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The population elected Trump. TWICE. The second time with more votes and winning the popular vote.
Like it or not, Trump represents the USA in the minds of people around the world for at least a generation.
Trump won by a very slim percentage. And that was because most people didn't bother voting. So no it was not the majority of people.
I bet I could lambast your country using your same logic. But you're too afraid to say which one you're from, because you know it's true.
Even if it's a slim percentage win, you have to understand that as a European looking in, it is a wildly large number that voted for him. There are only a couple of countries in Europe (and actually only a couple on each continent) that have a population larger than that. For a lot of countries it's 10x their population.
For most of us, that looks like an unfathomably massive percentage of idiocy.
If Trump got 20% of the republican primary vote, it would already be cause to mock the US.
He is an infamous dumbass. Deeply ignorant. Like, moron levels of understanding how the world works. Hurricane nuking levels of understanding. Plus immoral, having lost racsims lawsuits in previous century (so not politically motivated), cheating on his wives, cheating on his taxes. But so, so, dumb, and so easily manipulated. Plus he looks funny, but just a unimportant details that's true for a surprising amount of right wing politicians (milei, Boris Johnson, etc).
He was the literal counter-example of who should be president. It's hard to think of someone less suitable. Maybe Kanye West? Snooki?
Not only he did win the primary, but he won the general election. Twice. After such a disaster with covid. They haunted Clinton for years for 4 dead Americans that weren't even her fault. Trump caused hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths, tanked the economy, did a bunch of crimes, tried to overthrow the government, announced he would be a dictator and people still voted for him. Mind-blowing.
Add the people who actively voted for Trump and those who couldn't be bothered to vote against him and you do have the majority of the country who is to blame for the shitshow that is currently wrecking the country and shredding whatever international reputation your country had.
We know that about 30% voted against this shit (and we thank you for that effort), but thw reality is that you have a fight on your hands if you hope for the rest of the world to look favorably on your country again.
And, despite 50501 and a small number of outspoken Democrat senators (Bernie, AOC), we don't see much fighting back yet.
You say this like it doesn't reflect just as bad as those who did vote for him