Luxembourg Has Had Enough of Trump
The European diplomat who called the president a “pyromaniac” isn’t sorry to see him leave office.
Lucky are the foreign ministers of very small, very consensus-driven countries, for those who play their cards right sometimes get to hold office for many years. One of the luckiest card players out there is Jean Asselborn, the amusing polyglot who has been the foreign minister of Luxembourg since 2004. Although his country is tiny (population 613,000), the longevity of Luxembourg’s top diplomat gives him the confidence to say what he thinks—even if it is, well, . Last week, following the insurrection in Washington, D.C., Asselborn did, his country’s public broadcaster. “A political pyromaniac who should be sent to criminal court. He’s a person who was elected democratically but who isn't interested in democracy in the slightest.”
