'Watch him sweat': Europe reportedly sharpens knives as it sees 'self-destructive' Trump

Jakob Hanke Vela, the bureau chief at the German economics paper Handelsblatt, has been chatting with European trade officials in recent days who are holding off on launching a counterattack to President Donald Trump's trade war — largely because they believe he's sufficiently hurting himself.

Writing on X, Vela relayed some of the whispers he's been hearing from European officials who are amazed as Trump takes a wrecking ball to his own economy.

"Nobody in the Commission thought that...