We lived in Europe during the first Reagan administration and the Herald Tribune nearly ran out of ink every day trying to defeat him. Demonstations against the missiles..reruns of his..the bombing starts etc. Just a cowboy from Hollywood.
The Europeans just don't like real Americans much. They are also anti semitic to the core. The worst verbal anti semitic comments I heard in my life came out of the French and the Germans.
We shouldn't worry what they think of us.
It's because all the best ones left some time ago and their progeny grew up to be #1, and deep down in their hearts they know it just as well as we do.