Perhaps it’s time to rehash an old Soviet joke, with switched roles:

European: I can walk into the Berlaymont building, I can pound the president’s desk, and I can say: “Mrs. President, I don’t like the way you’re running the EU.”
American: I can do that.
European: You can?
American: Yes. I can go into the White House to the Oval Office, I can pound the desk and say: “Mr. President, I don’t like the way President von der Leyen is running the EU.”