PRAGMATIC ISSUES

Every time someone from the Trump orbit sneers about “Europe’s open borders,” it’s projection, the diplomatic version of calling someone else drunk while you’re holding the bottle.

If Europe actually had open borders, half of Hollywood would’ve relocated to Tuscany the moment Trump took the oath for term two. The other half would be flooding the French Riviera, filming docuseries called “Freedom, but Make It Continental.”

But Europe didn’t open its doors because it never has. The “open borders” myth is a bedtime story Americans tell themselves to avoid facing their own chaos, mass shootings, vanishing rights, and a government that treats empathy like contraband.

The Trump administration weaponized the phrase to stoke fear, as if compassion itself were a security threat. Meanwhile, Europe built fences, surveillance zones, and bureaucratic labyrinths that make Ellis Island look like Disneyland.

So no if you wanted the truth, Europe isn’t “wide open.”

If it were, we’d be watching a full-blown American exodus, Silicon Valley’s “visionaries” sipping espresso in Berlin, influencers “finding themselves” in Prague, and washed-up reality stars buying chateaus in Provence to escape the homeland they helped break.

The only real open border here is the one between American hypocrisy and denial.