EU Head Juncker Threatens to Break Up U.S. Over Trump's Brexit Support

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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker may not be tough enough to fight the barbarians at the gate, but he had some fighting words for President Donald Trump on Thursday.

That's right, the Luxembourgish multiculturalist threatened to break-up the United States in retaliation for Trump's support for Brexit. The Express UK provides the video above and following summary: 

In an extraordinary speech the EU Commission president said he would push for Ohio and Texas to split from the rest of America if the Republican president does not change his tune and become more supportive of the EU. [...]

They are by far the most outspoken intervention any senior EU figure has made about Mr Trump and are likely to dismay some European leaders who were hoping to seek a policy of rapprochement with their most important ally. 

Speaking at the centre-right European People Party’s (EPP) annual conference in Malta this afternoon, the EU Commission boss did not hold back in his disdain for the White House chief’s eurosceptic views.  [...]  Mr Juncker's comments did not appear to be made in jest and were delivered in a serious tone, although one journalist did report some "chuckles" in the audience and hinted the EU boss may have been joking. The remarks came in the middle of an angry speech in which the top eurocrat railed widely against critics of the EU Commission. 

Best of all, Juncker never mentioned Britain once during remarks about... Brexit. He singled out Trump alone. 

"Brexit isn’t the end," a ham-fisted Juncker declared. "A lot of people would like it that way, even people on another continent where the newly elected US President was happy that the Brexit was taking place and has asked other countries to do the same."

"If he [Trump] goes on like that I am going to promote the independence of Ohio and Austin, Texas in the US."

Either he's particularly poor at telling jokes or Juncker is simply a fool. Either way, you can file his "threat" under things that elicit a genuine "LOL."

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