WAR OF THE DONALDS: Trump DEATH STARE at Tusk as he meets EU bigwig in Brussels ‘hellhole’
DONALD Trump and European Union heads have failed to agree on issues from Russia to trade at tense meetings in Brussels – in Trump’s first visit since he labelled it a “hellhole”.
By ZOIE O’BRIEN
Express.co.uk
Thu, May 25, 2017
The US leader was led in by European Council President Donald Tusk ahead of a summit of NATO leaders at the military alliance’s headquarters .
Following an initial round of talks with President Trump, Donald Tusk said they seem to have “differing positions” on dealing Putin, climate change and global trade.
Tusk said in a televised statement the two leaders agreed on countering militant violence and on relations with Ukraine.
He said: “We discussed foreign policy, security, climate and trade relations,” Tusk said in Brussels after he and EU chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker met Trump for an hour.
“My feeling is that we agreed on many areas, first and foremost on counter-terrorism.”
Trump, on the fourth leg of his first foreign trip since taking office also met European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
The trio posed for cameras before making small talk about Trump’s trip.
Mr Juncker said he “had been following” Trump’s travels around the Middle East with Mr Tusk saying the greeting in Saudi Arabia was “spectacular”.
Meanwhile friends Angela Merkel, the German chancellor and former US president Obama appeared together at a talk called ‘Being Involved in Democracy: Taking on Responsibility Locally and Globally’ at Brandenburg Gate.
After Tusk and Juncker, it was French president Emmanuel Macron’s turn to try and turn the President to his way of thinking.
Mr Macron hopes to prevent Trump from walking out on the Paris accord on climate change.
But the meeting appeared to get off to an awkward start.
Each man gripped each other’s right hand so firmly that their knuckles turned white and their jaws seemed to clench.
Images from the photo session at the US ambassador’s residence in Brussels showed Trump finally giving up, his fingers loosened while Macron is still holding on tightly.
The President of the United States has been cryptic over his true feelings on the EU, bouncing between calling it a “vehicle for Germany” and a “wonderful institution”.
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