‘Trump will be gone in three years’: Top Democrats try to reassure Europe

(Anthony Zurcher – BBC) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was the centre of attention at the Munich Security Summit, as European leaders wondered apprehensively what tone he would strike in his remarks on Saturday. While his speech did not fully allay their concerns, it has been viewed as a reasurance to allies that while US relations may have frayed under Donald Trump, they will not break. Rubio’s was not the only American political voice at the security summit, however. And even if the secretary of state’s remarks had not been so well-received – if he had sharply criticised Europeans the way Vice-President JD Vance did at the conference last year – there were other American politicians doing their best impression of the Persian poet, counselling: “This too shall pass”. “If there’s nothing else I can communicate today,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said at a conference event on Friday, “Donald Trump is temporary. He’ll be gone in three years.”. Newsom was just one of dozens of American legislators and governors in attendance – including some Democrats, like the Californian, who may contend for their party’s 2028 presidential nomination. – Democrats seek to reassure Europe about post-Trump America