Dear World: Most Of Us Can’t Stand Him, Either

As the USA goes full-tilt into alienating just about every other country on the planet, here’s something the world might not know (but should) about Donald J. Trump, Aspiring Emperor:

Most Americans loathe him just as much as you do.

He has never won a majority of votes in any U.S. presidential election. Not once. Not ever. Not close, really. Most American voters oppose him – and have for three straight elections.

Even in 2024 – a year when Trump allegedly won a “mandate,” according to the limp-dick media narrative – he fell short of a majority. Here were the 2024 popular vote totals:

• Against Trump: 77,897,589 votes (50.2% of the total)
• For Trump: 77,303,568 votes (49.8%)

Trump got nearly 600,000 fewer votes than the other candidates, which included Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and various third-party nobodies. In the 2020 election, Trump got 7.1 million fewer votes than Joe Biden. In 2016, he got 2.8 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton.

Over the course of three presidential elections, Trump fell short of the majority by an aggregate of some 13 million-14 million votes. When you count the millions of registered voters who didn’t even bother going to the polls because they couldn’t stomach Trump or any of the other candidates, the anti-Trump brigade balloons even larger.

The guy is not popular in the United States – not by a long shot. He has the lowest approval rating of any recently elected president ever (well, except for Trump 1.0).

The fact that he technically “won” two of those elections is a testament to the lunacy of the U.S. electoral system. I won’t go into that here. Read this instead.

A corrupt, unqualified and infantile boob like Trump should not get within two galaxies of the White House, let alone walk in as an elected president. But that’s what happens in a two-party system. One of the candidates usually has about a 50-50 shot at winning – especially these days.

Trump became a Republican party nominee three elections in a row only because that party has veered off into an abyss of greed, cult worship, fake Christianity, racism, delusion, xenophobia, cruelty, bigotry, stupidity, cowardice, more stupidity, and even more stupidity.

There is literally no low Trump can stoop to that the Republican party will push back against. They are that hypnotized, that cowardly. I mean, read this recent social media post from Trump, in which he lashes out at a federal judge who had the temerity to oppose Trump’s desire to break the law:

“This Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, was not elected President – He didn’t WIN the popular VOTE (by a lot!), he didn’t WIN ALL SEVEN SWING STATES, he didn’t WIN 2,750 to 525 Counties, HE DIDN’T WIN ANYTHING! I WON FOR MANY REASONS, IN AN OVERWHELMING MANDATE, BUT FIGHTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MAY HAVE BEEN THE NUMBER ONE REASON FOR THIS HISTORIC VICTORY. I’m just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do. This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!”

Hoo boy. Where do you begin? Apart from the lies – Trump did not win the popular vote by “a lot,” he did not win an “overwhelming” mandate – there is the grade-schooler use of ALL CAPS and EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!! to drive his points home. There is the brat-boy tantrum, the paranoia, the use of “Hussein” in Barack Obama’s name in a not-so-subtle racist dig at anyone whose name is not John or Mary, Denise or Ed, Beth or Jim.

This is not the way a mature adult acts, let alone a president. It’s what you’d expect from a 12-year-old with a martyr complex and too much time on his hands.

And yet….

Trump’s base just loves this kind of incoherent, drooling, wild-eyed rubbish. They can’t get enough of it. The more deranged he gets, the more they love him. This is what happens when you turn your brain off and your anger on. Just ask 1930s Germany how that turned out….

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The world is sick of America. Well, much of the world. Well, most of the world. Even Canada maybe hates us. Canada! The nice neighbor who always picks trash up off our lawn, and calls when we’re not feeling well, and lends a helping hand when we’re down and out.

Trump has started trade wars not only with China, but also with America’s two neighbors: Canada and Mexico. He has imposed stiff tariffs on these major trading partners – and they have responded in kind. This has sent the stock markets into a nervous breakdown and will likely lead to higher consumer prices here in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Trump keeps making noise about annexing Canada and turning it into the “51^st state” – a laughable notion that Canada has no interest in, but that Trump and his acolytes keeping going on about. He threatens to annex Greenland. He threatens to “take back” the Panama Canal. He threatens to turn Gaza into a U.S.-controlled resort by sending a couple million Palestinians packing.

He has all but destroyed decades of trade and defense relationships with western Europe by whining about trade deals and embracing the tyrant Putin. He has said that South Africa’s ambassador is no longer welcome in the U.S., for reasons that seem unclear, but probably have something to do with that South African-born dipshit Elon Musk, who has been put in charge of gutting the U.S. government, and who probably wants South Africa to return to apartheid.

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Look, let’s be honest: America has never been especially popular. It almost always ranks among the most hated countries in the world. That’s to be expected, considering it’s one of the biggest and wealthiest. Nobody loves Goliath – and America is Goliath.

America is loud, pushy and demanding, eats too much, spends too much money, uses too many natural resources, causes too much pollution, and tries to control too much of the global dialogue. It sends its military to the four corners of the earth to do whatever it is that militaries do. Its corporations keep churning out products and brands that you’ll find pretty much everywhere.  

One thing I learned as an expat living in London is how complicated America’s relationship is with much of the rest of the world. People love and embrace our culture – the music, films, literature, food. But many hate our attitude, our aggression, our self-righteousness. Plenty of other countries are aggressive and self-righteous. But they’re not Goliaths, so nobody much cares.

We lived in London from early 2018 through mid-2023. Three of those were Trump years – and Europeans, by and large, could not stand that two-legged turd. The attitude changed for the better when Biden took over, but only by degrees.

I was so naive about how even our closest neighbors viewed America. I would walk into a Mexican restaurant in London and let the servers know we were from the U.S., thinking maybe they’d be happy to see a fellow North American. But nah. They didn’t give a shit. They would have been more impressed if I were from Madrid. The same with Argentinians or Thais or Nigerians or whoever.

I thought some of the criticism aimed at Americans, if not America, was unfair. Every American is different, so you can’t paint all of us with the same brush. I always got a little annoyed by Brits who disapproved of U.S. aggression, considering that Great Britain colonized much of the world – including America.

Things have only worsened since then. It’s not just that much of the world hates and/or fears and/or resents the USA. It’s that much of the world no longer trusts the USA – even its oldest and dearest friends. This is what happens when you make it a policy to antagonize others. I don’t see that trust returning anytime soon, if ever.

Like any mobster, Trump is willing to kill his friends and kiss his enemies if it means expanding his syndicate’s power and wealth. He’ll sever decades-old alliances if he can squeeze an extra nickel out of new alliances. Never mind that the new alliance will piss on Trump’s grave the second his usefulness runs out.

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If you want a more personal take on all this, here’s something:

I have never visited Canada. Do you believe that? I’ve spent decades living in the U.S, but have never visited a country right next door (same with Mexico, by the way. While living in Los Angeles many years I could have driven to Tijuana in a couple of hours, but never made the trip. Silly me).

We had planned to visit Montreal this summer. It’s about a five-hour drive from where we currently live. We looked forward to it. But now? I’m not so sure. Canada is angry angry angry at America right now.

They boo our national anthem at sporting events. Nice Canadian YouTubers who specialize in vintage radio repair suddenly release videos taking America to task – and go from a few hundred views to more than half a million.

Nobody should ever be an enemy of Canada. How can you be an enemy of Canada?

But here we are – thanks to Donald J. Trump, a second-rate real estate hustler who is not even popular in his own country, but who has somehow taken control of the steering wheel once again, and seems determined to drive us all right off the cliff.

But we won’t let him. No, we will not. We won’t let him. We won’t let him.

We won’t…..

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