Liebe Verbündete Amerikas, bitte verwechseln Sie unseren Präsidenten nicht mit uns: Wir versuchen unser Bestes, ihm zu widerstehen, ihn einzudämmen und ihn so schnell wie möglich aus dem Amt zu entfernen. Vielen Dank für Ihre Geduld
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/19/donald-trump-american-ally
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Please do so before he sets the globe on fire
Nobody is confused, he does represent you. All your apathetic citizens, all your Republican MAGA voters and all your billionaires. And some of you, I assume, are good people.
The usual.. it’s not the Russian people, its the government doesn’t apply here. America has a free vote. We voted for this twice.
No disrespect, but are you really? Because mostly, I see apathy
Why are we pretending like American exceptionalism wasn’t a thing before trump? He’s just acting on values that many Americans believe in. He’s just taking it to its most honest expression.
As a Canadian, look at the softwood lumber dispute between Canada and the US and how many times independent bodies have ruled the Americans to be wrong, but they keep bullying their actions forward anyways.
I feel for liberal Americans, that you’re now living under a government that has removed all of the soft blankets covering your government’s often terrible behaviour. But don’t pretend y’all were perfect before trump.
It’s not enough. Everyone who voted for him or didn’t vote at all is complicit.
You let it happen once and we gave you the benefit of the doubt. Then you went and did it again. It’s who you are as a country and the trust is simply gone. Get your affairs in order and we can talk.
Do something about it.
I sympathise but you need to sort this shit out
This ain’t 2017. We no longer get to claim to be innocently duped. We no longer get to say, well he lost the popular vote. We chose this. We chose this hard. And allies will be right to not trust the American voter again for a long, long time.
Nope. Much like respect, which is earned and not given, so is trust. I can’t speak for everyone; but everyone I know has completely lost trust in the USA. You fucked up in 2016 by electing him when you knew who he was; but then to compound things you voted him into a second time in 2024. You elected him despite all the criminal proceedings against him, his lying, his incompetence, his inability to understand how the world works, after he incited a riot, told his VP to ignore the electoral college, after all this, you still voted him in a second time.
It’ll be a cold day in hell before I trust the USA again, let alone step foot in it. I avoid buying anything that comes from there if I can. Sometimes it costs me a few dollars more; but better the money go to somewhere that doesn’t threaten its allies, impose tariffs on nations because he’s having a bad morning.
Trust in the USA is a ship that has sailed and I don’t see it coming to port for a very long time.
If you can’t contain him, why should we be „allies“? I can be friends with people from every region, but allies are between states against other states. So what for and against who?
If you are talking only about the government, I’d rather want allies against the USA.
If you are talking only about the people, independent of any geostrategies…I’d still rather be allies with the Chinese people, sorry. But I’d be happy to ignore Americans, if you make it possible to ignore you. Do your „resist against tyranny“ thing, instead of whining online.
After this run, no country will ever trust America the same way again. The damage is irreparable.
He’s your president. I need less apologies and more overthrowing the government to fix this shit, please.
Nah, he absolutely does represent us. He won twice, and only arguably lost in 2020 because of Covid. He’s representing a large amount of Americans and you can argue that he only won off of apathy of opposed voters, but in their apathy they have ceded their voice, and the Americans who spoke said Trump’s name.
This is our bed as a nation and we don’t get to just pass the buck and pretend there aren’t and shouldn’t be consequences for our nation. It’s not the world I want, but it’s the one we have.
These mewling apologies are just begging the rest of the world to trust us to not fuck up again and maintain the US’s dominance for us and pretend everything is normal again, and that worked when Trump could be a one term fluke, but not a two term one. Americans wanted what he was selling, and even if they got duped, they still picked it. The rest of the world should never count on us to maintain the rules based status quo because it’s clear we can’t be good stewards of it anymore, because the people who voted for this will keep voting for it until they are dead.
Try more
American here…
Yeah this isn’t going to work. 2016 could be a mistake. The UK did Brexit, we weren’t alone.
2024 was a fucking doubling down.
We own it. We own all of it.
Trump is a symptom.
Just as I thought – Americans will just shift all blame on the old geezer and proceed like nothing happened and they didn’t participate in this.
Patience is running thin
America elected him for a *second* term
as a very slightly better president once said
*“Fool me once, shame on… shame on you. Fool me—you can’t get fooled again!“*
Maybe your problems extend beyond just Trump…
you have a supreme court that decided a president has presumptive immunity in all official acts
and a congress too cowardly to undo Trumps tariffs or his war in Iran.
