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  1. This is kind of a shitty headline.

    They don’t mean scrutiny in the same way that the Trump administration is actively checking visitors’ social media for criticism of Dear Leader, they mean how foreigners in general often want to talk about and criticize Trump when they recognize Americans abroad, and are sometimes a bit rude about it.

    Seems fair, if you ask me.

  2. I’m a Canadian traveling in the Netherlands right now and I’m getting pretty sick of being mistaken for an American. Immediate change of attitude as soon as I identify myself as not-American

  3. TreeofLibertyFood on

    Went to Italy, France and Monaco a month ago and we got asked a lot about how we are doing and what is going on in the US. All we could say was “the people embarrassing us right now don’t really travel. We’re some of the good ones, believe us!!!”

  4. Goddamn right. Trump voters have ruined America’s reputation and should be subjected to scrutiny and shunning abroad

  5. HowardBunnyColvin on

    I’m about to head out to Madrid in 2 days and I don’t look forward to being pestered about it in Spain lol. Just gonna mind my own business. Yeah he’s around but I didn’t vote for him and we’re stuck with him for 3 more years so it is what it is

  6. Yep. Was appropriately ashamed of America for 8 years under Bush. Am appropriately ashamed of America for 8 years under Trump.

    People think he’s a dumb garbage monster because he’s a dumb garbage monster.

  7. RecordingBoothHermit on

    I’m taking a trip to Japan in February. I cannot wait to talk shit about this cyst of an administration to anyone who wants to get into it.

  8. I was in London and Paris in August and no one treated us differently. Everyone was very friendly.

  9. root_fifth_octave on

    There were definitely some polite inquiries on my last trip. People want to know what the hell we’re thinking.

  10. FluffyPantsMcGee on

    Don’t pretend to be Canadian. Just own your shit, admit the mistakes America made and go about being a decent human being. 

  11. A MAGA voter should absolutely welcome being questioned like this if they find themselves in another country. Indeed – it’s exactly how they want to treat anyone that doesn’t look like them or have a gold cross around their fucking necks in America.

  12. I have a clean conscience. I didn’t vote for him. I voted straight blue since 08

    But half these maga scum lie 

  13. Dry_Personality8792 on

    It’s pretty easy to tell…..

    it’s exactly like picking out a maga dude in a crowd. Fairly easy.

  14. Three_Froggy_Problem on

    I truly hope that the majority of people in democratic nations abroad are horrified by what they’re seeing in America, because my biggest fear is that we’ll see a huge wave of far-right leadership across the globe.

    If Trump’s administration turns more people abroad against far-right politics, then at least it will have had some unintentional positive effect. I want to believe that the US is largely an aberration and doesn’t represent a larger global regression toward inequality, religious extremism, science denial, etc.

  15. disposable_account01 on

    What a stupid question. The vast majority of Trump voters took their first trip out of the trailer park to go to one of his rallies.

  16. ApparentlyEllis on

    I travelled to Cuba in Feb and March of 2017. I was constantly asked what I thought of Trump. Everyone I encountered liked Obama and thought Trump was an idiot or a psycho. The average Cuban is more informed than a huge swath of the US electorate.

  17. LordBloodraven9696 on

    Going to Amsterdam Thursday can’t wait to tell everyone how much I didn’t vote for him.

  18. I remember watching this tiktok video of a MAGAt who went to Mexico for a few days to get some dental work done because it was too expensive in the States. Honestly, I hope the Mexicans spat in her coffee and shat in her food cuz clearly these brainded freaks don’t understand the 10 levels of irony and hypocrisy in what they do. Any and every American who goes abroad should be forced to give proof of vaccination and made to justify their voting history, or lack thereof. 

    Canadians also need to call out Americans who keep pretending they’re Canadians when they visit other countries. Be proud of your heritage and politics; don’t be shy.

  19. This was definitely a thing during his first term too. But, I imagine much worse during this shit storm dumpster fire.

  20. Good. Fuck em. You want to be antisocial no one else owns your the reciprocity you don’t give

  21. Can confirm. Traveled in Germany for a few weeks. Any amount of casual conversation would turn to the “who did you vote for” angle. The folks with questions were earnestly wanting to know just how such an immoral and vacuous simpleton could get so much support. I didn’t sense anger very much. Just disbelief and disappointment.

  22. The idea of Trump supporters going to other countries to enjoy life there is just astoundingly hypocritical.

  23. quantumoflogic on

    Most non-Americans view Trump a bit like a toddler holding a gun. We will tell the toddler anything they want to hear to try and avoid the gun going off (which seems to be why Trump thinks he is “respected”) and we are trying to collect as much support as possible to contain the problem. If you look at any interaction through the “toddler with a gun” lens, it will help things make sense.

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