The steps back, although slight, are notable considering how Europe’s right-leaning figures have previously celebrated sharing ideological ties with Trump. When the now-embattled President returned to the White House in January 2025, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Santiago Abascal, the leader of Spain's far-right Vox party, were among the European lawmakers invited to his Inauguration Day.
"Trump had promised his voters he would not pursue an interventionist foreign policy," Weidel told Germany’s T-online outlet on Wednesday. "This broken campaign promise has now come back to haunt the Republicans."
The commentary marked a shift in tone for a party that has often welcomed the support of the Trump Administration, both overtly and covertly. Weidel met with Vice President J.D. Vance in February 2025, just days before the German election. During that trip, Vance spoke at the Munich Security Conference and took time out of his speech to criticize what is known as the “firewall” approach in Germany—the agreement among other political parties that they will not work with the AfD. In another show of support, billionaire Elon Musk, while heading the Trump Administration’s now-defunct Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), made a virtual appearance at an AfD campaign event. After the AfD won a state election in September, Trump, who has long accused European countries of holding weak immigration policies, remarked: “The populist party in Germany just had a really big night. They finally got tired of the absolutely horrible immigration rules and regulations, which have hurt Germany.”
A political shift from Europe
“What is certain is that Donald Trump's second term differs quite significantly, in its philosophy and foreign policy, from his first, during which his political ambition was to withdraw the United States from major global conflicts,” he said.
“After two years of catastrophic economic management, [Trump’s] international standing is gone. It's practically like the far-right [is] losing their global leader,” he says, adding that Trump’s loss is likely to be seen as “a gift to all liberals.”
“I'm not in Michigan to analyze an election, I'm in Ciudad Real. And considering the November 29th elections, I couldn't care less about what happens in other countries,” he told reporters.
When approached about how Europe's far-right leaders have reacted to the GOP's midterm losses, White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly told TIME: “President Trump has effectively restored American strength on the global stage and strengthened relationships with world leaders.”
That cooperation has spanned years, ranging from Trump ally Steve Bannon’s efforts to bolster right-wing parties in Europe to the Trump Administration’s antagonistic posture toward Europe’s mainstream political parties and leaders. Trump’s influence has also extended to political campaigns, with his ally in Britain, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, staging MAGA-style rallies during last year’s local elections in England.
The growing distance between Trump and some of his far-right European allies is not entirely new.
“It's been clear to different persuasions of the far-right in the E.U. that association with the Trump brand, the MAGA brand, is an electoral liability,” he says. “That happened in the aftermath of Trump's Greenland pronouncements, and the aftermath of the war in Iran, and the impact that's having on cost-of-living issues, which is a key political issue.”
Beyond differences over foreign policy. Meloni, once dubbed Europe’s “Trump Whisperer,” also clashed with the President in June after he said she had “begged” for a photo with him at the G7 Summit—a claim Meloni said was “completely fabricated.”
The divide over Trump’s war with Iran
Matteo Salvini, Italy’s deputy Prime Minister and leader of the far-right League party, said he hoped the Republicans’ midterm losses would be interpreted as a halt “to interventionism around the world.” He added: “The American result was influenced above all by the wars, international tensions and the increase in the cost of living, the consequences of which fall directly on families.”
While these tensions had been building for months, Rahman argues that the midterm results have further “tarnished the MAGA brand.”
Trump hailed far-right figure Marine Le Pen as a “conservative voice” amid the protests in France last month. Le Pen was convicted for misusing E.U. funds last year. An appeals court upheld the conviction in July, but shortened her sentence, clearing the path for her to run in the April 2027 presidential election. She is currently leading in polls ahead of the high-stakes race. When asked if he plans to endorse Le Pen, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office: "Well, I don't know her, I haven't met her. But I thought she was badly treated. It would look like a weaponization to me.”
But will the U.S. presence be so sought after in Europe moving forward? “I think the conclusion, given the chaos, the turbulence, and incompetence of the Administration, is actually that MAGA and Trump are a liability, and if there is any association, it is better to be covert, not overt,” argues Rahman.
"I don't think they will radically distance themselves from Trump or anything like this,” he says. “But I think they will cool down the kind of links between the U.S. and their own parties and countries, at least [for] the moment.”
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