Nah. This is who we are. We showed you. Believe it.
The problem is that things aren’t just „going to go back to how they were“ once this sack of shit croaks/is removed from office.
The damage done is going to take decades to undo, and regain other nations‘ trust.
Yeah… turns out alot of people in gov right now like diddlin kids.
I mean no we really aren’t. This is exactly what half the country asks for. Even the ones vehemently against the war simply switched their views when told so. We’re a lost country that went back to the well after we knew what it was.
This is the wrong take. We have collective responsibility for this and until it’s fixed it’s pointless to try to argue you’re one of the good ones.
I feel bad for the people who didn’t vote for this, but fuck America for letting this happen despite the grave warnings.
Fuck everyone who voted for him and fuck those who didn’t bother to vote. He would be in prison today instead of pillaging tax payer money if it wasn’t for these people.
You can’t write this when he has a floor of 30% approval and a whole lot more will happily vote R in the next election anyway for candidates that might very well be worse than he is.
What is “trying our best?”. Most people are doing basically nothing.
I don’t belive you. I am tired of abusive relationships.
I’m American and I cannot stand these “oh don’t blame us the people” kind of posts.
Gang, I didn’t vote for him, I am progressive from a progressive state. I hate to break it to my fellow Americans, whether you like Trump or not he and his cronies and his voters represent us. We do not get to decide how the world views us.
He has started a war, he has kidnapped a sovereign country’s president, he has enabled ICE to kidnap immigrants and citizens alike.
Stop asking the world not to judge us and go do something. Vote local for the right people, vote state for the right people, protest, exercise your rights while you have them.
We cannot keep begging the world especially those who are directly affected by our country’s decisions to not judge us. I think a lot of people can discern that the average citizen ≠ Trump, but it’s a lot harder to feel empathy for the average American when we got him in power TWICE.
And when I say we got him in power I mean it, you might not have voted for him, but our policy makers, laws, and media played a huge part in his wins.
Seriously can we stop whining and begging and start doing something? It’s never the whiners I see out protesting or tracking ICE.
OP, I’m afraid that simply won’t matter to the rest of the world. We can disavow him as much as we like, but the harsh reality is that he is in fact president and unless and until something is done about it, other nations have a duty and a right to protect themselves from this madman. Hopefully the midterms are a turning point one way or another.
But we already know that he’s just a symptom of a far bigger problem. You need to get money out of your politics. You need to keep billionaires away from your media. I know its an impossible ask, but those are the things you should fight for or there will just be another Trump, and another, and another.
Trying your best? It doesn’t seem like anybody does anything that actually brings change. Marching on saturdays, going to work as usual and whining on social media doesn’t matter at all. Even the political opposition seems paralyzed, memes and soundbites is completely meaningless.
Americans have been told *they* are exeptional their entire lives, next to nobody are willing to sacrifice things that actually affects *them*, and the world suffers from it.
We don’t want your fucking apologies, this is the bed *you* made and forced everybody else to lay in.
This is a delusional take. It’s time to come to terms with the fact that this is American. This is the America that people voted for. Those in a position to actually resist are bought and paid for by either corporations (who somehow have been granted the same rights as people in our country) or Israel. They are paper tigers. They were the ones that confirmed all of these cabinet picks, they are the ones who actually have any power to do anything and they are complicit.
lol what a stupid cringe article. He’s been literally fucking the world up non stop and none of us non Americans had a choice on the matter. Don’t go asking for patience when you guys fucked it up twice. The rest of your government is also incredibly ineffective at doing anything, to the point where I have to assume some are silently happy this is happening.
As an American: Fuck this article. They make it sound like it was a temporary lapse in judgement. That isn’t the case. You could make this argument back in 2016, but not today. It’s been a decade of this, we don’t get to try to act like it was a mistake or we are still good people. A third of this country voted directly for him, and another third sat on the sidelines while it happened. When two fucking thirds of your population supports a temperamental pedo being president, you don’t get to act like everything is fine and we are doing our best. Articles like this are super dangerous because they don’t just make us seem like we are doing our best, but because they erode the sense of responsibility, especially among the third that sat their fat fucking asses at home and let this happen.
Our allies can and should never forget this. Even if we elect sane leaders again, we are always just four years away from potentially electing another trump, and no country should trust that.