EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker appeared to issue an astonishing threat to President Donald Trump and the United States on Thursday.

Juncker — apparently still seething from Trump’s enthusiastic support for Brexit — told an audience at the European Peoples Party summit (a right-wing group within the EU parliament) on Thursday that he might campaign for Texas and Ohio to secede from the United States.

“The idea that a Belgian liberal who no one in America has ever heard of is going to influence anything in two largely conservative American states really is ludicrous.”

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“Brexit isn’t the end,” said Juncker. “A lot of people would like it that way, even people on another continent where the newly elected U.S. president was happy that the Brexit was taking place and has asked other countries to do the same,” he continued. “If he goes on like that I am going to promote the independence of Ohio and Austin, Texas, in the U.S.,” he said.

Of course, many western voters increasingly do believe a renewed focus on national sovereignty is an end to pursue. Right-wing populist and sovereigntist movements are on the rise, springing up across Europe. Brexit, once unthinkable, is now a reality. National Front candidate Marine Le Pen stands a real chance of becoming France’s next president. Even those who support the EU are beginning to reject its wholehearted endorsement of progressive liberalism and social democracy.

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At the very same EPP conference saw Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban give an impassioned defense of his country’s anti-migrant policies, while Juncker’s colleague, EU Parliament president Antonio Tajani, gave a well-received speech in defense of Europe’s “Christian values.”

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“We shouldn’t be ashamed of saying we’re Christian. We’re Christian, it is our history,” said Tajani. “If we leave our identity we will have in Europe all identities but not European identities. For this we need to strengthen our identity,” he said.

“No one makes a better case that Jean-Claude Junker is yesterday’s man than Jean-Claude Junker,” Ben Harris-Quinney, chairman of the Bow Group, the UK’s oldest conservative think tank, told LifeZette. “Whilst his remarks are flippant, they also underline his irrelevance,” Harris-Quinney said.

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“I support each U.S. state’s right to do as it pleases, but the idea that a Belgian liberal who no one in America has ever heard of is going to influence anything in two largely conservative American states really is ludicrous.”

Juncker isn’t the only Eurocrat lashing out as the momentum of populist movements grows. In fact, his comments directly followed an anti-populist tirade by Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council.

“In recent years, Europeans — from Warsaw to London, from Athens to Helsinki — have been made to believe that an integrating Europe is a threat to national and state sovereignty,” Tusk asserted.

“This is a view which is both foolish and dangerous. Our mission should be to make Europeans realize that it’s exactly the opposite,” he said.

Tusk also suggested the voices of globalism appropriate the language of populist figures in order to reduce their influence.

“Words such as security, sovereignty, dignity and pride must return to our political dictionary. There is no reason why, in public debate, extremists and populists should have a monopoly on these terms.”

What Tusk left unsaid was populists, those he calls “extremists,” were handed that monopoly by the globalists themselves, who for years have been seen as sacrificing national sovereignty and national identity on the altars of progress and profit.

“An independent review of UK legislation demonstrated that 64 percent of it originated from Brussels. That is unequivocally a loss of sovereignty from the British Parliament. Sovereignty which Brexit will now restore,” said Harris-Quinney.

But Tusk refuses to even acknowledge that the right-wing populist parties and those voting for them across Europe might have legitimate grievances. His speech was a textbook lesson in the way in which the globalist Establishment approaches right-wing populists — it dismisses them as hateful bigots while adamantly refusing to recognize any of the issues they raise.

Instead, Tusk said the claim that supra-nationalization erodes national sovereignty was “foolish and dangerous,” and claimed that populists are “building their own model of security on prejudice, authoritarianism and organized hatred.”

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Somehow in the mind of Tusk and his fellow EU apparatchiks, “for rational and responsible patriots who want to maintain sovereignty and independence of their nations and states, there is no alternative to a united and sovereign Europe.”

“It’s time all EU nations looked at the settlement they have with Brussels, and question whether they would be better off setting their own agenda at home,” Harris-Quinney said. “Were Greece and Spain able to make their own laws and set their own budgets and monetary policy, the depth of their economic crisis would likely be far reduced.”

“Tusk’s comments only underline how far from reality and the concerns of the European people both he and the EU have fallen,” he said.