Trump's presidential bid draws scorn and bemusement in Europe

Reuters ^ | July 31st, 2015 | By Angus MacSwan

[stars & stripes forever]

Who cares what the WORLD thinks. This is an AMERICAN election.

[Bobalu]

FU euroweenies!

Go Trump!
Go Cruz!

[DoughtyOne]

What type of person is enamored by Europe?

The Left will hate Trump. The Europe argument is lost on them. They’re already sold on Leftist ideology.

The Right appreciates some things about Europe, but recognizes it as a Socialist Continent. They dismiss political group think from there.

Granted we’re way down the Socialist path here too, but at least there is a large representation of folks who despise it. I’m not convinced that is true in Europe.

Frankly, who cares what Europe thinks? Our ancestors left it for a reason.

[SamAdams76]

His remarks that many Mexican immigrants were rapists were widely reported in Europe and generally considered beyond the pale.

Well I take it that if we were to send boatloads of illegal Mexicans over to Europe, they'd accept them with open arms into their lovely socialist paradise.

[vbmoneyspender]

Europeans rightly scoff at our electoral system as a giant clusterfudge.

Europeans are generally left-wing idiots when it comes to politics. And as to our electoral system being a giant clusterfudge - that's a feature not a bug. The system was designed to be unwieldy in order to prevent mobs, led by demagogic politicians, from running wild.

[PATRIOT1876]

Cool! If Europe thinks he’s a bad idea, then the opposite must be true.

This is the place that our founders left because of the lack of freedom there.

Now it’s a Socialist economic wasteland, for the most part, and we would do well to ignore any of their ignorant hubris filled opinions of us.

[Qiviut]

If Trump (somehow) does become President, the Europeans will get real respectful, real quick.

[Carry_Okie]

Inasmuch as I think Trump is doing significant damage to conservatism, European media and governments reacted the same way to the Reagan candidacy. They are to be wholly disregarded.

[nathanbedford]

In just a few moments ago I posted a reply to the effect that Donald Trump would caricature of us abroad but I take very little joy at this apparent vindication.

Having lived in Germany now for several years I can tell you that the state of reporting about America in Europe in general and Germany in particular is truly appalling. Imagine America without National Review or talk radio and with only the three networks and the two remaining cable channels. The result is a population that regards America in many ways quite fondly but in many other ways as an incomprehensible menagerie of Neanderthals.

I have often described going into a bookstore near my little village with a big table featuring only books about America but all of them were negative, especially about George Bush who was president at the time, and not one was positive. The uniformity of opinion here is appalling. Everyone is opposed to fracking, everyone is green, everyone opposed the war in Iraq, everybody thinks George Bush is a moron, 40% of the country thinks the CIA blew up the World Trade Center.

So it is not surprising that the left-wing media in Europe caricatures Donald Trump but it is also sad that we have someone who makes it so easy for them.

[PATRIOT1876]

* could give a rats @$$ what eurotrash thinks about our elections. *

O, please, please Mr. scooter-riding Euro-superman gliding through the trash-filled streets in the disintigrating dystopia, please tell us how to be sophisticated like you!

[Former Proud Canadian]

You are correct, Europeans do not understand American politics.

I have been a close observer of US politics since the 1960's and I am just starting to understand it.

[captain_dave]

They said the same thing about Ronald Reagan...he’s just “an actor”, blah, blah, blah.

[PATRIOT1876]

If the USA is destroyed, who's going to rescue them when a dictator like Hitler or someone like his Fan Club President, Soros, comes to power?

[stephenjohnbanker]

All true, except they have conservative newspapers and TV stations. We don’t. I read only Canadian and UK papers, as our MSM is closed to the public.

[PUGACHEV]

That’s encouraging.

[Ohioan]

This is the same way that European sophisticates—that is, people confused by sophists—reacted initially to Ronald Reagan. In a real sense, this is an unintended tribute to Trump.

[riverdawg]

“Greece is an economic train wreck, but it’s not their electoral system that’s to blame”

Well, the Greek electoral system produced decades of stagnant growth and a runaway welfare state, long before Greece adopted the Euro. To what do you ascribe Greece’s recurring economic and political crises?

[Bluewater2015]

Does no one over there have the courage to point out — that their Muslim immigrants are rapists?

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Sweden is a sad example of that.

[trebb]

More of the right enemies only serves to enhance his credentials - so many hate success because they lose credibility via their attempts to stifle it.

Love what Trump is doing but donating to Cruz.

GO CRUZ!!!

[TalBlack]

Oh HELL YEAH! The Donald is almost PRECISELY the self satisfied American goofball Sam Clemens made a living putting into print and pissing everyone off with.