European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker expressed outrage at United States President Donald Trump’s support for Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union by saying he would retaliate by promoting Texas’s secession from the United States.

“The newly elected U.S. president was happy that Brexit was taking place and was asking other countries to do the same,” Juncker told delegates at a conference in Malta. “If he goes on like that, I’m going to promote the independence of Ohio and the exit of Texas.”

While Juncker’s remarks were obviously sarcastic, they came in the middle of an otherwise serious speech about the future of Europe. Russian and Chinese officials have made similar comments in the past about supporting Texan or Hawaiian secession, but this is the first time a comment like this has come from the top eurocrat.

President Juncker’s stinging response to the Trump administration reveals a deep divide between the EU and the U.S. This Atlantic rift is something that the Philadelphia Trumpet, and its predecessor the Plain Truth, have been predicting since 1934.

“Bible prophecy warns that a German-led European empire is going to rise up,” Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote in October 2014. “We have said for over 50 years that it will probably be more powerful than both America and Russia! The age of American global leadership is drawing to a close. While the Germans might not come out and say so, they are reveling in that fact. The U.S. may try and repair relations with its former lover, but irreversible damage has already been done. The breakup, which started with the [U.S. National Security Agency spying scandal of 2014], is going to continue to worsen until one of America’s greatest allies since World War ii becomes, once again, its greatest enemy!”