I don't think the current US administration understand the EU.

There are some things where I have my doubts about the current actions of the European countries, like rearmament. Will that be dropped the minute a new US administration enters? What the EU does well, like really well, is trade and bureaucracy. It is, in my mind one of the few areas where the EU can absolutely run circles around the US, while managing to protect and isolate itself from the worst fallout. We've already seen this with the current EU tariffs, they are extremely precise and targets Republican votes at almost no cost to EU consumers. I think that will continue, rather than imposing broad tariffs, the EU will target things Trump care about specifically.