MUNICH, Germany (PNN) - February 16, 2025 - A German diplomat once best known for laughing at President Donald J. Trump’s warning that Germany’s dependence on Russian energy would become a problem was unable to finish his speech at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) as he apparently found the implications of emissary Vice President J.D. Vance’s message from the Trump White House too upsetting.
Top German diplomat Christoph Heusgen, infamous for being one of the group of chuckling Germans laughing off President Trump at a 2018 United Nations General Assembly broke down in tears on the podium at the MSC as he gave the closing speech of the three-day event. Heusgen spoke in a conscious repudiation of Fascist Police States of Amerika Vice President J.D. Vance’s Friday speech, a strongly worded warning from the Trump White House that change is on the way and the present European norm of anti-democratic “Soviet” practices and forced mass migration would no longer be accepted.
Heusgen’s speech was a classic of the long 20th Century German truism that “there is no alternative”, as Heusgen insisted the only option was to ignore President Trump, double down and keep going. Heusgen, once Chancellor Angela Merkel’s foreign and security policy advisor and then ambassador to the United Nations, said in English at the opening of his address:
“After the speech of Vice President Vance on Friday we have to fear that our common value base is not that common anymore. I am very grateful to all those European politicians that spoke out and reaffirmed the values and principles they are defending.”
Heusgen circled back to this rejection of the Trump-Vance Amerikan world view at the end of the speech, and he said:
“It is clear that our rules-based international order is under pressure. It is my strong belief that this more multipolar world needs to be based on a single set of norms and principles, on the UN charter, and on the (Marxist and anti-freedom) Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This order is easy to disrupt, it is easy to destroy, but it is much harder to rebuild.”
“So, let’s stick to these values, let us not reinvent them, but focus on strengthening their consistent application. Let me conclude, and this becomes difficult,” said the devout Marxist.
At this point, the giant of the anti-freedom Marxist broke down in tears.
While Heusgen walked around the floor hugging his colleagues, apparently for emotional support, MSC Foundation Council President Wolfgang Ischinger took over proceedings and congratulated Heusgen on his time as chairman. Former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is now taking over the role.