How Trump’s Meeting Showed Europe Is Irrelevant

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Trump, Russia, Europe, Ukraine, lots of meetings. What happened? Well, we got lots of opinions, that’s for sure. If you haven’t noticed, depending on what media outlet you follow, you’re gonna get some form of speculation. We don’t do that. we had body language experts look at this and you know.

Levitt came out and she looked like scared or there was a problem there and the Trump lunch was canceled. What does that mean? again, it’s like watching people analyzing like the injury report before a football game. They don’t know crap. They don’t. But again, they’re there to come up.

ideas and opinions that they can talk about on TV. So maybe you will tune in and watch.

Don’t do that. Don’t do that. Listen, I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know what took place at any of those meetings. I haven’t gotten a transcript of what’s going on. What I do know is that every day I pray that the war will end, that the killing will stop. That’s what I know. That’s what I know. That’s all I can report on when it comes to these meetings at this point in time.

What I did see though, and I’m gonna report on something that nobody is reporting on. When you got Donald Trump sitting behind the desk, sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office, and man man, dude, don’t, Trump, mean, honestly, you need a better interior decorator, man.

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I mean, it’s just like if you know, it’s like your interior decorator was like a cross between I don’t know, Saddam Hussein and Liberace. What did you do, man? Tone down the gold, brother, please. Anyway, put that aside. Was Donald Trump sitting there and you had Europe like sitting in like a semicircle sitting in chairs around the desk? The one

Prime Minister, the one European that was there that I’m actually a big fan of, is Georgia Maloney from Italy. She’s sitting there, leaned back, arms crossed, she’s like, whatever. The rest of them, the rest of them, not so much. You know what’s interesting, they had this meeting, is who wasn’t there? Countries that actually are growing, countries that are,

actually growing, turning their economies around at this point in time. Poland, killing it. Poland killing it, which also also happens to have one of the best special forces in the entire world. Why you take a look at how well their markets are doing? Even Greece, talking about the amount of money that they spend on their military. I know that they’re a small country, but, you know, take a look at their market over the course of the year. How well have they done? Eastern Europe, think Hungary.

These are the countries that quite frankly they’re the ones that are be most affected. Why are they not there? it’s the usual. It’s the ones that are still trying to stay relevant. Okay, you’re talking France, you’re talking the UK, you’re talking Germany. Okay, yeah, the same Germany that didn’t have enough guns to train with the troops so they had to use wooden replicas. Please. Okay, cut it out.

It’s nonsense. UK, and the funny thing is, that the UK actually thinks that they, they actually think that they matter. They actually think that they matter. This Keir Starmer guy, I mean, you voted for this guy?

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Your country is in the toilet. You have people jumping ship. We talked about this yesterday on the podcast, the amount of wealthy people, millionaires that are, they’re leaving the country like crazy. And where they going? They’re going to UAE, they’re going to United States, they’re going to Italy, they’re going to Greece. They want out. They don’t want to be there. Germany, yeah, we’ll shut down all of our nuclear power plants.

We’ll shut down all of our nuclear power plants and then we’re gonna rely on Russia for energy and our energy costs are through the roof and you’re a manufacturing economy and how are you gonna be a manufacturing economy if you don’t have great energy prices? France, France, yeah, they wanna have a system, they wanna put a system in place in France where the government is gonna control, is gonna control your air conditioning.

Yeah, yeah, they’re telling people only one air conditioner in the house window air conditioner and only air condition one room and don’t air condition below 78. I mean, yeah, below 78 degrees. It’s 2025. Are you serious?

Anyway, this is, most people, this is the state of most of Europe. Okay. They got nothing. But that’s not true. I shouldn’t put it that way. Again, they got a lot of artisan type of businesses there, which are great. I’ve often described Europe as kind of like a Disney world for adults. One big

huge museum. It’s wonderful. It’s beautiful. Great for tourism.

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But what exactly else do you do?

What else do you do? What are you leading? Can you give me some of your leading tech companies over there? Are you guys doing anything when it comes to AI?

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Again, yeah, it’s sitting there. It made it perfectly clear. They were like, you know, they were like the kids at daddy’s desk.

And they know it. They don’t like it, but they know it. There was a story the other day. America’s stock market dominance is an emergency for Europe. Some of Europe’s most notable companies are moving to the United States, deepening the region’s economic woes. The London Stock Exchange overhauled the ceremony for welcoming new companies to its ranks last year, adding confetti cannons, slick videos, and cinematic music.

It has mostly been used for such events as product launches and anniversaries. So far this year, six companies have gone public in the UK, raising $208 million.

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We bring in more money at Markowski Investments than that over a short period of time. That’s it. That’s your deal making in the UK. Wow. Initial public offerings in continental Europe have been cut in half. Cut in half. Not even close. mean, again.

Where are we here in the United States? Over 40 billion so far this year. And not to mention some of the companies, the, I’m call them tech stars, know, the Swedish buy now pay later company. And I don’t like this company at all. I don’t like what it stands for. Klarna, we make fun of it all the time. And British chip designer, Arm. Are they listing over in Europe? No, they’re listing at the New York Stock Exchange.

However, I’m not spiking a football by any stretch of the imagination over this, because guess what? Guess what? We’re heading in the same direction they are right now. And again, we have to be aware of that.

Again, these are the things that I come up with. Again, I’m not going to spend, like I said, I don’t know what’s going to happen in that meeting. don’t know what, you know, Trump said, okay, maybe we’re going to have some, we’re going to have a security guarantee. Maybe we’re going to use our, you know, no fly zone, whatever it may be. We’re not going to put troops there. All that stuff, again, I don’t know. Because again, it might change on any given day. But what I saw there is basically the state of the world, but as well, okay.

You got to keep working to stay on top. And when I see stories now where it’s as fewer young people are that are meeting five milestones as typically associated with adulthood, again, this doesn’t surprise me. More young adults between the ages 25 and 34 facing economic barriers compared with previous generations. Changes in milestones of adult, almost half of all adults in 1975.

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had reached four milestones associated with adulthood. Moving out of one’s parents’ home, getting a job, getting married, and having a child between the ages of 25 and 34. That has changed dramatically. And again, we’ve gotten quite expensive here. We did untold damage to kids telling them to go out and borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars to get an overpriced education without explaining them to the concept of return on investment.

This is stuff that we have to work through or maybe at some point in time we’ll be sitting around the resolute desk of, I don’t know, Xi Jinping. Watchdogonwallstreet.com.