Europe is ‘weak, decaying’ – Trump says as rift deepens

US President Donald Trump deepened his rift with Europe in an interview with Politico published Tuesday, calling the continent “weak” and decaying” over immigration and Ukraine.Trump doubled down on his extraordinary recent criticisms of a region that Washington has long counted as a key ally, recycling far-right tropes about civilizational decline in Europe.“Most European nations, they’re, they’re decaying. They’re decaying,” Trump told Politico