miss Universe Pageant, but the report has never been confirmed, and Trump has called it a “hoax.”
However, Alnur Mussayev, the former chief at the State Security Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan during its time as a Soviet satellite has written that the kompromat file on Trump is “comprehensive.”
The former Kazakh intelligence officer claims it is “extensive, meticulously documented, and designed not to destroy Trump—but to control him.”
The files allegedly include details of Trump’s sexual crimes and criminal money laundering from Russia, Kazakhstan and other former Soviet republics.
With all Epstein files in the government possession set to be released on Friday (Dec. 19) new light may be shed on Trump’s relationship with Epstein, Russia and Putin.
It remains to be seen, however, if Trump can or has the inclination to repair the nation’s relations with its most important allies.