Following the implosion of U.S. President Donald Trump’s bromance with the world’s richest man Elon Musk on Thursday, European politicians indulged an emotion they haven’t felt recently toward Washington: Schadenfreude.
Radosław Sikorski, the Polish foreign minister, went for a classic rendition of the German loanword for taking delight in another’s misfortune.
“See, big man, politics is harder than you thought,” he said on X, Musk’s own social media platform. The barb was squarely aimed at the tech billionaire, who had previously called Sikorski “small man” in a war of words on X in March.