President Donald Trump

…The chairman of the foreign affairs’ committee in the German parliament, Norbert Röttgen, told German public radio Monday that Trump’s thinking was a “dangerous novelty for Europe and the world.”

“Perhaps one could say that in reality in his thinking the West does not exist,” said Röttgen. “Whether the European Union is divided or contested doesn’t matter to him, whether NATO is there or not, doesn’t matter to him. It’s obsolete to him anyway.”…