Trump Sparks Backlash With Bizarre Claim Europe Would Speak 'A Little Japanese' Without U.S. Help

Donald Trump is stirring controversy once again—this time by taking aim at Europe for how it celebrates the end of World War II.

Earlier this month, he declared April 2 as 'Liberation Day' in his effort to 'Make America Great Again.'

Yet, oddly enough, he also referred to the U.S. as a 'stupid country' around the same time.

And just when it seemed like he might keep the controversy local, Trump expanded his comments to include a swipe at Europe as well.

On May 15, during a speech to U.S. troops based in Qatar, Trump made another head-turning statement as part of his Middle East visit.

He said: "A week ago, May 8, I call up a certain country and they say, 'Oh we're celebrating the victory of World War Two today'."

"And I say, 'Oh okay'."

From there, Trump's speech only became more extreme and puzzling.

Trump continued: "I speak to one of the presidents or prime ministers or whatever. And they were so busy, 'Oh yes we're celebrating the victory of WW2'. And I speak to another one and they're celebrating."

"And the fact is Russia was celebrating, France was celebrating, everyone but us."

"And we're the ones that won the war. We won the war and they help, but without us they don't win the war, we're all speaking German - without us they're speaking German and maybe a little Japanese too."

And then, as if the message wasn’t clear enough, he decided to target France directly.

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He added, as quoted by Euro News: "I think we did a little more to win the war than France did. Now, we love France, right? But I think we did a little more to win the war than France. Do we agree? I don't want to be a wise guy, but when Hitler made a speech at the Eiffel Tower, I would say that wasn't exactly ideal."

Putting on a French accent, Trump went on to mock French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron: "'Donald, we are celebrating our victory over the Germans'."

"I said, 'What the hell?' Every country I've spoken to in the last week is celebrating the war but us. Isn't that terrible?"

Wrapping up his comments, Trump said: "We won the war and we're the only ones who didn't celebrate, so what I did, is I got my crack staff over there and we did it every time we had May 8 and we also have the date in November, that sacred date in November for World War One, because we won that war too."

As a result, he's now dubbed both May 8 and November 11 as days to commemorate U.S. victories in the two world wars—replacing the usual meaning of Veteran’s Day, according to People.

And of course, it didn’t take long for the internet to respond.

One person on Twitter summed it up bluntly: "And this is why Europe wants nothing to do with the US."

"Without France, Americans would still be drinking Her Britannic Majesty's tea," another user chimed in.

And someone else put it plainly: "Trump is a moron."