{"id":27749,"date":"2025-05-16T16:42:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T16:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27749"},"modified":"2025-05-16T16:42:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T16:42:54","slug":"trump-sparks-fury-with-bold-claim-that-europe-would-speak-a-little-japanese-if-it-wasnt-for-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27749","title":{"rendered":"Trump sparks fury with bold claim that Europe would speak &#8216;a little Japanese&#8217; if it wasn\u2019t for the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\"><strong>Donald Trump has hit out at Europe for celebrating the end of World War Two.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Despite ruling April 2 &#8216;Liberation Day&#8217; for the\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/us-news\">US<\/a>\u00a0in his bid to &#8216;Make America Great Again&#8217;,\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/donald-trump\">Trump<\/a>\u00a0bizarrely called the US\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/news\/politics\/donald-trump-calls-america-stupid-country-258308-20250515\">a &#8216;stupid country&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">And he hasn&#8217;t just decided to offend Americans either, but has since spoken out about\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/world-news\">Europe<\/a>\u00a0too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Yesterday (May 15), Trump addressed US troops stationed in Qatar as part of his trip to the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">He said: &#8220;A week ago, May 8, I call up a certain country and they say, &#8216;Oh we&#8217;re celebrating the victory of\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/world-war-2\/pages\/1\">World War Two<\/a>\u00a0today&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;And I say, &#8216;Oh okay&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Trumps&#8217; speech got even more outrageous from then on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Trump\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Nexttmars\/status\/1923139036069208454\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continued<\/a>: &#8220;I speak to one of the presidents or prime ministers or whatever. And they were so busy, &#8216;Oh yes we&#8217;re celebrating the victory of WW2&#8217;. And I speak to another one and they&#8217;re celebrating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;And the fact is\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/russia\">Russia<\/a>\u00a0was celebrating,\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/france\">France<\/a>\u00a0was celebrating, everyone but us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;And we\u2019re the ones that won the war. We won the war and they help, but without us they don\u2019t win the war, we&#8217;re all speaking German &#8211; without us they&#8217;re speaking German and maybe a little Japanese too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Oh and then he decided to single out France too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image_articleImage__eyzAn\">\n<div class=\"article-image_imageWrapper__ANtPE\">\n<div class=\"resizable-image_wrapper__LRQlr\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-image_image__XvzgU\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=3840&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/bltc812a0ec891fb724\/68270d33065f8f2e7b0515a4\/trump.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 33vw, (max-width: 768px) 50vw, (max-width: 1024px) 50vw, 33vw\" 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3840w\" alt=\"Prime ministers, presidents, potato, potato (Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" data-nimg=\"fill\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><cite class=\"image-credit_imageCredit__YMlqS\">Prime ministers, presidents, potato, potato (Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">He added, as\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/05\/16\/trump-singles-out-france-over-wwii-victory-celebrations-as-he-addresses-us-troops-statione\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quoted<\/a>\u00a0by Euro News: &#8220;I think we did a little more to win the war than France did. Now, we love France, right? But I think we did a little more to win the war than France. Do we agree? I don&#8217;t want to be a wise guy, but when Hitler made a speech at the Eiffel Tower, I would say that wasn&#8217;t exactly ideal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Imitating French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s accent, Trump continued: &#8220;&#8216;Donald, we are celebrating our victory over the Germans&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;I said, &#8216;What the hell?&#8217; Every country I&#8217;ve spoken to in the last week is celebrating the war but us. Isn&#8217;t that terrible?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Trump resolved: &#8220;We won the war and we&#8217;re the only ones who didn&#8217;t celebrate, so what I did, is I got my crack staff over there and we did it every time we had May 8 and we also have the date in November, that sacred date in November for World War One, because we won that war too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Subsequently, not only May 8 but November 11 will be known as &#8216;Victory Day for World War I&#8217; &#8211; rather than Veteran&#8217;s Day, People\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/donald-trump-mocks-europe-for-celebrating-the-end-of-wwii-11735657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">adds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">And it&#8217;s not taken long for people to weigh in.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 Donald Trump on Victory Day for WWII:<\/p>\n<p>Russia was celebrating.<br \/>\nFrance was celebrating.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody was celebrating but us \u2014 and we&#8217;re the ones that won the war!<\/p>\n<p>They helped, but without us, they&#8217;re speaking German.<br \/>\nMaybe a little Japanese, too. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y67qzOM4Tm\">pic.twitter.com\/y67qzOM4Tm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 nextmars (@Nexttmars) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nexttmars\/status\/1923139036069208454?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">One Twitter user said: &#8220;And this is why Europe wants nothing to do with the US.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;Without France, Americans would still be drinking Her Britannic Majesty&#8217;s tea,&#8221; another added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">A third simple resolved: &#8220;Trump is a moron.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Donald Trump has hit out at Europe for celebrating the end of World War Two. 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