A majority of people surveyed had an overall negative perception of the U.S., marking a steep decline from last year. America’s reputation took a particularly massive hit in EU countries — perhaps unsurprisingly, as U.S. President Donald Trump has called the bloc “horrible,” “pathetic” and “formed to screw the United States.”

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    29 days ago

    You’re a casual observer who has only seen the bombastic headlines from big media outlets and haven’t actually followed the political situation in the USA for the past decade

    Those are some bold and ignorant assumptions, but expected coming from an American.

    When you don’t like Trump and his regime, or the fact that even “the left” is already pretty far right itself, or the extreme inequality, the corruption, etc. then do something about it. When there are so many people who actually want change, why are people just complaining online instead of actually doing something? When Trump supporters weren’t happy they fucking stormed the capitol, and they were just a small group of weirdos. But you claim most are unhappy with Donny. But people won’t do anything more than complain online and protest in front of a Tesla dealership.

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        29 days ago

        You know what they said in 1945 in Germany? “I didn’t vote for him”, “I didn’t know”, “I was just a part of the system”, “there was nothing I could do”.

        You claim less then half voted for Trump. Of those voters there are now many with regret. That makes most unhappy with Trump. But no one does anything. But maybe the time isn’t there yet, maybe there’s time when he turns the US into a North Korea style dictatorship. Waiting for things to solve itself also helped for Germany during the 30’s right?