At one point, (Trump) asked Macron, "Why don't you leave the E.U.?"

[steve2470]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trump-is-trying-to-destabilize-the-european-union/2018/06/28/729cb066-7b10-11e8-aeee-4d04c8ac6158_story.html

During a private meeting at the White House in late April, Trump was discussing trade with French President Emmanuel Macron. At one point, he asked Macron, “Why don’t you leave the E.U.?” and said that if France exited the union, Trump would offer it a bilateral trade deal with better terms than the E.U. as a whole gets from the United States, according to two European officials. The White House did not dispute the officials’ account, but declined to comment.

eta: As if this wasn't bad enough, here's more:

Other reports note that Trump recently told Group of Seven leaders that “NATO is as bad as NAFTA,” suggested to the Swedish prime minister that America should leave the NATO alliance , and launched gratuitous public attacks on German Chancellor Angela Merkel at her weakest moment. It’s a deepening trend that leads to an unavoidable conclusion: Trump doesn’t believe in the continued sanctity of the European Union and NATO, as well as the United States’ commitment to both.

[Still In Wisconsin]

1. Donald Trumpsky, Russian agent. n/t

[ginnyinWI]

5. That's exactly what Putin wants.

France leaves the EU and it falls apart. They were pouring millions into the campaign of the RW candidate that Macron defeated.

[vrguy]

2. Evelyn Salt

Is your name Evelyn Salt/Donald Trump, then you are a Russian spy..

[bdamomma]

3. tRump

is putin's pawn.

[Bettie]

4. I'd like to think that he understands that NATO and NAFTA are

entirely different types of things...but he probably doesn't.

[JI7]

6. They only came to this conclusion ? He was put there by Putin

He has never cared for rule of law, respect for others etc.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. Ask yourself. Why would a category 5 moron who doesn't even know who is

part of the EU be so interested in weakening it? What d does he get out of it? Whose interests is he really serving?

I realize that's not a question that needs to be asked here. Y'all know what's up. But most of the media doesn't want to say it out loud.

[Hav]

8. He's an idiot creating rifts everywhere

Regarding economic issues, trade with the US isn't the only or main aspect of the EU. It is, wait for it because this might be a shocker, trade within the EU.

[rurallib]

9. for one thing, why would any national leader trust anything Agent Orange said?

or why would anybody trust anything this guy does or says?