In an hourlong address to the assembled world leaders and delegations, Trump told European leaders directly that they were destroying their own countries – and that they should be more like the US as he condemned their policies on immigration, green energy and political correctness. There was a barrage of claims about immigrants and questionable statistics about the prison populations in Germany and “beautiful Switzerland”. But then he turned his gaze to the failures of the United Nations and other world leaders – in which an aide forecast that he would denounce “globalists”. “You’re doing it because you want to be nice, you want to be politically correct,” he told them mockingly. Once again, it sounded very much like the administration was seeking to pick a fight with Europe.