The Man Who Mocked Trump

The German elite sneered when Trump warned about their reliance on Russian energy. Now, their failures are undeniable—and no one embodies them more than Christoph Heusgen.

We all remember the sneering German faces at the United Nations in 2018 when President Trump dared to warn that Germany was making a catastrophic mistake by becoming dependent on Russian energy. One of those faces belonged to Christoph Heusgen, Germany's UN ambassador at the time, who sat smirking, embodying the European elite's disdain for American pragmatism—and Americans in general. With his trademark bluntness, Trump laid out in absolute terms that Germany’s reliance on Russian gas would leave them at the Kremlin’s mercy. Heusgen and his fellow European elites dismissed the warning as absurd, even laughing at the idea that their energy policies were anything but brilliant.

Fast forward to today, and Germany's energy disaster has proven Trump right in the most humiliating way possible. The Nord Stream pipelines, once symbols of German-Russian cooperation, lie sabotaged at the bottom of the sea, leading to a crippling energy crisis. German industry, once the powerhouse of Europe, now buckles under skyrocketing energy costs, with companies like BASF and Siemens facing unprecedented challenges. And Heusgen? He has not learned a thing. In fact, he just suffered another public embarrassment—this time at the Munich Security Conference, where he broke down in tears after U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance stated a simple, undeniable fact: Germany does not have free speech.