'Europe is not heading in right direction,' says Trump

WASHINGTON

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized Europe’s political and economic trajectory during remarks at the World Economic Forum (WEF).

"I love Europe, and I want to see Europe go good, but it's not heading in the right direction," Trump said at the WEF in Davos, Switzerland.

He said that certain places in Europe are "not even recognizable, frankly, anymore, they're not recognizable."

Trump framed his critique around what he described as long-standing policy choices embraced by governments in Washington and European capitals alike.

According to Trump, recent decades had produced a “conventional wisdom” that economic growth depended on ever-expanding government spending, large-scale migration, and reliance on foreign imports.

"The consensus was that so called Dirty Jobs and heavy industries should be sent elsewhere, that affordable energy should be replaced by the green new scam, and that countries could be propped up by importing new and entirely different populations from far away lands," he said.