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There may be one simple reason that makes Donald Trump’s agenda hostile to Europe. Trump responds to compliment. Europe offers him almost nothing.

Although European leaders are sometimes trying to massage most of the most gentle -skinned men in the world, their audiences are not hidden from their contempt. Between voters in France, Germany and Spain, two -thirds say that Trump’s election Make the world less safe. Europe is very confused for Sikovanki.

Trump is certainly noticing this, just as he definitely noted a giant orange child’s balloon that was transferred on his visit and to London in 2019. His policies – the imposition of customs duties, threatens Greenland, tearing climate work, betrayal of Gaza and Ukraine – hardly targeted as residency.

The temptation of Europeans is to move forward: not only in it, but America itself. It is a short leap from deciphering the American president as a dictatorial disadvantage to diminish the audience he elected. In February, Canadian hockey fans beat the American national anthem; “Make America disappear,” made a great pisser hat. But otherwise, America’s hostility was noticeable due to its absence.

Compare this years of George W. Bush, the president who claimed that he was controlled before the suffocating over the salt, when the Americans routinely mocked as fat, ignorant and arrogant. The New York residents were made on vacation feel they are personally responsible for war crimes. On the eve of the Iraq war, the Europeans joined the difference between yogurt and Americans. The Puncline: After a while, milk develops some culture.

The French president at the time, Jacques Cherc, liked to say that he had a simple principle in foreign affairs: “I see what the Americans do and I do the opposite. In this way, I am sure to be right.” How did you laugh. This was Zenith not only from the anti -American Islamic terrorism, but from the anti -imperialist Latin American populism like Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales.

The chief of the presidency is temporary. . . America’s hostility is similar to amputation of your broken leg instead of waiting for recovery

But the hostility of America has changed in 2025. jokes about nationality are not comfortable now. It is really uncommon to blame citizens on their governments, especially if the Americans we are likely facing are the Democrats despair.

However, we linked Netflix and social media together. You can not really reject American culture when you choose to consume it daily. Go to Paris today, and see how people speak English easily. Go to London, and the puzzle in the number of fans of the American Football Association. Based on JD Vance and Pete HegSeth, the Trump team is more hostile to Europe than the European anti -America.

Those who were repelled by Elon Musk X moved to another network based in the West Coast, Bluesky. European car buyers Tesla province, but they will buy a good American alternative. Just as the most effective removal operations in Bush came from an American film director, Michael Moore, the best Trump and Mossk criticism is likely to come from the United States itself. America is a thesis and contradiction.

A diplomat also, anti -America is not appropriate for the moment. Trump has reconciled with one system that was hostile to the United States under Bush-Russia Putin-to make intermittent gestures Xavista Venezuela. The Europeans are barely in a mood hostile to imperialism: they want American protection, not withdrawal.

He studied the jungle years is that the enthusiasm of the presidency is temporary. Five and a half years after the invasion of Iraq, America was elected Barack Obama as president. America’s hostility is similar to amputation of your broken leg, instead of waiting for recovery.

But if it is wrong to mix the Americans and their boss, it is wrong to separate them completely. Trump reflects half of America. It reflects a society where the democratic majority of tolerance is prepared with mass shootings and a distorted political system. America provides a lot of cultural background in the world to the extent that we sometimes make it wrong for our country. It is not the case, even when Democrat is president.

Only last spring, during the presidency of Joe Biden, the United States was Look at an undue manner By at least half of the audience in Greece, Singapore, Australia and more than 40 percent in Britain and Canada. The next time, opinion polls ask the question, they will undoubtedly find the disappointment of Western hope.

Europeans – Canadians and others – realize that we have our own values ​​and not a long time to defend them. Philadelphia cream boycott if that makes you feel better. But most Europeans see that times are now very dangerous for American knee control.

Henry Mans is the main feature writer of FT

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