There appeared to be only one fact lawyers for the European Commission and Google both agreed on in a recent, six-hour hearing before the EU’s top court—that the judges would write history with their judgment, whichever way it went.

Both Google, advised by multiple law firms, and the Commission, advised by its own internal legal department, appeared to invoke words and actions made by U.S. President Trump during his first week in office, each using them to emphasize the stakes of the case, which revolve around the largest antitrust fine in EU history to date.