Yes, under Trump this has been true. That doesn’t mean that Americans under 30 mostly believe those things. Trump believes and does some terrible things. That doesn’t mean that Americans under 30 are his supporters. They’re not.
I really don’t know why you’re talking about Americans under 30 – EP was talking to Canadians under 30, and their impressions of America as a partner.
Because it sounded to me like he was talking about American under 30. O.K., he was talking about Canadians under 30. I think they’re wrong about some things. They didn’t get their information by talking to Americans. They got it from their news and other sources within Canada. Trump is a terrible person, and most most American over all ages believe that too.
Americans let him in twice, let his administration warp the institutions, and have been fine with the seeping stain of malice and incompetence the Trump administration has brought to the public service.
All of those things will long outlast Trump. You’ve threaten us with annexation, you’ve attacked us economically, we have watched you threaten Greenland and, after seeing your military kill people clinging to debris, have no illusions they wouldn’t obey and invade us if told to.
Actions speak louder than words and it is dangerous for Canadians (and others) to forget that.
To bring this back to the point of the OP, they don’t need to get any information by talking to Americans. The US and UK (and the US and Canada) have had a special relationship for decades. When the US went into the folly of the Iraq war, the UK was by our side.
After the actions of this country over the last year (has it only been a year? Can you tear up all of our international cred in so short a time??), our actions, not what Americans think, not what’s in the news, I don’t see how any country can trust us anymore, or for the foreseeable future.
Yes. If we’re lucky a change in the US administration will start the healing process but our former allies will have to be convinced we really mean it this time, unlike 2020/2024.
Also, those who got burned will all have to pass on, and probably all those under their tutelage will have to pass into the great beyond before the needle moves much.
No, Trump did that. The majority of Americans hate that. Trump is doing things without asking for anyone to agree with him. He has been blatantly violated the law in everything he has done.
He did that (Doing things without asking for anyone to agree with him and blatantly violating the law) in his first term and was voted back into power by a majority of the population.
“Trump did that” is not going to cut it.
Yeah, I mean, I hear the best things about the Iranian people, but we’re still bombing the heck out of them. It seems as if what the leaders of a country do is what matters for international relations.
Nitpick: A majority of those who bothered to vote.
Your point stands.
The American people elected Trump in the first place, then elected the Congress that did nothing about him. Then the American people elected Trump for a second time, and the American people elected a Congress that has sat back and watched everything happen, and done nothing.
It’s been 10-12 years of Americans supposedly hating all of this and yet it keeps happening. So really given the evidence it looks a lot like Americans are fine with it and that sends a message.
The problem is with the U.S. constitution. The U.S. constitution was the first national one in the world. Many of the things in it are good and original ideas. Many of them weren’t so great. Little by little we’ve amended the constitution to fix some of those problems. Others we haven’t. The big problems we haven’t fixed is the fact that each state has two senators and each of them thus has two votes plus one vote for each representative in the electoral college (which is how the President is picked). Because of this, it’s possible for the bare majority of the population of the U.S. to hate a nominee for President and yet for him to be elected. Also, a majority of the Senate can be elected by a minority of people in the U.S.
At the moment, we have a President who was elected by a bare majority of the electoral college, a Senate with a bare majority of Republicans, and a House of Representatives with a bare majority of Republicans. Again, the majority of Americans hate Trump. In his first term, most Democratic voters thought that Trump couldn’t possibly be elected. For various reasons, including many Democratic voters not bothering to vote in 2016, he was elected. He made a mess of things. He then lost the 2020 election, because enough Democratic voters knew that they should vote. In 2024, too many Democratic voters again decided that it wasn’t necessary for them to vote. He then won again.
Talk with some actual ordinary Americans and find out how many of hate Trump.
That’s true. Other than the structure of our democracy, how we elect leaders, and what leaders we actually elect, other countries can totally trust us.
Maybe, maybe four years at a time.
Maybe not anymore, even for a few years.
Golly, American voters, this is going to be great again.
Double nitpick: Plurality. The best he’s ever done in an election but still not a majority.
Another reason that a majority of Americans hate Trump is the utter inconsistency of everything he says and does. There’s no consistency in anything. His behavior is stupid, ignorant, evil, and egotistic. He doesn’t care, and he doesn’t know how to recognize any of those tendencies. The people who he picks for the positions he can choose aren’t consistent either. He’ll take anybody who’s willing to not point out how ridiculous his positions and his choices are.
I agree that those who voted against him should not be blamed for him. After all, they took more active steps to stop him than most countries leadership bothered to do in the previous 9 years. Only to suddenly make a shocked Pikachu face when the person who we have been trying to say is not normal turns out to be not normal.
However, I think that it’s a stretch to say that the majority of Americans hate him. The election was so close that in order for that to be true, even if everyone who voted for Harris hated him, you’d have to assume that more than half of the people who didn’t vote at all hated him.
Anyway this is not a question of “blame”, it’s a question of trust, Trump elected once could be considered a mistake, Trump elected twice is a systemic problem.
Can anyone with a hand on his heart promise the rest of the world that the U.S. will not elect a Trumpian candidate again?.
No one other than Americans care about any of that. The beauty and majesty of the American process is irrelevant if America can mock, threaten, and attack any country at a whim.
As far as anyone else is concerned - it’s all of you.
I think it’s important for foreigners to understand how the American political system works. Yes, it should have fixed long ago. It was not fixed because the political party that did better than they deserved should have been honest and helped the other party to fix the system. People in the other party wanted to fix the system. It’s important for foreigners to understand that, because the system is messed up, the party in power at any particular moment doesn’t want to change things.